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Author:   Kathryn Lowerre
Publisher:   Ashgate Publishing Group (Digital)
Imprint:   Ashgate Publishing Limited
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781409455325

ISBN 10:   1409455327
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   01 March 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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; Harmonica Anglicana, or finger's failure 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: The composing of 'musick' in the English language: the English cantata, 1701-1710, Jennifer Cable; Inspired by Cecilia's fire: Johann Pepusch's The Union of the Three Sister Arts (1723), Sean 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, 1674-1678, Jennifer Renee Danby; Appreciating Bononcini's Astianette (1727): an Italian opera for the London stage, Suzana Ograjen'ek. Part III Afterpiece: Comedy, Farce, and Competition: Thr right to write, or, Colley Cibber and The Drury Lane Monster, Melissa Bloom Bissonette; 'Quotation is the sincerest form of...?: signature songs as intertheatrical references, Kathryn Lowerre; Bibliography; Index.

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...a fascinating collection of approaches to the London stage during a critical period.' -Ellen T. Harris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Author Information

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.

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