The beggar's 'children' : how John Gay changed the course of England's musical theatre / by Atkins, Madeline Smith, 1932-

Subjects: “…Gay, John, 1685-1732. Beggar's opera.…”
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Norton recorded anthology of western music. classic to modern.

Table of Contents: “…La serva padrona: Recitative and Aria: Ah quanto mi sta male/Son imbrogliato io / Giovanni Pergolesi -- Cleofide: Act II, Scene 9: Digli ch'o son fedele / Johann Adolf Hasse -- The beggar's opera: Scenes 11 to 13 / John Gay -- Orfeo ed Euridice: Act II, Scene 1 (excerpt) / Christopher Willibald Gluck -- Sonata in D major, K. 119 / Domenico Scarlatti -- Symphony in F major, No. 32: First movement / Giovanni Battista Sammartini -- Sonata in A major, Wq. 55/4: Second movement / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -- Sinfonia a 8 in E-flat Major (La Melodia Germanica) No. 3: First movement / Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz -- Concerto for harpischord or piano and strings in E-flat major, Op. 7, No. 5: First movement / Johann Christian Bach -- Symphony No. 56 in C major: First movement / Franz Joseph Haydn -- Symphony No. 92: Second movement / Franz Joseph Haydn -- Symphony No. 104: Fourth movement / Franz Joseph Haydn.…”

Theatre and governance in Britain, 1500-1900 : democracy, disorder and the state / by Fisher, Tony, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the discourses of theatre and governance -- Origins of the discourse on theatre -- The theatre of the multitude -- Revolts of conduct on the Restoration stage -- Theatre and its publics -- Theatrocracy and the public sphere -- The beggar's opera and the criminal picturesque -- The deontic stage in the eighteenth century: George Lillo's The London merchant -- Theatre in the age of reform -- The governmentalisation of the stage -- The theatre dispositif of the late nineteenth century.…”
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Restoration drama and the idea of literature / by Mannheimer, Katherine

Table of Contents: “…"Take This Sad Ballad, Which I Bought at Fair": Pastoral Performance and Print Capitalism in John Gay's The What D'Ye Call It and The Beggar's Opera -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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Recordings for a history of Western music, fourth edition, by Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca, and Norton anthology of Western music, second edition, edited by Claude V. Pal...