
Pasticcio and Temperance Plays in America
Il Pesceballo (1862) and Ten Nights Volume 8
Dale Cockrell(Editor)
Routledge (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 1. November 1994
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-8153-1380-9 (ISBN)
Description
The series aims to represent all the major genres and styles of musical theater of the century, from ballad opera through melodrama, plays with incidental music, parlor entertainments, pastiche, temperance shows, ethnic theater, minstrelsy, and operetta, to grand opera. This series of sixteen volumes provides for the first time ever a comprehensive set of works from a full century of musical theater in the United States of America. The two works in this volume seemingly have little in common. They reflect the society in which they were created in quite different ways. Il Pesceballo is an intelligent and subtle parody of operatic conventions, closer to the tradition of literary burlesque. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room is a play with interpolated song, a theatrical vehicle for moral evangelizing. The first, by America's first great ballad scholar, remained practically unknown and unperformed; the second, by a forgotten actor/playwright, became legendary and widely embedded in the American cultural heritage. Yet both share at least two important features. One is their incorporation of easily recognized music. The works are also related through the purposes for which they were completed and performed.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 210 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8153-1380-9 (9780815313809)
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Person
Dale Cockrell College of William and Mary
Content
Introduction to the Series; About this Volume; Introduction to this Volume; Sources; Bibliography; Index of Musical Numbers; Il Pesceballo, Libretto, Musical Numbers; Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, Script, Addendum, "Farewell! farewell! a long farewell", Musical Numbers