Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas 2nd Edition by Ellen Harris 0190861444 9780190861445

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ISBN-10 : 0190861444

ISBN-13 : 9780190861445

Author :  Ellen T. Harris  

Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of seventeenth-century England, and yet, despite its global renown, it remains cloaked in mystery. The date and place of its first performance cannot be fixed with precision, and the absolute accuracy of the surviving scores, which date from almost 100 years after the work was written, cannot be assumed.In this thirtieth-anniversary new edition of her book, Ellen Harris closely examines the many theories that have been proposed for the opera’s origin and chronology, considering the opera both as political allegory and as a positive exemplar for young women. Her study explores the work’s historical position in the Restoration theater, revealing its roots in seventeenth-century English theatrical and musical traditions, and carefully evaluates the surviving sources for the various readings they offer-of line designations in the text (who sings what), the vocal ranges of the soloists, the use of dance and chorus, and overall layout.

Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas 2nd Table of contents:

1. Synopsis: Literary and Textual Antecedents
Synopsis
The Aeneid
Seventeenth-Century Models
Language and Rhyme
2. Premiere: Place, Date, and Meaning
Allegory
William and Mary (1689)
James II (1687)
Charles II (1684)
Not Allegory
Part Two| The Music
3. The Tenbury Manuscript: Discrepancies and Omissions
Textual discrepancies
Prologue
Choruses and Dances
4. Musical and Dramatic Structure
5. Musical Declamation
6. Ground Bass Techniques
Part Three| Performance History
7. The Late Eighteenth Century: Revival and Adaptation
Late Eighteenth-Century Sources
Musical Adaptation
8. The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Scholarly Editions and Added Accompaniments
Editions and Performances
Reorchestrations
9. Twentieth- and Twenty-First–Century Interpretations: The Early Music Movement and Postmodernism
Historically Informed Practice I (1951–80)
Historically Informed Practice II (1980–1995)
Postmodernism (1995–2016)
Bibliography

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