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