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Court odes / John Eccles ; edited by Rebecca Herissone.
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Eccles, John, -1735, composer.
- Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715, author.
- Motteux, Peter Anthony, 1660-1718, author.
- Series:
- Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.
- Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; v. 241.
- Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573
- Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 241
- Standardized Title:
- Court odes
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715--Musical settings.
- Tate, Nahum.
- Motteux, Peter Anthony, 1660-1718--Musical settings.
- Motteux, Peter Anthony.
- Odes--Musical settings.
- Odes.
- Cantatas, Secular--Scores.
- Cantatas, Secular.
- Vocal duets with instrumental ensemble--Scores.
- Vocal duets with instrumental ensemble.
- Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble--Scores.
- Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble.
- Genre:
- Scores.
- Odes.
- Cantatas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 score (xxxi, 4 unnumbered pages of plates, 144 pages)) : facsimiles.
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2024.
- Language Note:
- English words also printed as text; prefatory material and critical commentary in English.
- Staff notation.
- Summary:
- "John Eccles is today mainly remembered for his theater works, but, as Master of the King's/Queen's Music, he was also the principal composer of ceremonial courts odes for William III and Anne, producing some twenty New Year odes and fourteen birthday odes during his thirty-five years in the post -- twice as many as Henry Purcell's output in the same genre. The fact that his odes are so little known today is partly due to how few survive: music is extant for only five odes, three of them incomplete. This volume presents the first complete modern edition of Eccles's surviving court odes. There is much superb music awaiting discovery here: by the time he wrote his first odes, Eccles was already a seasoned theater composer, and his odes can be equally dramatic and virtuosic; at the same time, they demonstrate confident control both of the choral and orchestral forces at his disposal, and of the works' large-scale architecture." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Wake, Britain, wake (New Year ode, 1702) / text by Nahum Tate
- Hark, how the muses call aloud (New Year ode, 1703) / text by Nahum Tate
- Inspire us, genius of the day (birthday ode, 1703) / text by Peter Anthony Motteux
- New Year ode, 1704 / text anonymous (Nahum Tate?)
- Awake, awake, harmonious pow'rs (birthday ode, 1704) / text anonymous (Nahum Tate?).
- Notes:
- Includes foreword by Anthony Rooley; preface by Michael Burden, Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Rebecca Herissone, and Alan Howard; and biographical and critical notes.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-144).
- Online resource (A-R editions, viewed 5 October 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9781987208979
- 1987208978
- OCLC:
- 1460657793
- Publisher Number:
- B241 A-R Editions, Inc. (score)
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