Michael Burden - Böcker

This book is the first volume to be devoted to performing Henry Purcell's music. It deals with issues of performance practice relating both to playing the music and staging the operas. The wide range of contributors are performers and scholars (an...

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This volume is the first ever collection of Henry Purcell's opera texts. The much neglected `dramatick operas' or `semi-operas' are here edited in entirety, alongside Purcell's famous all-sung work, Dido and Aeneas, in both its 1689 form and its 1...

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Allow yourself to wallow in the misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in 'common knowledge'. Your new-found wisdom will help you to impress your friends, frustrate your enemies and win every argument. Henry VIII had six wives. Wrong! Ever...

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Henry Purcell has long been acknowledged as one of England's greatest composers. Little is known about his life beyond his official appointments and their duties, but as a musician he excelled as a servant of the Court, the Church and the theatre,...

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Purcell was the greatest ornament of English music in the seventeenth century, and has been a source of inspiration for British composers ever since. Michael Tippett, Benjamin Britten and Peter Maxwell Davies are among those who have expressed ind...

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Dido and Aeneas has been one of the most compelling and durable of the great classical myths. The material the story offers has led artists, authors and musicians throughout the centuries to appropriate - and misappropriate - the story for both ar...

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Regina Mingotti was the first female impresario to run London's opera house. Born in Naples in 1722, she was the daughter of an Austrian diplomat, and had worked at Dresden under Hasse from 1747. Mingotti left Germany in 1752, and travelled t...

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The diary of Anton Reiff Jr. (c. 1830-1916) is one of only a handful of primary sources to offer a firsthand account of antebellum riverboat travel in the American South. The Pyne and Harrison Opera Troupe, a company run by English sisters Susan a...

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Regina Mingotti was the first female impresario to run London's opera house. Born in Naples in 1722, she was the daughter of an Austrian diplomat, and had worked at Dresden under Hasse from 1747. Mingotti left Germany in 1752, and travelled t...

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This is the clearest and most straightforward biomechanics textbook currently available. By breaking down the challenging subject of sport and exercise biomechanics into short thematic sections, it enables students to grasp each topic quickly and ...

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This is the clearest and most straightforward biomechanics textbook currently available. By breaking down the challenging subject of sport and exercise biomechanics into short thematic sections, it enables students to grasp each topic quickly and ...

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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observd. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries used the concept of spying or observing by a...

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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observd. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries used the concept of spying or observing by a...

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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observd. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries used the concept of spying or observing by a...

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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observd. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries used the concept of spying or observing by a...

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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observd. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries used the concept of spying or observing by a...

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This is the clearest and most straightforward biomechanics textbook currently available. By breaking down the challenging subject of sport and exercise biomechanics into short thematic sections, it enables students to grasp each topic quickly and ...

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This is the clearest and most straightforward biomechanics textbook currently available. By breaking down the challenging subject of sport and exercise biomechanics into short thematic sections, it enables students to grasp each topic quickly and ...

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Regina Mingotti was the first female impresario to run London's opera house. Born in Naples in 1722, she was the daughter of an Austrian diplomat, and had worked at Dresden under Hasse from 1747. Mingotti left Germany in 1752, and travelled to Mad...

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Regina Mingotti was the first female impresario to run London's opera house. Born in Naples in 1722, she was the daughter of an Austrian diplomat, and had worked at Dresden under Hasse from 1747. Mingotti left Germany in 1752, and travelled to Mad...

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Acquaintances, friends, fellow artists, and even antagonists share their recollections of the acknowledged leader of the French musical avant-garde.

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This new study brings together visual images and scholarly discussion of Le Ballet de la Nuit, a major ballet de cour organised by Louis de Hesselin and first performed in the Louvre's Salle du Petit Bourbon in 1653.Le Ballet de la Nuit was notabl...

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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observd. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries used the concept of spying or observing by a...

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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, historical subjects became some of the most popular topics for stage dramas of all kinds on both sides of the Atlantic. This collection of essays examines a number of extraordinary theatrical ...

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