@misc{5e9b45e7f4ba482f94981cda244bc389,
title = "Charles Dibdin: The Wags",
abstract = "The edition used for the recording of this musical entertainment. ",
keywords = "Charles Dibdin, The Wags, English music, edition, Simon Butteriss, Stephen Higgins",
author = "John Cunningham",
note = "The following post is from David Chandler ( Retrospect Opera ): Charles Dibdin's The Wags (1790) was by far the most successful of his acclaimed one-man shows, or, as he liked to call them (and thus developed the idea of tabletalk), “Table Entertainments”. As the leading singer-songwriter of his day, he stood behind a piano, taking turns speaking and singing to his audience, bringing a wide range of comic characters to life. Dibdin published most of the songs individually, and since he often refreshed his successful shows with new songs, the number of songs published often far exceeded the number of songs that would be on the program in a single performance. In a typical performance, he sang about 18 songs, some of which likely received encores. Overall hasDibdin published 37 songs from The Wags . Dibdin published the songs, but not the spoken parts of the Table Entertainments. Because of this, it has sometimes been claimed that the shows as a whole are unrecoverable. In the British Library (Add. Mss. 30.960-30.962), however, there is a wealth of manuscript material from which the Dibdin researcher David Chandler was able to restore The Wags in the original version. The recording was made on a suitable Broadwood piano from 1801. The CD release of Retrospect Opera contains a complete text of The Wags and introductory essays by Chandler and John Cunningham. There is also a YouTube version. Source: https://rism.info/de/new\_publications/2021/10/07/the-hits-of-the-1790s-charles-dibdins-the-wags.html ",
year = "2021",
month = sep,
day = "10",
language = "English",
publisher = "Retrospect Opera",
type = "Other",
}