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Words and Music in Henry Purcells First Semi-Opera, Dioclesian: An Approach to Early Music Through Early Theatre (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music)
Julia Muller
Hardcover. Edwin Mellen Press 1990-02.
ISBN 9780889464957
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Förlagets beskrivning
Although both the complete libretto (1690) and the full score (1691) of
Henry Purcell's first semi-opera "The Prophetess" or, "The History of
Dioclesian" have been preserved, the work has tended not to be fully discussed.
In this study its relationship to the play of the same name by John Fletcher
and Philip Massinger (1622) and in particular the "Alterations and Additions
After the Manner of an OPERA" by Thomas Betterton, actor-manager of the Dorsert
Garden Theatre, come under scrutiny. A line-by-line comparison is made of the
opera with the only two published versions of the play extant, which are in the
Beaumont and Fletcher First Folio (1647) and Second Folio (1679). Double
numbering is used to aid easy reference to both notes and folios. The
alterations are shown to be classifiable under such headings as late
17th-century theatre conventions, political expediency, providing scope for
music and dance, and unification. The author uses the high degree of unification found in the text and
particularly in the music, which is dealt with separately, to show that earlier
criticism of this semi-opera as lacking coherence is unfounded. In this study the relationship of Purcell's semi-opera to the play of the
same name by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger (1622), and in particular the
"Alterations and Additions After the Manner of an OPERA" by Thomas Betterton,
come under scrutiny.
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