Memoirs of the Musical Drama, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Musical Drama, Vol. 2 of 2 Rinaldo, though inferior to many of Handel's subsequent operas, was beyond comparison the most masterly work of this description that had been heard in England. The airs are generally antiquated in their form, and the phrases of melody have been so often repeated by subsequent composers, that they nowappear hackneyed and common. To imagine their effect when originally produced, it is necessary to keep in View the state of music at that time: and this remark is generally applicable to music of an old date, especially if it is of a melo dions and popular kind. One air, however, in this opera, furnishes a remarkable exception -the air Furie terribile, sung by Armida. It is a wild burst of passion, full of the force and energy of Gluck, whose style, too, it resembles in its brevity, and the want of the eternal cla capo of Handel's days. There is an impassioned air in this opera. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.