Essentials in Music History
Essentials in Music History

Author: Thomas Tapper

Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.

Published: 2001-09

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0898755697

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A presentation of the essential facts in the history of music. The book will appeal to the music-lover as a simple and naturally consecutive recital of the growth of the art of music. But it is also intended for the student, and for the purpose of individual or classroom instruction the book provides sufficient material for one year's work. At the time of original publication in 1914, Thomas Tapper was Lecturer at New York University and at the Institute of Musical Art in New York, and Percy Goetschius was Instructor at the Institute of Musical Art in New York.

Handel's Israelite Oratorio Libretti
Handel's Israelite Oratorio Libretti

Author: Deborah W. Rooke

Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)

Published: 2012-02-23

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0199279284

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Combining the insights of present-day biblical studies with those of Handelian studies, this book examines the libretti of ten of Handel's Israelite oratorios and evaluates the relationship between each libretto and the biblical story on which it is based.

The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Athaliah
The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Athaliah

Author: Jean Racine

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 0271052481

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"An English translation, in iambic pentameter couplets, of The Fratricides, a play by seventeenth-century French playwright Jean Racine"--Provided by publisher.

Jean Racine
Jean Racine

Author: John Sayer

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9783039109258

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This first biography of Racine in over half a century for an English-language readership also traces the impact of Racine over three centuries in England as well as France. The plays and their reception are reviewed, using contextual approaches as part of each phase of Racine's life-story, with excerpts and quotations translated. Racine's upbringing and work as poet and historiographer are related to the France of Louis XIV, to audiences and to advancement for this 'man from nowhere', with parallels in Britain and elsewhere. Changing attitudes to Racine are traced across the centuries, across literary movements and on stage, including recent productions. The book provides insights in the specialist field of Racine studies and seventeenth-century French literature and theatre, in comparative literary studies, particularly between France and Restoration England, and to the interaction of Racine and European cultural movements to the present day.