Thomas Mcgeary
Biographic Data
| ID | 1071017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Mcgeary |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgeary |
| SIGNATURE | MCGEARY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8337-7361 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Thomas Clayton’s Arsinoe (1705) Reconsidered: An English Opera in the Italian Manner
Thomas Clayton’s opera Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus (1705), while acknowledged as the first opera in the Italian manner produced in England, is also possibly the most reviled opera of the era, a reputation launched in 1709 by the anonymous author of ‘A Critical Discourse on Opera’s and Musick in England’. The opera’s success during its three-season run is at odds with its present reputation. This article offers a reconsideration of Arsinoe based on e…
Farinelli and the English: “One God” or the Devil
En Angleterre, où l’on se passionne pour l’opéra italien depuis le début du dix-huitième siècle, l’arrivée du castrat italien Farinelli en 1734 déchaîne les passions les plus vives. Les pamphlets et satires qui prirent le chanteur pour cible montrent que celui-ci joua un rôle important dans les bouleversements affectant la façon de concevoir les catégories sexuelles. C’est ainsi par exemple que grâce au personnage du castrat, la femme découvre la…
George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents. Vol. 3: 1734–1742. Ed. by Donald Burrows, Helen Coffey, John Greenacombe, and Anthony Hicks
This third volume of the George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents project covers just eight seasons, from the arrival of Carlo Broschi (called ‘Farinelli’) in September 1734 as the star of the second season of the Opera of the Nobility, the rival to Handel and Heidegger’s opera company, to Handel’s return to Britain (August 1742) from Dublin, where he first performed Messiah after two series of subscription concerts. When the Handel: Collected…
George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents , i: 1609–1725. Ed. by Donald Burrows, Helen Coffey, John Greenacombe, and Anthony Hicks
Journal Article George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents, i: 1609–1725. Ed. by Donald Burrows, Helen Coffey, John Greenacombe, and Anthony Hicks Get access George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents, i: 1609–1725. Ed. by Donald Burrows, Helen Coffey, John Greenacombe, and Anthony Hicks. pp. xxiii + 835. ( Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2014. £120. ISBN 978-1-107-01953-9.) Thomas McGeary Thomas McGeary Champaign, Illinois …
The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain
The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain examines the involvement of Italian opera in British partisan politics in the first half of the eighteenth century, which saw Sir Robert Walpole's rise to power and George Frideric Handel's greatest period of opera production. McGeary argues that the conventional way of applying Italian opera to contemporary political events and persons by means of allegory and allusion in individual operas is mistaken; n…
Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain
Handel and Homosexuality: Burlington House and Cannons Revisited
It has been claimed that Burlington House and Cannons, the homes of the Earl of Burlington and the Duke of Chandos, were homosexual or homoerotic settings and that Handel's presence in these environments suggests that he was 'gay' or influenced the secular works he composed there. Examining in detail biographical information about John Gay, Alexander Pope and William Kent, eighteenth-century biographical accounts of Handel and insights from the h…
Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos
Shaftesbury on Opera, Spectacle and Liberty
Journal Article SHAFTESBURY ON OPERA, SPECTACLE AND LIBERTY Get access THOMAS McGEARY THOMAS McGEARY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 4, November 1993, Pages 530–541, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/74.4.530 Published: 01 November 1993
Harry Partch -- Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions and Librettos
Shaftesbury on Opera, Spectacle and Liberty
Journal Article SHAFTESBURY ON OPERA, SPECTACLE AND LIBERTY Get access THOMAS McGEARY THOMAS McGEARY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 4, November 1993, Pages 530–541, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/74.4.530 Published: 01 November 1993
Handel and Homosexuality: Burlington House and Cannons Revisited
It has been claimed that Burlington House and Cannons, the homes of the Earl of Burlington and the Duke of Chandos, were homosexual or homoerotic settings and that Handel's presence in these environments suggests that he was 'gay' or influenced the secular works he composed there. Examining in detail biographical information about John Gay, Alexander Pope and William Kent, eighteenth-century biographical accounts of Handel and insights from the h…
Harry Partch -- Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions and Librettos
Shaftesbury on Opera, Spectacle and Liberty
Journal Article SHAFTESBURY ON OPERA, SPECTACLE AND LIBERTY Get access THOMAS McGEARY THOMAS McGEARY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 4, November 1993, Pages 530–541, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/74.4.530 Published: 01 November 1993
Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos
Handel and Homosexuality: Burlington House and Cannons Revisited
It has been claimed that Burlington House and Cannons, the homes of the Earl of Burlington and the Duke of Chandos, were homosexual or homoerotic settings and that Handel's presence in these environments suggests that he was 'gay' or influenced the secular works he composed there. Examining in detail biographical information about John Gay, Alexander Pope and William Kent, eighteenth-century biographical accounts of Handel and insights from the h…
The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain
The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain examines the involvement of Italian opera in British partisan politics in the first half of the eighteenth century, which saw Sir Robert Walpole's rise to power and George Frideric Handel's greatest period of opera production. McGeary argues that the conventional way of applying Italian opera to contemporary political events and persons by means of allegory and allusion in individual operas is mistaken; n…
Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain
George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents , i: 1609–1725. Ed. by Donald Burrows, Helen Coffey, John Greenacombe, and Anthony Hicks
Journal Article George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents, i: 1609–1725. Ed. by Donald Burrows, Helen Coffey, John Greenacombe, and Anthony Hicks Get access George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents, i: 1609–1725. Ed. by Donald Burrows, Helen Coffey, John Greenacombe, and Anthony Hicks. pp. xxiii + 835. ( Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2014. £120. ISBN 978-1-107-01953-9.) Thomas McGeary Thomas McGeary Champaign, Illinois …
George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents. Vol. 3: 1734–1742. Ed. by Donald Burrows, Helen Coffey, John Greenacombe, and Anthony Hicks
This third volume of the George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents project covers just eight seasons, from the arrival of Carlo Broschi (called ‘Farinelli’) in September 1734 as the star of the second season of the Opera of the Nobility, the rival to Handel and Heidegger’s opera company, to Handel’s return to Britain (August 1742) from Dublin, where he first performed Messiah after two series of subscription concerts. When the Handel: Collected…
Farinelli and the English: “One God” or the Devil
En Angleterre, où l’on se passionne pour l’opéra italien depuis le début du dix-huitième siècle, l’arrivée du castrat italien Farinelli en 1734 déchaîne les passions les plus vives. Les pamphlets et satires qui prirent le chanteur pour cible montrent que celui-ci joua un rôle important dans les bouleversements affectant la façon de concevoir les catégories sexuelles. C’est ainsi par exemple que grâce au personnage du castrat, la femme découvre la…
Thomas Clayton’s Arsinoe (1705) Reconsidered: An English Opera in the Italian Manner
Thomas Clayton’s opera Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus (1705), while acknowledged as the first opera in the Italian manner produced in England, is also possibly the most reviled opera of the era, a reputation launched in 1709 by the anonymous author of ‘A Critical Discourse on Opera’s and Musick in England’. The opera’s success during its three-season run is at odds with its present reputation. This article offers a reconsideration of Arsinoe based on e…
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