English theatre music in the eighteenth century / Roger Fiske.
TITLE:
English theatre music in the eighteenth century / Roger Fiske.
By:
Publication Date:
1973
Publication Information:
London : New York : Oxford University Press,
Physical Description:
xv, 684, 16 p., leaf.: ill., music, ports.
Bibliography Note:
Bibliography: p. [641]-645.
Summary:
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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780193164024
