Opera (Score)
SKU:
HL.14017908
Purcell Society Volume
26 Opera Score.
Composed by Henry
Purcell. Music Sales
America. Baroque,
Classical, Opera.
Softcover. 206 pages.
Music Sales #NOV151026.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14017908).
ISBN
9780853605850.
7.75x11.0x0.71
inches.
King Arthur
was the only one of
Purcell's professionally
produced operas to have
been designed as a
semi-opera; the others
were all adaptations of
earlier plays. Dryden
made a real attempt to
integrate the music into
the drama, but since he
ascribed to the dramatic
conventions of the period
which virtually confined
music to allegorical or
supernatural beings and
thier worshippers, or
servants, shepherds and
similar characters, the
main action mostly occurs
in the spoken sections,
and even the two singing
characters, Philidel and
Grimbald speak more than
they sing.
Purcell: King Arthur
