Henry Purcell's Dido And Aeneas

Contents: Background to the Music --; First Performance: Place, Date, and Artistic Climate --; Text: Synopsis and History --; Text: Literary Style --; The Music --; The Tenbury Manuscript: Discrepancies between it and the Printed Texts --; The Tenbury Manuscript: Omissions --; Choruses and Dances --; Musical and Dramatic Structure --; Musical Declamation --; Ground Bass Techniques --; Performance History --; The Late 18th-century Performances --; Late 18th-century Sources --; Musical Adaptation --; The 19th-century Revival --; 20th-century Performance Trends --; Reorchestrations --; Authenticity --; Appendix: A Short, Annotated Performance History of Dido and Aeneas --; National Premieres --; Editions --; Recordings --; References to Individual Movements.