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Music and the Benefit Performance in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,835
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Music and the Benefit Performance in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover): Matthew Gardner, Alison Desimone

Music and the Benefit Performance in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)

Matthew Gardner, Alison Desimone

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In the early eighteenth century, the benefit performance became an essential component of commercial music-making in Britain. Benefits, adapted from the spoken theatre, provided a new model from which instrumentalists, singers, and composers could reap financial and professional rewards. Benefits could be given as theatre pieces, concerts, or opera performances for the benefit of individual performers; or in aid of specific organizations. The benefit changed Britain's musico-theatrical landscape during this time and these special performances became a prototype for similar types of events in other European and American cities. Indeed, the charity benefit became a musical phenomenon in its own right, leading, for example, to the lasting success of Handel's Messiah. By examining benefits from a musical perspective - including performers, audiences, and institutions - the twelve chapters in this collection present the first study of the various ways in which music became associated with the benefit system in eighteenth-century Britain.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 2019
Editors: Matthew Gardner • Alison Desimone
Dimensions: 254 x 180 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-49293-5
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Opera
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)
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LSN: 1-108-49293-2
Barcode: 9781108492935

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