Bibliography for Musical Style and Historical Culture: Handel's London BETA

Aspden, S. (1997) ‘Ballads and Britons: Imagined Community and the Continuity of “English” Opera’, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 122(1), pp. 24–51. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jrma/122.1.24.

Ballad Operas Online (no date). Available at: http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/balladoperas/.

Fiske, Roger (1973) English theatre music in the eighteenth century. London: Oxford University Press.

Gagey, Edmond McAdoo (1965) Ballad opera. [Bronx, N.Y.]: B. Blom.

Gay, John et al. (1983) ‘The beggar’s opera’. BBC in association with RM Arts.

Handel, George Frideric et al. (2009) ‘Handel in the Playhouse’. Opella Nova.

John, G. (no date) The music of John Gay’s The Beggars Opera: edited and arranged from eighteenth-century sources by Jeremy Barlow. Edited by J. Barlow. Oxford University Press.

Joncus, B. (2006) ‘Handel at Drury Lane: Ballad Opera and the Production of Kitty Clive’, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 131(2), pp. 179–226. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jrma/fkl013.

Joncus, B. (2012) ‘"The Assemblage of every female Folly”: Lavinia Fenton, Kitty Clive and the Genesis of Ballad Opera’, in Women, popular culture, and the eighteenth century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 25–51.

Joncus, B. (no date) ‘TIMELINE FOR BALLAD OPERA: TOWARDS A HISTORY’. Available at: https://learn.gold.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=193801.

Joncus, Berta (2009) ‘“A Likeness Where None Was to Be Found”: Imagining Kitty Clive (1711-1785)’, Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography; Spring-Fall2009, Vol, 34(1), pp. 89–106. Available at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aft&AN=505413697&site=ehost-live.

Joncus, Berta and Barlow, Jeremy (2011) ‘The stage’s glory’: John Rich, 1692-1761. Newark: University of Delaware Press.

‘Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Beggar’s Opera and the Birth of the British Pop Song Industry’ (no date). Available at: https://learn.gold.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=65170.

Purcell, H. (no date) ‘Gay: The Beggar’s Opera, Act I - Air: “Virgins are like the fair flower...”’ Available at: http://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/217502.

Rogers, V.L. (2007) Writing plays ‘in the sing-song way’: Henry Fielding’s ballad operas and early musical theater in eighteenth-century London. Available at: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll127/id/549419.

Schultz, W.E. (1923) Gay’s Beggar’s opera: its content, history and influence. New Haven: Yale University Press.