UID:
almafu_9960966118002883
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 423 pages) :
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illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-80010-594-0
Series Statement:
Music in Britain, 1600-2000
Content:
The reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) was pivotal for both politics and opera in Britain. In this study, Thomas McGeary brings together a wide range of sources to show how the worlds of politics and opera were entwined. The associations that Italian singing and singers acquired by the 1690s were used in partisan Whig-Tory writings. Rather than a foreign invasion, McGeary shows how the introduction of Italian-style opera was a native product that grew out of plans for a new theatre in the Haymarket. A crucial event for opera was Handel's arrival in London in 1710. While the criticism of opera by Whig writers such as Richard Steele and Joseph Addison is well known, McGeary uncovers how the early promotion and sponsorship of opera was, in fact, largely a Whig enterprise and cultural program. Indeed, major political figures (mostly Whigs) participated in the support and patronage of opera.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2022.
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Opera in the English manner --
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The infiltration of Italian music and singing --
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Italian and English singing and partisan politics --
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The Haymarket Theatre : A Whig project --
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Whigs and opera in the Italian manner --
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1710 : The year of great change in politics and opera --
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Whigs confront opera : Britain at a Machiavellian moment --
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Addison : opera and the politics of politeness --
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The Whig campaign for English opera; Handel celebrates the peace --
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Operatic works produced (or known) in London, ca. 1660-1704 --
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Principal independent theatrical masques produced in London, 1676-1705 --
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Opera performances by season in London, 1705-1714 --
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Aria types in all-sung operas produced in London, 1705-1714.
Additional Edition:
Print version: McGeary, Thomas Opera and Politics in Queen Anne's Britain, 1705-1714 Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated,c2022 ISBN 9781783277155
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781800105942
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781800105942/type/BOOK
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