This essay analyses the functions and forms of the pastoral masques in two musical works celebrating England and its monarchs: Purcell’s semi-opera King Arthur (1691) and Britten’s coronation opera Gloriana (1953). The conventions of the masque and the pastoral combine in performances involving singing and dancing by rustics and shepherds. In both works, the pastoral masques or moments are spectacles within the spectacle, offered as gifts to the character(s) on stage. The masques thus foreground the artificiality of pastoral by this mise-en-abyme of the pageantry attending royal occasions. They invite reflection on the relation between the pastoral texts and their musical settings, and raise the question of what constitutes “pastoral” music...
Nowhere is the richness and variety of the English Renaissance better shown than in the dramatic wor...
The presentation demonstrates improvisation techniques found in manuscript rather than printed sourc...
The “golden age” of the arts in England in the sixteenth century came about largely because of the c...
This dissertation explores dramatic music as it refers to the Elizabethan world. It discusses works ...
This thesis argues that Saturnalian festival practice is central to the representation of both verna...
In this paper, I examined how the Stuart court masque was adopted and subtly criticized in The Tempe...
This thesis explores incidental music written to accompany tableaux vivants in London Shakespeare pr...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the dramatic function of the Court Masque in the plays of W...
"It is well known that Henry Purcell composed music for operas, but what he actually did for the ope...
The composition of Benjamin Britten’s sixth opera, Gloriana, originates from a conversation about em...
From the late seventeenth century (Purcell’s The Fairy-Queen, 1692), Shakespeare’s plays have entere...
Henry Purcell has long been acknowledged as one of England’s greatest composers. Little is known abo...
2012-08-01This paper examines the pastoral genre as represented in operatic works from the early 18t...
The English Shepherds' Carols are herein viewed through illumination by the other arts of the mediev...
British musical style changed dramatically after 1880 primarily due to factors which may be subsumed...
Nowhere is the richness and variety of the English Renaissance better shown than in the dramatic wor...
The presentation demonstrates improvisation techniques found in manuscript rather than printed sourc...
The “golden age” of the arts in England in the sixteenth century came about largely because of the c...
This dissertation explores dramatic music as it refers to the Elizabethan world. It discusses works ...
This thesis argues that Saturnalian festival practice is central to the representation of both verna...
In this paper, I examined how the Stuart court masque was adopted and subtly criticized in The Tempe...
This thesis explores incidental music written to accompany tableaux vivants in London Shakespeare pr...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the dramatic function of the Court Masque in the plays of W...
"It is well known that Henry Purcell composed music for operas, but what he actually did for the ope...
The composition of Benjamin Britten’s sixth opera, Gloriana, originates from a conversation about em...
From the late seventeenth century (Purcell’s The Fairy-Queen, 1692), Shakespeare’s plays have entere...
Henry Purcell has long been acknowledged as one of England’s greatest composers. Little is known abo...
2012-08-01This paper examines the pastoral genre as represented in operatic works from the early 18t...
The English Shepherds' Carols are herein viewed through illumination by the other arts of the mediev...
British musical style changed dramatically after 1880 primarily due to factors which may be subsumed...
Nowhere is the richness and variety of the English Renaissance better shown than in the dramatic wor...
The presentation demonstrates improvisation techniques found in manuscript rather than printed sourc...
The “golden age” of the arts in England in the sixteenth century came about largely because of the c...