An Account Of The Musical Celebrations On St Cecilias Day
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Author |
: William Henry Husk |
Publisher |
: London : Bell and Daldy |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 1857 |
ISBN-10 |
: ONB:+Z225502908 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Account of the Musical Celebrations on St. Cecilia's Day by : William Henry Husk
Author |
: Pippa Drummond |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 315 |
Release |
: 2016-02-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317018766 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317018761 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914 by : Pippa Drummond
A history of the English music festival is long overdue. Dr Pippa Drummond argues that these festivals represented the most significant cultural events in provincial England during the nineteenth century and emphasizes their particular importance in the promotion and commissioning of new music. Drawing on material from surviving accounts, committee records, programmes, contemporary pamphlets and reviews, Drummond shows how the festivals responded to and reflected the changing social and economic conditions of their day. Coverage includes a chronological overview documenting the history of individual festivals followed by a detailed exploration of such topics as performers and performance practice, logistics and finance, programmes and commissioning, together with information concerning the composition and provenance of festival choirs and orchestras. Also discussed are the effects of improved transport and new technologies on the festivals, sacred and secular conflicts, gender issues, the role of philanthropy, the nature of patronage and the changing social status of festival audiences. The book will also be of interest to social, economic and local historians.
Author |
: Matthew Gardner |
Publisher |
: V&R Unipress |
Total Pages |
: 363 |
Release |
: 2008-12-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783862346615 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3862346617 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Handel and Maurice Greene's Circle at the Apollo Academy by : Matthew Gardner
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.
Author |
: John William Knapp |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2019-04-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781611461619 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1611461618 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fiddled out of Reason by : John William Knapp
Fiddled out of Reason is a study of several poems spanning the life and career of Joseph Addison, who, along with John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Ambrose Philips, Isaac Watts, and many British poets of the turn of the eighteenth century, helped to cultivate a broad new current of nonliturgical "hymnic" verse that became immensely popular across that century, though it has eluded critical notice until now. The texts the book examines—Addison's St. Cecilia's Day odes (1692, 1699), his libretto for the opera Rosamond (1707), and a sequence of five hymnic works in The Spectator (1712)—precede by twenty-five years John Wesley's publication of the first hymnal for use in the Church of England. The book argues that "secular" hymnic works such as Addison's emerged alongside religio-political controversies and anxieties about British national identity, morality, and expressions of "enthusiastic" passions. Church and Tory interests largely rejected hymnic verse, claiming it would only "fiddle" unwitting readers "out of their reason" and reignite the dangerous fervor of Revolution-era Nonconformity and Dissent. As is evident from his poetry, Addison, a moderate Whig, ardently opposed this view, arguing that the hymnic could in fact be a portal to national and individual amelioration. After an introductory chapter exploring period conceptions of hymnic poetry and the highly contested term "hymn" itself, the argument proceeds through three sections to trace the hymnic's upward trajectory through Addison's early, mid-period, and mature verse. The book devotes the lion's share of its attention to the last of these three, which includes the five-poem Spectator sequence (a poem from the sequence, "The Spacious Firmament on High," will be familiar to many readers). Indeed, in addition to offering new readings of hymnic works by Dryden and Pope, Fiddled out of Reason provides the first extended critical treatment of these five important poems. Publication of the book coincides with the 300th anniversary of Addison's death and with the appearance of a new Oxford edition of Addison's nonperiodical writings.
Author |
: Paul Hammond |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 635 |
Release |
: 2020-08-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000153194 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000153193 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dryden:Selected Poems by : Paul Hammond
Dryden: Selected Poems is drawn from Paul Hammond and David Hopkins's remarkable five-volume The Poems of John Dryden, and includes a generous selection of his most important work. The great satires, MacFlecknoe and Absalom and Achitophel, are included in full, as are his religious poemsReligio Laici and The Hind and the Panther, along with a number of Dryden's translations from Horace, Ovid, Homer, and Chaucer. Each poem is accompanied by a headnote, which gives details of composition, publication, and reception. The first-rate annotations provide information on matters of interpretation and give details of allusions that might prove baffling to contemporary readers. Some 300 years after his death, Dryden: Selected Poems will enable new generations of readers to discover the poet of whom Eliot wrote: 'we cannot fully enjoy or rightly estimate a hundred years of English poetry unless we fully enjoy Dryden'.
Author |
: Paul Hammond |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 739 |
Release |
: 2014-04-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317871767 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317871766 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Poems of John Dryden: Volume Five by : Paul Hammond
This volume completes the five-volume Longman Annotated Poets Edition of the poems of John Dryden, the major poet of Restoration England. It provides a modernized text along with full explanatory annotation. The poems include Dryden's spirited translation from Ovid, Homer, Chaucer, and Boccaccio. This volume presents, in newly-edited texts and with a substantial editorial commentary, the complete non-dramatic poetry of John Dryden’s later years. It contains the full text of Dryden’s final collection, Fables Ancient and Modern, including its prose Dedication and Preface, together with a number of other poems of the late 1690s, and some posthumously published items.
Author |
: Charles Cudworth |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 1983 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521235251 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521235259 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Music in Eighteenth-Century England by : Charles Cudworth
The essays in this book are devoted to the social and intellectual background of eighteenth-century music.
Author |
: Henry Purcell |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 92 |
Release |
: 1899 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89008760068 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Three Odes for St. Cecilia's Day by : Henry Purcell
Author |
: Henry Purcell |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 92 |
Release |
: 1899 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCD:31175010783358 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Works of Henry Purcell: Three odes for St. Cecilia's day by : Henry Purcell
Author |
: John A. Rice |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2022-06-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226817101 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226817105 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Saint Cecilia in the Renaissance by : John A. Rice
"How did an unmusical saint come to be portrayed as a musician and become the patron saint of musicians and music? Until the beginning of the fifteenth century, Saint Cecilia was perceived as one of many virgin martyrs, with no obvious musical skills or interests. During the next two centuries, however, she inspired many musical works written in her honor and a vast number of paintings that depicted her singing or playing an instrument. Why did so many composers start writing music that honored her as their patron saint? In this book, John A. Rice argues that Cecilia's association with music came about in several stages, involving Christian liturgy, visual arts, and music, and fostered by interactions between artists, musicians, and their patrons and the transfer of visual and musical traditions from northern Europe to Italy. The initial chapters explore the cult of the saint in Medieval times and through the sixteenth century, when, starting in 1502, the first guilds in the Low Countries and France chose Cecilia as their patron. The book then turns to the music and the explosion of polyphonic vocal works written in Cecilia's honor between 1530 and 1620 by the most celebrated composers in Europe, as well as a group of about fifty Cecilian Renaissance motets, mostly by Northern European composers, which are brought together here for the first time. The book also explores the wealth of visual representations of Saint Cecilia especially during the Italian Renaissance, among which Raphael's 1515 painting, "The Ecstasy of Saint Cecilia," is but the most famous example, and concludes with the development of the cult of Cecilia in England. Thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated, Saint Cecilia in the Renaissance is the definitive portrait of Saint Cecilia as a figure of musical inspiration"--