What is it about?
Review of Shield's pantomime Omai (performance edition)
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Why is it important?
It is the first performance edition of this important eighteenth-century work dealing with Captain Cook, Britain's imperial ambitions in the Pacific and a Pacific Islander, Mai, who traveled to London.
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This page is a summary of: WILLIAM SHIELD (1748–1829), ED. ROBERT HOSKINS, ORCHESTRATED BY DAVID VINE ODE TO CAPTAIN COOK, FROM OMAI, OR, A TRIP ROUND THE WORLD Hong Kong: Artaria, 2014 PP. IX + 135,isbn 1 877369 80 2, Eighteenth-Century Music, August 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1478570616000130.
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