Restoration Theatre Airs
Musica Britannica Volume 110
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- Binding: Hardcover
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- Size: 10.0 x 13.0 inches
- Pages: 216
Description
Transcribed and edited by Peter Holman & Andrew Woolley
An extensive survey of the genre from the mid-1670s to the reign of Queen Anne, thirteen sets of theatre airs by Purcell's contemporaries and followers offer valuable context for his own contribution to the repertoire, and broaden our appreciation of secular music-making in Restoration England. Earlier collections of airs by Locke and Smith, Turner, Anonymous and Grabu were composed for the Duke's Company and its successor, the United Company. Following the latter's dissolution in 1695, further sets were written for the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre by Finger, Forcer, Eccles, Corbett and Gillier, and for the Drury Lane Theatre by Croft, Clarke, Paisible and Barrett. Representing important composers and idioms has been the primary criterion for selection – from nearly 150 known sets – where possible avoiding material already available in scholarly editions.
(DG = Dorset Garden Theatre; DL = Drury Lane Theatre; HT = Hall Theatre in Whitehall; LIF = Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre; QT = Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket)
Matthew Locke (1621/2–77) and Robert Smith (c. 1648–75)
Airs for The Tempest by William Shakespeare, adapted by John Dryden, William Davenant and Thomas Shadwell, for the Duke's Company (DG, 30 April 1674)
The First Music: (a) Introduction, (b) Galliard, (c) Gavot; The Second Music: (d) Saraband, (e) Lilk; (f) Curtain Tune, (g) The First Act Tune: Rustic Air, (h) The Second Act Tune: Minuet, (i) The Third Act Tune: Corant, (j) The Fourth Act Tune: A Martial Jig, (k) The Conclusion: A Canon 4 in 2
William Turner (1651/2–1740)
Airs for Pastor Fido, or The Faithful Shepherd by Elkanah Settle, for the Duke's Company (DG, November or December 1676)
(a) Curtain Tune, [Chaconne], (b) [ Jig], (c) [Minuet], (d) [Borry], (e) [Minuet], (f) [Gavot]; Appendix (bass part only): (g) [Air], (h) [Air], (i) [Corant], (j) [ Jig]
Anonymous
Airs for Mustapha, the Son of Solyman the Magnificent by Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, possibly for an unidentified revival around 1680
(a) Overture, (b) [Air], (c) [Minuet], (d) [Air], (e) [Minuet], (f) [Air], (g) [Minuet]
Louis Grabu (fl. 1665–94)
Airs for Valentinian by John Fletcher, adapted by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, for the United Company (HT, 11 February 1684)
(a) Air pour les haubois – Air pour les flûtes, (b) Prelude, (c) Air pour Jupiter – Air pour les suivans de Jupiter, (d) Air pour les songes affreux, (e) Air pour les Satires, (f) Menuet
Gottfried Finger (c. 1655–1730)
Airs for The Mourning Bride by William Congreve, for Betterton's Company (LIF, 20 February 1697)
(a) Overture, (b) Borry, (c) [Air], (d) [Minuet], (e) Air, (f) [Curtain Tune], (g) Air, (h) [Minuet], (i) Gavot, (j) [Air]; Appendix 1: (k) Roundo Air, (l) Air, (m) Air, (n) Minuet, (o) [Air]; Appendix 2 (bass part only): (p) [Air]
Francis Forcer (1649–1705)
Airs for The Innocent Mistress by Mary Pix, for Betterton's Company (LIF, late June 1697)
(a) [First Music: Minuet], (b) [Second Music: Gavot], (c) Overture, (d) [Curtain Tune: Minuet], (e) [First Act Tune: Slow Air], (f) [Second Act Tune: Minuet], (g) [Third Act Tune: Slow Air], (h) [Fourth Act Tune: Gavot]
William Croft (1678–1727)
Airs for Courtship A-la-Mode by David Crauford, for Rich's Company (DL, 9 July 1700)
(a) Overture, (b) Air, (c) Air, (d) Roundo, (e) Roundo Minuet, (f) Air, (g) Hornpipe, (h) Roundo Scotch Tune
John Eccles (1670–1735)
Airs for The Mad Lover by John Fletcher, adapted by Peter Anthony Motteux, for Betterton's Company (LIF, probably January 1701)
(a) Overture, (b) Air, (c) Air, (d) Slow Air, (e) Air, (f) Jig, (g) Air, (h) Air, (i) Air
Jeremiah Clarke (c. 1674–1707)
Airs for All for the Better, or The Infallible Cure by Francis Manning, for Rich's Company (DL, October 1702)
(a) Overture, (b) Gavot, (c) Roundo Hornpipe, (d) Air, (e) Roundo Air, (f) Air, (g) Farewell, (h) Scotch Tune, (i) Roundo Minuet
James Paisible (c. 1656–1721)
Airs for She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not, or The Kind Imposter by Colley Cibber, for Rich's Company (DL, 26 November 1702)
(a) Overture, (b) Almand, (c) Minuet, (d) Air, (e) Jig, (f) Gavot, (g) Saraband, (h) Corant
William Corbett (1680–1748)
Airs for Love Betray'd, or The Agreeable Disappointment by William Burnaby, for Betterton's Company (LIF, probably January 1703)
(a) Overture, (b) Almand, (c) Saraband, (d) Minuet, (e) Corant, (f) Slow Air, (g) March, (h) Slow Air, (i) Roundo
John Barrett (c. 1676–1719)
Airs for The Albion Queens, or The Death of Mary Queen of Scots by John Banks, for Rich's Company (DL, 6 March 1704)
(a) Overture, (b) Air, (c) Jig, (d) Saraband, (e) Air [Cibell], (f) Jig, (g) Roundo, (h) Gavot, (i) Jig
?Pierre Gillier (b. 1665)
Airs for The Stratagem by George Farquhar, for Swiney's Company (QT, 8 March 1707)
(a) Overture, (b) Trumpet Tune, (c) Almand, (d) Air, (e) Saraband, (f) Gavot, (g) Air, (h) Jig, (i) Jig
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