Eighteenth-Century British Patriotic and Political Cantatas

PAUL F. RICE completed undergraduate work at McMaster University and M.A. and Ph. D. degrees in musicology at the University of Victoria. His research interests include the operatic and concert music of eighteenth-century France and England, as well as opera in general. He is the author of journal articles and several books, The Performing Arts at Fontainebleau from Louis XIV to Louis XVI (1989) and The Fountainebleau Operas of Jean-Philippe Rameau: A Documentary Study (in progress). Editions of scores include An Edited Collection of he Theatre Music of John Abraham Fisher (1996), John Abraham Fisher: Six Symphonies (2001), and suites drawn from unpublished operas by Rameau. The latter have been used for commercial recordings on the Naxos label. In addition, he is a frequent broadcaster with the CBC radio, and is often heard in the intermission features of the Saturday Afternoon at the Opera programmes. He has twice been awarded major research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and is currently completing a study of the solo cantata in eighteenth-century Britain.