TY - BOOK
T1 - John Eccles:
T2 - Court Odes
A2 - Herissone, Rebecca
N1 - This is a scholarly edition of music, for which I was sole editor.
PY - 2024/8/9
Y1 - 2024/8/9
N2 - Today, John Eccles is mainly remembered for his theater works, but, as Master of the King’s/Queen’s Music, he was the principal composer of ceremonial courts odes for William and Anne, producing some twenty New Year odes and fourteen birthday odes during his thirty-five years in the post – twice as many as Purcell’s output in this genre. The fact that his odes are so little known today is partly due to their extremely poor survival rate: music is extant for only five odes, three of them incomplete. This volume presents Eccles’s complete extant court odes in modern edition for the first time. 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.
AB - Today, John Eccles is mainly remembered for his theater works, but, as Master of the King’s/Queen’s Music, he was the principal composer of ceremonial courts odes for William and Anne, producing some twenty New Year odes and fourteen birthday odes during his thirty-five years in the post – twice as many as Purcell’s output in this genre. The fact that his odes are so little known today is partly due to their extremely poor survival rate: music is extant for only five odes, three of them incomplete. This volume presents Eccles’s complete extant court odes in modern edition for the first time. 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.
UR - https://doi.org/10.31022/B241
M3 - Book
T3 - Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era
BT - John Eccles:
PB - A-R editions
CY - Madison, Wisconsin, USA
ER -