Old English Country Dances: Gathered From Scarce Printed Collections, and From Manuscripts; With Illustrative Notes and a Bibliography of English Country Dance Music (Classic Reprint)

Frank Kidson

Forgotten Books

English folk-song and dance,

Ep Publishing Ltd.

Excerpt from The Beggar's Opera: Its Predecessors and SuccessorsThis little volume aims at presenting in a handy form such facts as bear upon the inception of Gay's masterpiece and its influence upon the English stage; and secondly at giving a brief account of the Italian operas that preceded it and of the ballad operas for which it led the way.The recent production has caused a renewed interest in The Beggar's Opera and given to the twentieth century a glimpse of the dramatic art which delighted generations of our ancestors.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

The Beggar?s Opera: Its Predecessors and Successors (Classic Reprint)

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