Excellent condition. Book is pristine.Hard slipcover is in fair condition. Has a few stains, commensurate with its age.
A facsimile/reproduction of the 1729 Edition.
Published by Argonaut Books in 1961. It appears to be a first edition.
A comprehensive reproduction of the score of John Gay's famous opera.
The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch.
It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today. Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the conventions of opera, but without recitative.
The lyrics of the airs in the piece are set to popular broadside ballads, opera arias, church hymns and folk tunes of the time.
This edition, protected in a slipcover is a facsimile edition & includes commentaries by Louis Kronenberger and Max Goberman.
Excellent condition. Book is pristine.Hard slipcover is in fair condition. Has a few stains, commensurate with its age.
A facsimile/reproduction of the 1729 Edition.
Published by Argonaut Books in 1961. It appears to be a first edition.
A comprehensive reproduction of the score of John Gay's famous opera.
The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch.
It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today. Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the conventions of opera, but without recitative.
The lyrics of the airs in the piece are set to popular broadside ballads, opera arias, church hymns and folk tunes of the time.
This edition, protected in a slipcover is a facsimile edition & includes commentaries by Louis Kronenberger and Max Goberman.