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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Series |
Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of music examples; List of tables; Acknowledgements; General Editor's series preface; INTRODUCTION: Reappraising Sullivan; 1 INCIDENTAL MUSIC: Re-enchanted isle: Sullivan's music to The Tempest; 2 ORCHESTRAL MUSIC: Sullivan as instrumental composer: The symphony and orchestral music; 3 SONG: Sullivan, The Window, and the English song cycle; 4 CHAMBER MUSIC: Domestic Day-Dreams: Sullivan's piano and instrumental music; 5 COMIC OPERA: Musical design and dramaturgy in the Savoy Operas |
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6 CANTATA: Shining through the ages: Scenes from The Golden Legend7 GRAND OPERA: On history and national identity: Sullivan, Scott, and Ivanhoe; 8 CHORAL AND LITURGICAL MUSIC: Aspects of Sullivan's religious style in the Te Deums; Bibliography; Index of Sullivan's Works; General Index |
| Summary |
"Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) was Victorian Britain's most celebrated and popular composer, whose music to this day reaches a wider audience than that of any of his contemporaries. Yet the comic operas on which Sullivan's reputation is chiefly based have been consistently belittled or ignored by the British musicological establishment, while his serious works have until recently remained virtually unknown. The time is thus long overdue for scholarly re-engagement with Sullivan. The present book offers a new appraisal of the music of this most notable nineteenth-century British composer, combining close analytical attention to his music with critical consideration of the wider aesthetic and social context to his work. Focusing on key pieces in all the major genres in which Sullivan composed, it includes accounts of his most important serious works - the music to The Tempest, the 'Irish' Symphony, The Golden Legend, Ivanhoe - alongside detailed examination of the celebrated comic operas created with W.S. Gilbert to present a balanced portrayal of Sullivan's musical achievement."--Provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900 fast |
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Music -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
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MUSIC -- Lyrics.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
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Music
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315568027 |
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1315568020 |
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