The Te Deum, jubilate, anthems, odes, oratorios and serenatas, as they are performed by the Philharmonic Society in Dublin, for the improvement of church musick, and the further support of Mercer's Hospital

The Te Deum, jubilate, anthems, odes, oratorios and serenatas, as they are performed by the Philharmonic Society in Dublin, for the improvement of church musick, and the further support of Mercer's Hospital PDF Author: Philharmonic Society (Dublin, Ireland)
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Category : Church music
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Handel and Maurice Greene's Circle at the Apollo Academy

Handel and Maurice Greene's Circle at the Apollo Academy PDF Author: Matthew Gardner
Publisher: V&R Unipress
ISBN: 3862346617
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 363

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The Apollo Academy, a musical club founded in 1731 by Maurice Greene and his friend Michael Christian Festing, was the performance location of various oratorios, odes and masques produced by composers in Greene's circle of friends, colleagues and pupils. Many of the works performed both in and outside the academy meetings are based on subjects such as Jephtha, Deborah and the choice of Hercules which were well known in eighteenth-century England and also attracted the attention of Handel. This long-overdue study explores these works in terms of their intellectual contexts (political, religious, social and cultural), comparing them to Handel's compositions on the same or similar subjects. Additionally, detailed source information and musical analysis of the works is included as well as a discussion of the competition between Handel and his English contemporaries in order to provide a fuller picture of the diverse musical and cultural life in London during the first half of the eighteenth century.

The Foundling

The Foundling PDF Author: Edward Moore
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874135305
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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"Finally available to modern scholars, this book is the first critical edition of these two plays by Edward Moore. The success of the initial run of Moore's sentimental comedy The Foundling (1748) was due in part to its cast, which included Susannah Maria Cibber and David Garrick, and the play continued to enjoy moderate success on the London stage. It remained popular among critics throughout the eighteenth century and was reprinted and performed regularly in the nineteenth. In the twentieth century, as the most important and the best sentimental comedy of the mid-eighteenth century, it has been generally accepted by literary historians as the bridge between the comedies of Colley Cibber and Richard Steele in the first part of the century and those of Hugh Kelly and Richard Cumberland in the last. The initial run of Moore's domestic tragedy The Gamester(1753), with Garrick in the title role, was also largely successful. From its first revival in 1771 to its last in 1871, the play was performed by Britain's finest actors and actresses - and performed more frequently on the London stage than any other Restoration or eighteenth-century tragedy." "Anthony Amberg's introduction discusses the sources and composition, production, publication and reception, and final revision of both plays. The text of The Foundling is based on Moore's holograph manuscript, that of The Gamester on the first edition. In both the author's spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and italicization have been retained, and both have been provided with full textual and explanatory notes."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

William Boyce

William Boyce PDF Author: Ian Bartlett
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443828076
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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William Boyce: A Tercentenary Sourcebook and Compendium is published in celebration of the three-hundreth anniversary of the birth in 1711 of England’s leading eighteenth-century composer. It is the first book to be devoted to a musician who more than any of his contemporaries carried the flag in the broadest sense for English music during a period that was inevitably dominated by the towering figure of Handel, who was then resident in London. By the late 19th century, however, Boyce had become generally known only as a composer of anthems and the national song, ‘Hearts of Oak,’ and as the editor of a monumental historical anthology of English anthems, Cathedral Music, which was still in use at that time. The emergent ‘Baroque revival’ led to a gradual broadening of awareness of Boyce from the 1890s onwards. Yet it was only following the initiatives inspired by the bicentenary of his death in 1979 that a significantly wider public appreciation of the quality and range of his achievements came about. Previously neglected works were revived, new recordings made, scholarly articles written, and new editions of his music began to be published. This book brings together diplomatic transcriptions of all the most significant contemporary documents relevant to Boyce’s personal and family life, his career as a composer, editor, theorist, teacher, conductor, Master of the King’s Music, and the reception history of his music. They are accompanied by critical commentaries whenever necessary. The range of sources drawn on includes memoirs, histories, diaries, letters, poems, concert programmes and related press reports, chapel royal, court and parish archives, prefaces to Boyce’s own publications of his music and those edited by others, advertisements for performances of his works and related press reports, details of his subscriptions to musical and literary works, and materials that throw light on his character and professional relationships with the poets, playwrights, churchmen and other musicians with whom he collaborated within the vibrant, burgeoning, and sometimes colourful, English musical culture of his time. The book’s ‘Catalogue of Works’ constitutes the first comprehensive listing of Boyce’s musical output to have been published, and the select, historical ‘Discography’ is the first catalogue of recordings to have been devoted to the composer’s works.

Solomon

Solomon PDF Author: William Boyce
Publisher: London : Stainer and Bell
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Category : Cantatas, Secular
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Te Deum, Jubilate, Anthem, Odes ... Performed by Philharmonic Society

Te Deum, Jubilate, Anthem, Odes ... Performed by Philharmonic Society PDF Author:
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Languages : en
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A Te Deum and Jubilate, with two anthems, from the Italian

A Te Deum and Jubilate, with two anthems, from the Italian PDF Author: Te Deum
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Languages : en
Pages : 20

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A History of Irish Music

A History of Irish Music PDF Author: William Henry Grattan Flood
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Handel and the English Chapel Royal

Handel and the English Chapel Royal PDF Author: Donald Burrows
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198162286
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 680

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This study of Handel's English church music covers well-known works such as 'Zadok the Priest', but also introduces his Chapel Royal music, the result of a close but changing relationship with Britain's Hanoverian royal family. The story of the political background is complemented by an investigation of the circumstances of Handel's performances.

International Who's who in Music and Musical Gazetteer

International Who's who in Music and Musical Gazetteer PDF Author:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 898

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