Oxford Eprints
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Oxford E-prints is a cross-disciplinary digital archive for research articles written by Oxford University authors. The repository has been developed as part of the SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) project and is running on eprints.org open archives software.
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Casting Issues in the Original Production of Purcell's Opera 'The Fairy-Queen' - Burden, Michael
A small piece of contemporary evidence that has come to light suggests that the roles of both Titania and Oberon in Purcell's The Fairy-Queen were performed by child players. The proposition is supported by evidence from the Epilogue, which contains sentiments paralleling those found in similar texts from works known to have been performed by juvenile actors. Viewing the opera's text with this evidence in mind, it is possible to see that the rigid division between spoken and sung sections is a byproduct of the use of juveniles, and that the size of the players influenced other details of the...
(pdf ARRAY(0x1451412c)) - 07-mar-2005
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Taste, Power, and Trying to Understand Op. 36: British Attempts to Popularize Schoenberg - Earle, Ben
From the late 1950s onwards, significant parts of the British musical establishment became involved in vigorous proselytizing activity on behalf of the later work of Arnold Schoenberg. Over the next three decades, as many as half a dozen distinguished British writers on music produced books devoted to the explanation of this difficult repertory to non-specialist audiences, books that have become only too familiar to generations of students taking compulsory courses on the Second Viennese School. Employing a variety of sociological and analytical methods, I provide close readings both of these texts and of key passages from that most intractable and...
(pdf ARRAY(0x142d8ee8)) - 07-mar-2005
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