This revised edition discusses all the dramatic genres of the 18th-century English theater from pantomime to opera, and vividly portrays its chief protagonists in an entertaining prose style, liberally peppered with anecdotes. In addition to covering in detail the classics of the century--such as Gay's The Beggar's Opera--Fiske provides a wealth of illustrative musical examples, appendices of surviving music, and short biographies of the main performers.

English Theatre Music in the Eighteenth Century

FISKE, Roger

Oxford University Press

The Oxford School Music Books: Junior Series: Teacher's Manual 1 (Books 1 & 2) (1954)

Arts & Photography

Firth, W.

Reynolds, G.

Fisher, R.

Dobbs, J. P. B.

Music

The Oxford School Music Books: Junior Series: Pupils' Book 2

Score Reading

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Oxford University Press Music

Score Reading (Score Reading Book 2)

<p>These books are intended for students of all ages who are interested in learning how to read an orchestral score. They are for use in conjunction with gramophone records. The two earlier books in the series (Ochestration and Musical Form) provided opportunities for score reading at a more elementary level. This third book is slightly more advanced, and covers the history of the concerto.</p>

Score Reading (Score Reading Book 3)

Score Reading (Score Reading Book 4)

Beethoven's Missa Solemnis (Masterworks of choral music)

Paul Elek

This book traces the unique attraction Scotland has had for the great eighteenth- and nineteenth-century composers. It is not about Scottish composers, but rather about the music that for two centuries was written and performed outside Scotland by musicians of other countries who had Scotland in mind. Hitherto far more has been known about this attraction in Germany and France than in Britain, but Roger Fiske here puts this right and shows how nearly all the major composers from Purcell to Brahms were affected - most notably Schubert, Mendelssohn and Bruch, but also Haydn, Beethoven, Chopin and Schumann. In particular, Dr Fiske describes the travels of Mendelssohn and Chopin in more detail than has been attempted before. There are two major influences to be found in this enthusiasm for Scotland. The first is Scotch song, a generic term commonly used in eighteenth-century England for a type of popular song. The second is Scottish literature, especially Macpherson's Ossian and the writings of Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns: Scotland influenced continental literature as well as inspiring some fine music.

Scotland in Music: A European Enthusiasm

Cambridge University Press

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