King Arthur [HL:14026383]

King Arthur [HL:14026383]

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UPC:
884088426217
Composer:
Purcell
EAN:
9780853601784
ISBN:
085360178X
Instrumentation:
Vocal Score
Minimum Order Quantity:
1
Pages:
176
UPC:
884088426217
Subtitle:
Opera Vocal Score. Music Sales America
Original Currency:
USD
Vendor:
Hal Leonard
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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 their 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.