1931592098

9781931592093

Compact disc.

"This enhanced CD includes interactive features and the video Williamsburg, the birthplace of American theatre"--Container.

Program notes by Jane F. Hanson, including sources, inserted in container.

Music from the 18th century theatre

Beggar's opera.

Virgin unmasked.

Wonder.

Provoked husband.

High life below stairs.

Beggar's wedding.

Recruiting officer.

Love in a village.

Honest Yorkshire-man.

Williamsburg, the birthplace of American theatre.

The virgin unmask'd [ballad opera]. Overture / [words] Henry Fielding ; [music] arr. Herbert Watson "from original tunes"

The beggar's opera [ballad opera : selections] / [assembled by] John Gay ; [basses by] Pepusch ; [music from Purcell & from many other sources]. Fill ev'ry glass ; What shall I do ; Virgins are like ; What shall I do (violin version) ; Cease your funning (flute version) ; Cease your funning [song] ; If the heart of a man ; Youth's the season made for joy ; Cottillion ; When young at the bar ; Over the hills and far away

As you like it. Under the greenwood tree ; The tempest. Ariel's song / [words Shakespeare] ; [music] Thomas Arne

Quaker's dance : from The dancing master / John Young (Watson, arr.)

Cymbeline. Dirge / [words, Shakespeare] ; [music] Arne

A wonder, or The honest Yorkshireman [ballad opera] / [words & music Henry Carey ; arr. Watson]. Overture ; Shall I stand still ; Why should women so much be controll'd ; My charming Arabel ; The tailor's dance / Lambranzi

The provik'd husband, or A journey to London. What tho' they call me / [play by] Sir John Vanbarugh, Colley Cibber ; [music by] H. Carey

The busie body : from A treatise of choreography / John Essex (H. Watson, arr.)

High life below stairs. Come here fellow servant / [words] James Towley ; [music by] Jonathan Battishill

Minevit (minuet) for a woman : from The art of dancing / Kellom Tomlinson (music by "Mr. Luly" [i.e. Lully] ; arr. Watson

The beggar's wedding, or Phoebe [ballad opera]. Sure marriage is a fine thing / [words] Charles Coffey ; [music] anon., arr. John Edmunds

The recruiting officer. Come fair one be kind / [words] George Farquhar ; [music] Richard Leveridge

Love in a village. My dolly was the fairest thing [music, George Frideric Handel] ; Young I am [music, Galuppi] / [words] Isaac Bickerstaffe

Thomas and Sally, or The sailor's return. Overture ; Scotch gavotte ; Gigue ; In vain I strive ; My former times ; Let fops pretend ; Ye British youths / [words & music] Arne

The honest Yorkshireman [ballad opera]. Come learn by this ye bachelors / H. Carey ; Watson, arr..

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Musical settings.

Music > United States > 18th century.

Dance music > United States > 18th century.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.