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The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th and early 17th century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the intermedio ( a public version of the masque was the pageant ).
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masque and was
At the same time, the French masque was gaining a firm hold at the English Court, with even more lavish splendour and highly realistic scenery than had been seen before.
In Ben Jonson's Lovers Made Men ( 1617 ), " the whole masque was sung after the Italian manner, stilo recitativo ".
The Mattachine Society was named by Harry Hay at the suggestion of James Gruber, inspired by a French medieval and renaissance masque group he had studied while preparing a course on the history of popular music for a workers ' education project.
The other was the extreme elaboration of the courtly masque being conducted at the same time by Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones.
" started out as part of Alfred, a masque about Alfred the Great co-written by James Thomson and David Mallet which was first performed at Cliveden, country house of Frederick, Prince of Wales.
It remains among the best-known British patriotic songs up to the present, while the masque of which it was originally part is only remembered by specialist historians.
The most outstanding humanists, poets and artists of the day, in the full intensity of their creative powers, devoted themselves to producing masques ; and until the Puritans closed the English theatres in 1642, the masque was the highest artform in England.
In the 20th century, Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote Job, a masque for dancing which premiered in 1930, although the work is closer to a ballet than a masque as it was originally understood.
His designating it a masque was to indicate that the modern choreography typical when he wrote the piece would not be suitable.
His title he took from Thomas Nash, whose masque < ref > It was a " comedy " when it was printed, in 1600 as A Pleasant Comedie, call'd Summers Last will and Testament
Other texts, especially from the symbolist writers, may have influenced Chambers as well: " Le Roi au masque d ' or " (" The king in the gold mask "), a short story written by Marcel Schwob — a French novelist and a friend of Oscar Wilde — was published in 1893 while Chambers was still studying in Paris.
His first piece after Psyché ( 1671 ) was a kind of classical masque, Les Fêtes de l ' Amour et de Bacchus ( 1672 ).
In 1609, Inigo Jones appears as an architectural consultant at Hatfield House, making small modifications to the design as the project progressed, and in 1610, Jones was appointed Surveyor to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales and in this position, Jones devised a masque for the Prince and was possibly involved in some alterations to St James ’ s Palace.
No doubt this was due to the nature of the media in which he mainly worked, the masque and the song-book.
The masque was an amusement at any time too costly to be popular, and during the commonwealth period it was practically extinguished.
masque and form
The English semi-opera which developed in the latter part of the 17th century, a form in which John Dryden and Henry Purcell collaborated, borrows some elements from the masque and further elements from the contemporary courtly French opera of Jean-Baptiste Lully.
Of all the arts of the Renaissance, the masque is the artistic form most alien to audiences today.
Later, Henry would ban social mumming, and bring the ' masque ' form of entertainment to England.
masque and courtly
The masque tradition developed from the elaborate pageants and courtly shows of ducal Burgundy in the late Middle Ages.
masque and entertainment
While staying in the household of Archbishop John Whitgift at Croydon in October 1592 he wrote an entertainment called Summer's Last Will and Testament, a " show " with some resemblance to a masque.
In addition to the plays, Lyly also composed at least one " entertainment " ( a show that combined elements of masque and drama ) for Queen Elizabeth ; The Entertainment at Chiswick was staged on July 28 and 29, 1602.
This is partially due to the purpose of the masque being family entertainment and spectacle.
masque and early
She was the Nymph of the Air in Daniel's masque Tethys's Festival, and filled roles in several of the early court masques of Ben Jonson, including The Masque of Beauty ( 1608 ) and The Masque of Queens ( 1609 ).
Basically home-grown and with roots in the early 17th-century court masque, though never ashamed of borrowing ideas and stage technology from French opera, the spectaculars are sometimes called " English opera ".
masque and 17th
Similar fashions became popular in England during the 17th century when they were worn by Queen Mary II and by Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I of England, for whom architect Inigo Jones designed a masque costume that fully revealed both of her breasts.
Décolleté styles were popular in England in the 17th century and even Queen Mary II and Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I of England, were depicted with fully bared breasts ; and architect Inigo Jones designed a masque costume for Henrietta Maria that fully revealed both of her breasts.
masque and though
John Dryden's masque King Arthur is still performed, largely thanks to Henry Purcell's music, though seldom unabridged.
John Milton's Comus ( with music by Henry Lawes ) is described as a masque, though it is generally reckoned a pastoral play.
masque and forms
It was one of the important predecessors to opera, and an influence on other forms like the English court masque.
masque and including
In an effort to create an amicable atmosphere for the coming Parliamentary session, several leading aristocratic members of the Parliamentary party were cast in the masque, including Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford, and Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke.
He also wrote the masque Peleus and Thetis and songs for John Dryden's Secular Masque, incidental music for William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet and The Winter's Tale, and a quantity of chamber music including a set of twelve trio sonatas.
* Thomas Arne – Alfred ( masque ), including the song, " Rule Britannia "
With the exception of Israel Potter, he never published another conventional novel, although he subsequently wrote and published many exceptional stories, including Bartleby, the Scrivener and Benito Cereno, and the experimental " masque " The Confidence-Man.
masque and intermedio
The masque in England also had many similarities to the intermedio, although it did not originate as a " filler " between acts in a play in the same way.
masque and version
Its next performance was in 1700 as a masque incorporated into an adapted version of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure at Thomas Betterton's theatre in London.
masque and pageant
( Compare the word " masque "— a formal written and sung court pageant.
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A descriptive narrative of a processional masque is the masque of the Seven Deadly Sins in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene ( Book i, Canto IV ).
During this time, he wrote his one act opera Sous le masque ( 1927 ).
In 1607, he wrote and published a masque for the occasion of the marriage of Lord Hayes, and, in 1613, issued a volume of Songs of Mourning: Bewailing the Untimely Death of Prince Henry, set to music by John Cooper ( also known as Coperario ).
Also in 1700 he finished second in a competition to write music for William Congreve's masque The Judgement of Paris ( John Weldon won ).
* Oberon, the Faery Prince, masque written by Ben Jonson ( performed in 1611 ).
He is the author of six collections of short stories: Cœur double (" Double Heart ", 1891 ), Le Roi au masque d ’ or (" The King in the Golden Mask ", 1892 ), Mimes ( 1893 ), Le Livre de Monelle (" The Book of Monelle ", 1894 ), La Croisade des Enfants (" The Children's Crusade ", 1896 ), and Vies imaginaires (" Imaginary Lives ", 1896 ).
Stockhausen's conception of opera is more akin to the tableaux of the Renaissance masque and its hermetic cosmology than to traditional dramatic and climactic structures typical of the past two centuries ( Godwin 1998, 354 ).
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