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Dance in Handel's London Operas
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Sarah Yuill McCleave
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: University Rochester Press

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Examines the pivotal role of dance in the Italian operas of Handel, perhaps the greatest opera composer between Monteverdi and Mozart. George Frideric Handel se
Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors: Colin Timms
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book is concerned with a hundred years of musical drama in England. It charts the development of the genre from the theatre works of Henry Purcell (and his
A Poetics of Handel's Operas
Language: en
Pages: 393
Authors: Nathan Link
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-03-10 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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What should we consider when thinking about the relationship between an onstage performance and the story the performance tells? A Poetics of Handel's Operas ex
The Lives of George Frideric Handel
Language: en
Pages: 537
Authors: David Hunter
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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How have Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories moulded our understanding of the musician, the man and the icon?
Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera
Language: en
Pages: 505
Authors: Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Since its inception, French opera has embraced dance, yet all too often operatic dancing is treated as mere decoration. Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera