A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Greek Plays, Incidental Music to
GREEK PLAYS, Incidental Music to. The great interest which has of late years been taken at the English Universities in the performances of Greek dramas in the original has given opportunity for the composition of choruses and incidental music. As these works are of some importance in the history of English music, a list of them is here appended:—
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus; Oxford, June 1880. Music by Walter Parratt.
The Ajax of Sophocles; Cambridge, Nov. 28 to Dec. 2, 1882. Music by Sir G. A. Macfarren.
The Birds of Aristophanes; Cambridge, Nov. 27, to Dec. 1, 1883. Music by C. Hubert H. Parry.
The Eumenides of Aeschylus; Cambridge, Dec. 1 to 5, 1885. Music by C. V. Stanford.
The Alcestis of Euripides; Oxford, May 18 to 24. 1887. Music by C. H. Lloyd.
The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles; Cambridge, Nov. 22 to 26, 1887. Music by C. V. Stanford.