The Lively Arts of the London Stage, 1675-1725 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Lowerre, Kathryn

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Reflecting the myriad options available to London audiences at the turn of the eighteenth century, this volume offers readers a portrait of the interrelated music, drama and dance productions that characterized this rich period. By bringing together work by scholars in different fields, this cross-disciplinary collection illuminates the interconnecting strands that shaped a vibrant theatrical world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351886512
• Artikelnr.: 49354827

Autorenporträt

Kathryn Lowerre is a musicologist and an editor of John Eccles' collected works (A-R Editions). She has taught at Michigan State University, Colby College, and the University of Michigan, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction. Part I First
Music: Settings of Congreve's Judgment of Paris: The singers of The Judgment of Paris
Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson; Harmonia Anglicana or why finger failed in 'the price musick'
Robert Rawson; The 'prize musick' of 1701: a reinvestigation of the staging issue
Matt Robertson. Part II Mainpiece: The Lively Arts of the London Stage: Composing after the Italian manner: the English cantata 1700-1710
Jennifer Cable; Johann Pepusch
aesthetics
and the sister arts
Sean M. Parr; From Scaramouche to Harlequin: dances 'in grotesque characters' on the London stage
Jennifer Thorp; Music
magic
and morality: stage reform and the pastoral mode
Timothy Neufeldt; Madness 'free from vice': musical eroticism in the pastoral world of The Fickle Shepherdess
Amanda Eubanks Winkler; 'Let all be husht': songs in praise of Anne Bracegirdle and Arabella Hunt
Anthony Rooley; Burning and stoic men: mad rants and the performance of passionate pain in the plays of Nathaniel Lee
1674 to1678
Jennifer Renee Danby; Appreciating Bononcini's Astianatte (1727): an Italian opera for the London stage
Suzana Ograjenšek. Part III Afterpiece: Comedy
Farce
and Competition: The right to write; or
Colley Cibber and The Drury-Lane Monster
Melissa Bloom Bissonette; 'Quotation is the sincerest form of ...'?: signature songs as inter-theatrical references
Kathryn Lowerre. Bibliography; Index.