Abdelazer; or, The Moor's Revenge (/æbdɛləˈzɛər/ or /æbdəˈlɑːzə/) is a 1676 play by Aphra Behn, an adaptation of the c. 1600 tragedy Lust's Dominion....
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Theme of Purcell. It was based on the second movement, "Rondeau", of the Abdelazer suite. It was originally commissioned for the British educational documentary...
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publishing four plays in close succession. In 1676–77, she published Abdelazer, The Town-Fopp and The Rover. In early 1678 Sir Patient Fancy was published...
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cassock". Aphra Behn uses the term for 'Holy Dress', or 'Friers Habits' in Abdelazer (1676), Act 2; this in a Spanish setting. In later centuries gaberdine...
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(From King Arthur)" 1:34 "A Night With Lulu" 1:21 "Minuet In G (From Abdelazer)" 0:53 "Here The Deities Approve (From the Ode welcome to all the Pleasures)"...
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Purcell's incidental music, composed about 1695, to Aphra Behn's 1676 play Abdelazer, or The Moor's Revenge, perhaps better known as the theme used by Benjamin...
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Canterbury Guests (1694) The Fatal Marriage (1694) Love Triumphant (1694) Abdelazer (1695) Bonduca (1695) The Rival Sisters (1695) Family Daniel Purcell Edward...
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form; writing a Rondeau as the second movement of his music for the play Abdelazer by Aphra Behn which premiered at the Dorset Garden Theatre on July 3,...
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various plays, with the more famous examples including Henry Purcell's Abdelazer music, George Frideric Handel's The Alchemist music, Joseph Haydn's Il...
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Canterbury Guests (1694) The Fatal Marriage (1694) Love Triumphant (1694) Abdelazer (1695) Bonduca (1695) The Rival Sisters (1695) Family Daniel Purcell Edward...
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