
British Opera in America
Children in the Wood, Music by Samuel Arnold, Libretto by Thomas Morton, American Premiere Volume I
Susan L. Porter(Editor)
Routledge (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 1. March 1994
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-8153-1368-7 (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. Volume 1 presents the earliest works in this series of Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater. Indeed, the two tides reprinted here were composed in the prior century but enjoyed a currency in the early 1800s that helped establish conventions for generations of native-born dramaturges and composers. Moreover, Children in the Wood 1795 and Blue Beard 1811 are the only two works included in this series that were fully realized abroad, and imported for performance in the United States by musicians trained in the theaters of London. As editor Susan Porter points out in her Introduction, like all stage works, they were then adapted to suit the tastes of the times and places in which they were performed. (Indeed, Blue Beard was already an English adaptation of a French work.)
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
General
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 210 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8153-1368-7 (9780815313687)
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Susan L. Porter
British Opera in America
Children in the Wood, Music by Samuel Arnold, Libretto by Thomas Morton, American Premiere Volume I
E-Book
12/2023
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
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Gary Wasserman
British Opera in America
Children in the Wood, Music by Samuel Arnold, Libretto by Thomas Morton, American Premiere Volume I
E-Book
12/2023
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
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Person
Susan L. Porter Ohio State University
Content
Introduction to the Series; About this Volume; Introduction to this Volume; Sources; Bibliography; Index of Musical Numbers; Children in the Wood; Frontispiece; Libretto; Musical score; Musical addenda: "When Nights Were Cold"; "The Jealous Don"; "When First I Slipp'd My Leading Strings"; "Mark My Alford"; Blue Beard: Libretto; Musical score