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The Itis Revealed is a hard-hitting examination of the debilitating effects the sugar industry has had on the Western world for centuries, from the slave trade, which was primarily fueled by sugar cane production, to the current health issues today, this book is part historical fact, part science, and part memoir. Taken from the authors own lessons learned during his journey to develop cleaner living habits, this is a must read for anyone seek...

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This interdisciplinary study attempts to make sense of what has long been regarded as a chaotic period in the history of opera in London. In 1778, R.B. Sheridan acquired the King's Theatre and its resident opera company in what we would now call a leveraged buy-out, plunging the opera intoescalating debts that were to haunt it into the 1840s. The 1780s and early 1790s were a stormy but exciting era: the company hired some of the foremost singe...

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This volume of specially commissioned essays has been collected to celebrate the tercentenary of Purcell's death. The essays are representative of the best recent research and explore the following areas: the autograph manuscripts, Purcell's compositional technique, the relationship between Purcell and his teacher John Blow, a reassessment of Purcell's court odes, performance practice and word-setting, and eighteenth-century reception history,...

Essays commemorating the 1995 tercentenary of Purcell's death, representing the best recent research.

Begins with the innovations of Monteverdi and developments in Northern Italy. By the end of the 1670s the Baroque spirit flourished north of the Alps, at the courts in Paris, Vienna, London and the German states. Spain and Portugal also made distinctive contributions to the culture of the Baroque.

This book was the first comprehensive survey of Purcell's dramatic music.