The series aims to represent all the major genres and styles of musical theater of the century, from ballad opera through melodrama, plays with incidental music, parlor entertainments, pastiche, temperance shows, ethnic theater, minstrelsy, and operetta, to grand opera. This series of sixteen volumes provides for the first time ever a comprehensive set of works from a full century of musical theater in the United States of America. Volume 1 presents the earliest works in this series of
Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater. Indeed, the two tides reprinted here were composed
in the prior century but enjoyed a currency in the early 1800s that helped
establish conventions for generations of native-born dramaturges and composers.
Moreover,
Children in the Wood 1795 and
Blue Beard 1811 are the only two works
included in this series that were fully realized abroad, and imported for
performance in the United States by musicians trained in the theaters of London.
As editor Susan Porter points out in her Introduction, like all stage works, they
were then adapted to suit the tastes of the times and places in which they were
performed. (Indeed,
Blue Beard was already an English adaptation of a French
work.)
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