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Product Description: Throughout the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, historical events were tremendously popular as adaptations for the stage. From the Revolutionary War to the French Revolution, stage dramas brought history vividly to life through powerful vocal performances and visual spectacle...read more
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9781851244560 | Bodleian Library, December 15, 2016, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Throughout the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, historical events were tremendously popular as adaptations for the stage.
Product Description: By going into print, the ballet master, dancer, and writer on dance, Jean-Georges Noverre (1727-1810), helped to set the tone for major reforms in theatrical dance and furthered the development of a style of dramatic pantomime-ballet which would become known as ballet d'action...read more
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9781576472156 | Pendragon Pr, April 21, 2014, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: By going into print, the ballet master, dancer, and writer on dance, Jean-Georges Noverre (1727-1810), helped to set the tone for major reforms in theatrical dance and furthered the development of a style of dramatic pantomime-ballet which would become known as ballet d'action.
Product Description: Regina Mingotti was the first female impresario to run London's opera house. Born in Naples in 1722, she was the daughter of an Austrian diplomat, and had worked at Dresden under Hasse from 1747. Mingotti left Germany in 1752, and travelled to Madrid to sing at the Spanish court, where the opera was directed by the great castrato, Farinelli...read more
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9780754669364 | Ashgate Pub Co, November 28, 2013, cover price $104.95 | About this edition: Regina Mingotti was the first female impresario to run London's opera house.
Product Description: The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which ― during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ― used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a means of establishing a discourse on aspects of London life...read more
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9781138754942, titled "London Opera Observed 1711-1844" | Routledge, April 1, 2013, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: The rare material in this five-volume reset edition examines opera not simply as a genre of performance, but as a wider topic of comment and debate.
9781138754904, titled "London Opera Observed 1711-1844" | Routledge, April 1, 2013, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observâd, which takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which, during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, used the concept of âspyingâ or âobservingâ by a narrator or a rambler as a means of establishing a discourse on aspects of London life.
9781138754935, titled "London Opera Observed 1711-1844" | Routledge, April 1, 2013, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d.
9781138754911, titled "London Opera Observed 1711-1844" | Routledge, April 1, 2013, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d.
9781848931657 | Pickering & Chatto Ltd, March 31, 2013, cover price $795.00 | About this edition: The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d.
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9780895794994 | A-R Editions, June 1, 2002, cover price $87.00
Product Description: This volume is the first ever collection of Henry Purcell's opera texts. The much neglected `dramatick operas' or `semi-operas' are here edited in entirety, alongside Purcell's famous all-sung work, Dido and Aeneas, in both its 1689 form and its 1700 adaptation as a series of masques in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780198164456 | Clarendon Pr, September 21, 2000, cover price $355.00 | About this edition: This volume is the first ever collection of Henry Purcell's opera texts.
Product Description: The classic myth of Dido, as seen through the ages by artists, writers, and scholars. The story of Dido and Aeneas and their tragic love has been one of the most compelling and durable of the great classical myths. The story has led artists, writers, and musicians throughout the centuries to appropriate--and misappropriate--its elements for both artistic and political ends...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780571176991 | Faber & Faber, July 1, 2000, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: The classic myth of Dido, as seen through the ages by artists, writers, and scholars.
Product Description: This book, published to coincide with the tercentenary of Purcell's death, is the first to be devoted to the performance of his music. The contributors--all leading scholars and performers--deal with issues of performance practice relating both to playing the music and staging the operas...read more
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9780198164425 | Clarendon Pr, July 25, 1996, cover price $215.00 | About this edition: This book, published to coincide with the tercentenary of Purcell's death, is the first to be devoted to the performance of his music.
Product Description: Purcell was the greatest ornament of English music in the seventeenth century, and has been a source of inspiration for British composers ever since. But the person of Henry Purcell has seemed shadowy; in his day there were no newspapers to illuminate his career, no colour supplements to delve into Frances Purcell's sitting room...read more
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9781574670028 | Amadeus Pr, November 1, 1995, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Purcell is considered by many to have been the greatest ornament of English music in the 17th century, and has been a source of inspiration for British composers ever since.
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9781574670035 | Amadeus Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Purcell was the greatest ornament of English music in the seventeenth century, and has been a source of inspiration for British composers ever since.
Product Description: (Amadeus). A long overdue book on the master of the English Baroque, this volume contains a group of fresh, new studies on aspects of the composer's background, on his music and on performance practice. Henry Purcell has been acknowledged as one of England's greatest composers...read more
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9780931340932 | Amadeus Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: (Amadeus).
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9780931340925 | Amadeus Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A long overdue book on the master of the English Baroque, this volume contains a group of fresh, new studies on aspects of the composer's background, on his music and on performance practice.
Hardcover:
9780773491328 | Edwin Mellen Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Brand New.
Hardcover:
9780195544022 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1984, cover price $35.00
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