Music and Theatre
Essays in Honour of Winton Dean

This tribute to Winton Dean on his seventieth birthday, focuses on that area which has absorbed Winton Dean's interest throughout his distinguished career: opera and other theatre music.

Nigel Fortune (Edited by)

9780521619288, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 17 February 2005

408 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 2.1 cm, 0.57 kg

This volume of eleven essays, compiled as a tribute to Winton Dean on his seventieth birthday, focuses on that area which has absorbed Winton Dean's interest throughout his distinguished career: opera and other theatre music. The first half of the book covers the period from the late seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth. The second half of the book ranges over later opera: operacomique; Mendelssohn's operas; the influence of Wagner; the finales of Janácek's operas; and Britten's first two major operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia.

List of illustrations
Preface
1. Winton Dean Philip Radcliffe
2. Political allegory in late-seventeenth-century English opera Curtis A. Price
3. Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus: a 'serenata a tre voci'? Brian Trowell
4. George I's venetian palace and theatre boxes in the 1720s Colin Timms
5. Vivaldi's and Handel's settings of Giustino Reinhard Strohm
6. Handel and Charles Jennens's Italian opera manuscripts John H. Roberts
7. Handel, Jennens and Saul: aspects of a collaboration Anthony Hicks
8. 'L'art dramatico-musical': an essay David Charlton
9. Mendelssohn's operas John Warrack
10. Wagnerian tendencies in Italian opera Julian Budden
11. The cathartic slow waltz and other finale conventions in Janácek's operas John Tyrrell
12. Grimes and Lucretia Philip Brett
13. A bibliography of the writings of Winton Dean Stephen Dean.

Subject Areas: Opera [AVGC9]