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Author:   Colin Timms (University of Birmingham) ,  Bruce Wood (Bangor University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.740kg
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9781107154643

ISBN 10:   1107154642
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   29 June 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of figures; Music examples; Authors and editors; Introduction; Part I. From Purcell to Handel: 1. Purcell's 'scurvy' poets Roger Savage; 2. Opera as literature and the triumph of music Martin Adams; 3. The British Enchanters and George Granville's theory of opera Wolfgang Hirschmann; 4. Lost chances: obstacles to English opera for Purcell and Handel Jeffrey Barnouw; 5. Alexander's Feast, or The Power of Perseverance: Dryden's plan for English opera and its near-fulfilment in a Handel ode Andrew Pinnock and Bruce Wood; Part II. Handel and Italian Opera: 6. Ombra mai fu: shades of Greece and Rome in the librettos for Handel's London operas Peter Brown; 7. Handel and the uses of antiquity Reinhard Strohm; 8. From Metastasio's Alessandro to Handel's Poro: a change of dramatic emphasis Graham Cummings; 9. Deidamia as an 'heroi-comi-pastoral' opera Sarah McCleave; Part III. Handel and English Works in the Theatre: 10. Seventeenth-century literary classics as eighteenth-century libretto sources: Congreve, Dryden and Milton in the 1730s and '40s Matthew Gardner; 11. 'In this ballance seek a character': the role of 'Il Moderato' in L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato Ruth Smith; 12. 'Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures': glancing and gazing spectatorship in Handel's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato Matthew Badham; 13. Accompanied recitative and characterisation in Handel's oratorios Liam Gorry; 14. Handel, Charles Jennens and the advent of scriptural oratorio John H. Roberts; Bibliography; Index.

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'The volume is well edited and clearly and attractively laid out, with footnotes, some of them quite extensive, conveniently presented on the page to which they refer. There are a few musical examples; a bibliography and an index are provided. This excellent collection of papers will be of value to anyone interested in English baroque music and its literary and theatrical connections.' Robert Manning, The Consort Early Music Journal

'The volume is well edited and clearly and attractively laid out, with footnotes, some of them quite extensive, conveniently presented on the page to which they refer. There are a few musical examples; a bibliography and an index are provided. This excellent collection of papers will be of value to anyone interested in English baroque music and its literary and theatrical connections.' Robert Manning, The Consort Early Music Journal

Author Information

Colin Timms is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham, where he held the Peyton and Barber chair from 1992 to 2012. He is also a trustee of the Gerald Coke Handel Foundation and of the Handel Institute, whose Newsletter he edits, and honorary president of the Forum Agostino Steffani. He has published extensively on Steffani, and his book Polymath of the Baroque: Agostino Steffani and his Music (2013) won a British Academy prize. In addition to works by Steffani and Stradella, he has edited Theodora for the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe and Handel's Comus for Novello. Bruce Wood is Emeritus Professor of Music at Bangor University, and Chairman of the Purcell Society. He is the author of the most recent biography of Purcell (Purcell: An Extraordinary Life, 2009) and editor or co-editor of more than a dozen volumes of music by Purcell and Blow in the Purcell Society Edition and in Musica Britannica.

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