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Dibdin, Charles: Hassan; or, The Spoilt Favourite A Comic Opera in Two Acts (AE666)

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Dibdin, Charles: Hassan; or, The Spoilt Favourite A Comic Opera in Two Acts (AE666)Description Dibdin, Charles (1745 1814) Product Code: AE666 Description: Hassan; or, The Spoilt Favourite A Comic Opera in Two Acts Edited by: John Franceschina Year of Publication: 2023 Instrumentation: Mixed Voices; 2fl fag 2cor 2vn va vc b Binding: Score: Perfect Parts: Unbound Duration: 6078 minutes ISBN: 978 988 8708 84 0 (print) 978 988 8708 85 7 (digital) ISMN: 979 0 805700 91 5 Details Hassan; or, The Spoilt Favourite, an unproduced manuscript

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Dibdin, Charles (1745-1814)

Product Code: AE666
Description: Hassan; or, The Spoilt Favourite A Comic Opera in Two Acts
Edited by: John Franceschina
Year of Publication: 2023
Instrumentation: Mixed Voices; 2fl fag 2cor 2vn va vc/b
Binding: Score: Perfect / Parts: Unbound
Duration: 60–78 minutes
ISBN: 978-988-8708-84-0 (print)
978-988-8708-85-7 (digital)
ISMN: 979-0-805700-91-5

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Hassan; or, The Spoilt Favourite, an unproduced manuscript with a complete libretto and full score, based on “The Story of Abu Hassan, or, the Sleeper Awakened” from the anonymous collection of tales, One Thousand and One Nights, first published in English in 1704. Charles Dibdin was no stranger to the practice of adaptation – the transformation of subject matter, characters, situations, and dialogue from its original source into another work – which had been the stock-in-trade for dramatists since Thespis stepped out of the dithyrambic chorus in a mask portraying a different character. Greek playwrights adapted myths; their medieval progeny dramatized the Bible; Shakespeare adapted Holinshed, Plutarch, the commedia dell’arte, Boccaccio, and Saxo Grammaticus; and as Richard Hornby persuasively noted in Drama, Metadrama, and Perception, dramatic writing is not only an imitation of life, it is foremost an imitation of other plays. It is no surprise, then, that Charles Dibdin should argue in his Complete History of the Stage (1800) that there is no harm in borrowing, for “Every author has a right to imitate whatever he is capable of improving” (5:160).

Provided with only a rudimentary musical education in his youth, Charles Dibdin was highly influenced by Italian opera composers whose galant style of composition he borrowed to create an indigenous musical theatre sound, based on simple, easily accessible harmonies and pulsating rhythms, with engaging melodies that were capable of capturing a dramatic situation more effectively than those of composers with better musical training. Although he was harmonically conservative and firmly rooted in basic diatonic harmonies (tonic, subdominant, and dominant), Dibdin created melodies that ranged from folk-like simplicity to heavily elaborated coloratura, always displaying an expert command of vocal techniques (breath control, phrasing, register changes) and dramatic necessity.Adhering to the typical makeup of the eighteenth-century English theatre orchestra, Dibdin scored Hassan for four woodwinds: either two oboes, two flutes, or two clarinets, and two bassoons, which typically doubled the violoncello parts, but were also used as solo instruments; two horns, pitched invarious keys; and strings. Dibdin wrote no parts for percussion, trumpet, or keyboard, even though he may have expected the orchestra leader to conduct from one.

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