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Ellen T. Harris: Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
- Background to the music
 | Introduction to part 1 |
| First performance: place, date and artistic climate |
| Text: synopsis and history |
| Text: Literary style |
The Music
| Introduction to part 2 |
| The Tenbury manuscript: Discrepancies between it and the printed text. |
| The Tenbury manuscript: Omissions |
| Prologue |
| Choruses and dances |
| Musical and dramatic structure |
| Music declamation |
| Ground bass techniques |
Performance history
| Introduction to part 3 |
| The late Eighteenth-century performances |
| Late Eighteenth-century sources |
| Musical adaption |
| The nineteenth-century revival |
| Twentieth-century performance trends |
| Reorchestrations |
| Authenticity |
Appendix: A short, annotated performance history of Dido and Aeneas
| National premieres |
| Editions |
| Recordings |
| Bibliography |
| References to individual movements |
| Index |
Clarendon paperbacks, published 1989. ISBN 0-19-315252-5. Total pages:
184.
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