Which well-known song comes from the masque Alfred composed in 1740?
"patronage of the arts is ""Rule, Britannia!"", one of the best-known British patriotic songs. It was composed by the English composer Thomas Arne and written by the Scottish poet and playwright James Thomson as part of the masque ""Alfred"" which was first performed on 1 August 1740 at Cliveden, the country home of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Thomas Arne was also one of Frederick's favourite artists. A masque linking the Prince with both the medieval hero-king Alfred the Great's victories over the Vikings and with the contemporary issue of building up the British sea power obviously went well"
"altered the lyrics, omitting three of the original six stanzas and adding three others, written by Lord Bolingbroke. This version known as ""Married to a Mermaid"" became extremely popular when Mallet produced his masque of ""Britannia"" at Drury Lane Theatre in 1755. This version is taken from , which includes the entire original text of ""Alfred"". 1 2 3 4 5 6 Although the lyrics are usually set out as above, the lines as set to the music are sung in contemporary time according to either of the following variants: Traditionally rendered, And now commonly rendered in alternate form: Variations:"
"most other leading English composers of his time. On 15 March 1737, Arne married singer Cecilia Young, whose sister, Isabella was the wife of John Frederick Lampe. During this period Arne's operas and masques became increasingly popular, and he received the patronage of Frederick, Prince of Wales, at whose country home, Cliveden, the ""Masque of Alfred"", featuring ""Rule Britannia"", was debuted in 1740. In 1741, Arne filed a complaint in Chancery pertaining to a breach of musical copyright and claimed that some of his theatrical songs had been printed and sold by Henry Roberts and John Johnson, the London booksellers"
"1740, ""Rule, Britannia!"" (an aria by the English composer Thomas Arne) was first performed in public in the cliff-side amphitheatre at Cliveden. It was played as part of a masque to celebrate the third birthday of the Prince's daughter Augusta. It is believed that it was while playing cricket in the grounds at Cliveden in 1751 that the Prince received a blow to the chest from a batted ball—it had been thought this caused an infection which proved fatal, but it is now believed he died from a cold followed by a pulmonary embolism After his death, Frederick's family retained"
"King Alfred (poem) King Alfred is an epic poem by John Fitchett (died 1838) and completed by Robert Roscoe, published in 1841 and 1842. The poem narrates—in dramatic terms—King Alfred's ongoing battles against the Danes. Supernatural powers intervene to aid both sides: the Archangel Michael and his hosts—on behalf of the English—and Lucifer and his hosts—on behalf of the Danes. The great work of John Fitchett's life was one which occupied his leisure hours for forty years, and in the composition of which he bestowed unwearied industry and acute research. It was printed at Warrington for private circulation at intervals"
"Scotland minister in the Scottish Lowlands in 1700 who was interested in forging a common British culture and national identity in this way. In collaboration with Thomas Arne, they wrote ""Alfred"", an opera about Alfred the Great's victory against the Vikings performed to Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1740 to commemorate the accession of George I and the birthday of Princess Augusta. ""Rule, Britannia!"" was the climactic piece of the opera and quickly became a ""jingoistic"" British patriotic song celebrating ""Britain's supremacy offshore"". An island country with a series of victories for the Royal Navy associated empire and naval warfare"
"Libertine"" (1715). He later wrote the libretto for Handel’s ""Samson"" (1743), closely based on John Milton's ""Samson Agonistes"". James Thompson's plays often dealt with the contest between public duty and private feelings, and included ""Sophonisba"" (1730), ""Agamemnon"" (1738) and ""Tancrid and Sigismuda"" (1745), the last of which was an international success. David Mallet's (c. 1705–65) ""Eurydice"" (1731) was accused of being a coded Jacobite play and his later work indicates opposition to the Walpole administration. The opera ""Masque of Alfred"" (1740) was a collaboration between Thompson, Mallet and composer Thomas Arne, with Thompson supplying the lyrics for his most famous"
"was composed by Henry Lawes, who also played the part of The Attendant Spirit. Generally, masques were not dramas; they could be viewed as pre-figuring the recitative of opera. In 1745 George Frideric Handel composed three songs and a trio as part of a private arrangement of the masque which was first performed, in June 1745, also at Ludlow Castle. Masques were a favourite court celebration dating from at least the reign of Elizabeth I, but became very popular under the Stuarts. The main parts were often played by courtiers, nobles and sometimes even the royals. In fact, Caroline masques"
"who had grown up in Hanover and at whose house the masque was first performed, had arrived in Britain as an adult and was on very bad terms with his father. He made considerable efforts to ingratiate himself and build a following among his subjects-to-be (although he never ultimately reigned, as he died before his father in 1751). A masque linking the prince with both the ancient hero-king Alfred the Great's victories over the Vikings, together with the contemporary issue of building British sea-power, went well with his political plans and aspirations. Thomson was a Scottish poet and playwright who"
"were the most successful operas of the era and have been among the most frequently revived. In the later 19th century there was an increasing appetite for large scale works that covered epic, biblical and mythical themes. This was reflected in the topics of operas, cantatas and oratorios, often utilising British poems and novels. These included choral works like William Sterndale Bennett's ""The May Queen"" (1858), Ebenezer Prout's ""Hereward"" and ""King Alfred"" and cantatas like Sullivan and Henry Fothergill Chorley's ""The Masque at Kenilworth"" (1864), John Francis Barnett's ""Ancient Mariner"" (1867) and Frederic Hymen Cowen's ""The Rose Maiden"" (1870) and"
"a Masque at Court by the Queenes Majestie and her Ladies."" Davenant's name is not mentioned in the first edition, while Jones's is prominent. Early scholars and critics, confused by similar titles in the historical records, actually tried to attribute ""Luminalia"" to Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, though both men were long dead by 1638. The music for the masque was composed by Nicholas Lanier. One of his songs for the work, called the Song of Night (beginning with the line ""In wet and cloudy mists I slowly rise""), was something of a popular hit in its era; its verses"
"Alfred (Dvořák) Alfred is a heroic opera in three acts by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. It was Dvořák's first opera and the only one he composed to a German text. The libretto, by Carl Theodor Körner, had already been set by Friedrich von Flotow (as ""Alfred der Große"") and is based on the story of the English king Alfred the Great. Composed in 1870, ""Alfred"" was never heard of or performed during Dvořák's lifetime. It received its premiere (in Czech translation) at the City Theatre, Olomouc on 10 December 1938. The opera was performed for the first time with"
"Le maréchal ferrant Le maréchal ferrant (""The Blacksmith"") is a 1761 French two-act ""opéra comique"" with spoken dialogue and music composed by François-André Danican Philidor as well as several ""vaudevilles"" (popular old songs with new words), which were typically included in ""opéras comiques"" of the time. The libretto is by Antoine-François Quétant, after one of the stories in Boccaccio's ""Decameron"" (VII, 1), with verses for the ""ariettes"" by Louis Anseaume and a plan devised by Serrière. The work was first performed by the Opéra-Comique at the Théâtre de la Foire St Laurent in Paris, on 22 August 1761, and was"
"southern France. At first mascot meant simply 'a person or thing supposed to bring good luck' and did not have to be carried or displayed, as now."" Edmond Audran Achille Edmond Audran (12 April 184017 August 1901) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful comic operas, including ""Les noces d'Olivette"" (1879), ""La mascotte"" (1880), ""Gillette de Narbonne"" (1882), ""La cigale et la fourmi"" (1886), ""Miss Helyett"" (1890), and ""La poupée"" (1896). After Audran's initial success in Paris, his works also became a regular feature in the West End of London, in adaptations that Audran supervised. Most of"
"and ""The Magick Banner; or, Two Wives in a House"", a play by John O'Keeffe (died 1833), first presented in 1796. He also appears in the ""Sketch of Alfred the Great: Or, the Danish Invasion"", a ballet by Mark Lonsdale, first performed in 1798; and ""Alfred; An Epic Poem"", a long piece of epic poetry by Henry James Pye (died 1813), published in 1801; and the similarly named ""Alfred, an Epic Poem"", by Joseph Cottle (died 1853)—a poem almost twice as long as Pye's—first published in 1800. Ubba later appears in ""Alfred the Great; Or, The Enchanted Standard"", a musical"
"savants claim that Philidor has stolen from italians. What does it matter, if he enriches our nation with the beautiful things of foreign lands which we should perhaps never have known without him?"" A village farce involving two young couples, a sleeping potion, mistaken identities etc. Notes Sources Le maréchal ferrant Le maréchal ferrant (""The Blacksmith"") is a 1761 French two-act ""opéra comique"" with spoken dialogue and music composed by François-André Danican Philidor as well as several ""vaudevilles"" (popular old songs with new words), which were typically included in ""opéras comiques"" of the time. The libretto is by Antoine-François Quétant,"
"The Ballad of the White Horse The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G. K. Chesterton about the idealised exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, published in 1911. Written in ballad form, the work has been described as one of the last great traditional epic poems ever written in the English language. The poem narrates how Alfred was able to defeat the invading Danes at the Battle of Ethandun under the auspices of God working through the agency of the Virgin Mary. In addition to being a narration of Alfred's military and political accomplishments, it"
"The Masque of Augurs The Masque of Augurs was a Jacobean era masque, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones. It was performed, most likely, on Twelfth Night, 6 January 1622. A second performance of the masque, with textual revisions by Jonson, occurred on 5 or 6 May 1622. The music for the masque was composed by Alfonso Ferrabosco and Nicholas Lanier; however, only one song by Lanier has survived. The masque opens with an anti-masque, a comic scene involving characters from the ""court buttery-hatch,"" including a Lady Alwife, a brewer's clerk, and a ""rare artist"" named Vangoose,"
"or someone closely associated with him. Bede is often thought to be the poet of a five-line poem entitled ""Bede's Death Song"", on account of its appearance in a letter on his death by Cuthbert. This poem exists in a Northumbrian and later version. Alfred is said to be the author of some of the metrical prefaces to the Old English translations of Gregory's ""Pastoral Care"" and Boethius's ""Consolation of Philosophy"". Alfred is also thought to be the author of 50 metrical psalms, but whether the poems were written by him, under his direction or patronage, or as a general"
"was first performed at Cliveden, country house of Frederick, Prince of Wales. Performed to celebrate the third birthday of Frederick's daughter Augusta, 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. But because of its ephemeral nature, not a lot of"
"confident march, beginning with the symbolic """"stars that wheel around the Sun"""" and finally celebrating the union of the realms of Empire with """"Love binds all our hearts in one"""". Although some of the songs in """"Pageant of Empire"""" were associated with particular countries, this song celebrates the union of the whole Empire, and has no particular reference to what was at that time the Union of South Africa. The music is taken from the central section of Elgar's """"Empire March"""", written for the same occasion. A Song of Union ""A Song of Union"" is a poem written by Alfred"
"Frederic Bayco Frederic Bayco, sometimes spelt Fredric Bayco (1913 – 1970) was an English organist and composer of light music, best known for his Tudor pastiche ""Elizabethan Masque"". Born in London, he attended Brighton School of Music, where he attained an ARCO. He was later made a fellow of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO). Other pieces include ""Lady Beautiful"", and his marches ""Royal Windsor"" and ""Marche Militaire"". Like many composers of the light music genre, he contributed a number of pieces to music libraries, and as a result his pieces ""Inferno"" and ""Finger of Fear"" have ended up being"
"A Song of Union ""A Song of Union"" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs (also known as the """"Pageant of Empire"""") written to be performed in the ""Pageant of Empire"" at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924. However the song was not actually performed at the Pageant. This was the only one that the composer wrote as a part-song, though two others """"Sailing Westward"""" and """"The Immortal Legions"""" were later arranged as part-songs. The song is in the form of a"
"the scene of one of their trysts, in order to gather testimony for the lawsuit. In any event, Cibber was awarded a paltry £10 in damages. The following year, Cibber brought a second case against Sloper for ""detaining"" his wife. In fact, Mrs Cibber and Sloper had run off together, and had a daughter, Susannah Maria (Molly). This time Cibber was awarded £500. In 1740 Mrs Cibber sang in the world premiere of her brother's masque ""Alfred"". She moved to Dublin, and in the autumn of 1741 for a busy season at the Aungier Street Theatre with her good friend"
"masques also developed during the Tudor period that involved music, dancing, singing and acting, often with expensive costumes and a complex stage design, sometimes by a renowned architect such as Inigo Jones, presented a deferential allegory flattering to a noble or royal patron. Ben Jonson wrote many masques, often collaborating with Jones. William Shakespeare often included masque-like sections in his plays. The musical sections of masques developed into sung plays that are recognizable as English operas, the first usually being thought of as William Davenant's ""The Siege of Rhodes"" (1656), originally given in a private performance. In France, meanwhile, Molière"
"usual sum of 40-50 pounds; but Lanier was even more generously rewarded for his music, receiving £200. One of the masque's songs, which begins with the line ""Cocklorrel would needs have the devil his guest,"" was a popular hit, both in its own time and well into the Restoration era. (A musical setting for the song survives, though it is anonymous and not certainly Lanier's; other song settings for the masque, by Robert Johnson and Edmund Chilmead, also exist, testifying to the work's popularity.) The masque was included in the second folio collection of Jonson's works in 1641; it also"
"at the King's Theatre in 1753 and the Drury Lane Theatre in 1754 and is the version performed by Bampton Classical Opera in 1998. The setting is the Isle of Athelney in the year 878. Following a defeat by the Vikings, Alfred has taken refuge in the hut of the shepherd Corin and his wife Emma who wonder about the mysterious stranger. Alfred expresses his anguish at the state of affairs of his kingdom and prays to the Genius of Britannia. Alfred's wife Eltruda and his son Edward arrive and rejoice at finding him alive. Corin and Emma still have"
"Adele's Laughing Song """", sometimes called ""Adele's Laughing Song"", is an aria for soprano with choral accompaniment from act 2 of the operetta ""Die Fledermaus"" by Johann Strauss II. It appears in many anthologies of music for soprano singers, and is frequently performed in recitals. Adele, a chambermaid who has borrowed one of her mistress's gowns without permission, and gone to a party, also without permission, gets recognized there by her mistress's husband. She attempts to convince him that he is wrong by laughing scornfully at the idea that a glamorous woman like herself could possibly be a lowly chambermaid."
"Adele's Laughing Song """", sometimes called ""Adele's Laughing Song"", is an aria for soprano with choral accompaniment from act 2 of the operetta ""Die Fledermaus"" by Johann Strauss II. It appears in many anthologies of music for soprano singers, and is frequently performed in recitals. Adele, a chambermaid who has borrowed one of her mistress's gowns without permission, and gone to a party, also without permission, gets recognized there by her mistress's husband. She attempts to convince him that he is wrong by laughing scornfully at the idea that a glamorous woman like herself could possibly be a lowly chambermaid."
"king and Sir Robert Walpole. With James Quin as Solyman, it ran for fourteen nights. In 1740 Mallet published a short ""Life of Bacon""; shortly afterwards Mallet and Thomson were commanded by the Prince to write the masque of ""Alfred"", to celebrate both the birthday of the Princess Augusta and the anniversary of George I's accession. It was played in the gardens of Cliefden, before the Prince and Princess of Wales, on Friday, 1 August 1740, with Quin, Christiana Horton, and Kitty Clive in the leading parts. Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough left in 1744 the sum of £1,000 to"
"dance music, recitatives, and some of the choruses. The Fairy Prince The Fairy Prince is a masque in three acts by composer Thomas Arne. The English libretto, by George Colman the Elder, is based on Ben Jonson’s ""Oberon, the Faery Prince"" (1611). The work premiered at the Covent Garden Theatre, London, on 12 November 1771. Despite being designated as a masque, the work is sung throughout, and is in many respects reminiscent of a comic opera. It is set by Windsor Castle, and depicts satyrs and fairies who guard the castle and its inhabitants during ceremonial occasions. The masque concludes"
"its original German libretto on 17 September 2014, in Prague. The plot of Alfred transpires during wartime between the English and the Danes, sometime during the Middle Ages. It follows the hero, Alfred, on his quest to rescue his love Alvina from the grasp of the Danish leader Harald, and to lead the English to victory. The opera lasts for about 140 minutes. Act 1 – The Camp of the Danes: The opera opens to the Danish camp as they prepare to celebrate a victory over the English. Gothron sits apart from the crowd, unsettled-the night before he dreamed he"
"London, ""The Crimson Petal and the White"", published in 2002. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal ""Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal"" is a sonnet poem written by Alfred Tennyson. It was first published in 1847, in ""The Princess: A Medley"". The poem has been set to music several times, including settings by Benjamin Britten, Roger Quilter, Ned Rorem, Mychael Danna and Paul Mealor. It also appeared as a song in the 2004 film ""Vanity Fair"" (based on Thackeray's novel from 1848), sung by the character Becky Sharp. Writer and poet Oscar Wilde included a reference to Tennyson's poem in the last"