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English Theatre Music in the Eighteenth Century
English Theatre Music in the Eighteenth Century Author:Roger Fiske This revised edition discusses all the dramatic genres of the 18th-century English theater from pantomime to opera, and vividly portrays its chief protagonists in an entertaining prose style, liberally peppered with anecdotes. In addition to covering in detail the classics of the century--such — as Gay's The Beggar's Opera--Fiske provides a wealt... more »h of illustrative musical examples, appendices of surviving music, and short biographies of the main performers.« less