Author: David Charlton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316515842
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
A major re-orientation in understanding opera, exploring musical comedies with spoken dialogue previously excluded from historical accounts.
Author: Patricia Howard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521296649
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This book explores all aspects of Gluck's historically important opera Orfeo.
Author: David Charlton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316515842
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
A major re-orientation in understanding opera, exploring musical comedies with spoken dialogue previously excluded from historical accounts.
Author: Margaret R. Butler
Publisher: Eastman Studies in Music
ISBN: 1580469019
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
How do you create a style of opera that speaks to everyone, when no one agrees on what it should say -- or how?
Author: Patricia Howard
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351565362
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This volume presents a collection of essays by leading Gluck scholars which highlight the best of recent and classic contributions to Gluck scholarship, many of which are now difficult to access. Tracing Glucks life, career and legacy, the essays offer a variety of approaches to the major issues and controversies surrounding the composer and his works and range from the degree to which reform elements are apparent in his early operas to his contribution to changing perceptions of Hellenism. The introduction identifies the major topics investigated and highlights the innovatory nature of many of the approaches, particularly those which address perceptions of the composer in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume, which focuses on one of the most fascinating and influential composers of his era, provides an indispensable resource for academics, scholars and libraries.
Author: Jessica Gabriel Peritz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520380800
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
How did "voice" become a metaphor for selfhood in the Western imagination? The Lyric Myth of Voice situates the emergence of an ideological connection between voice and subjectivity in late eighteenth-century Italy, where long-standing political anxieties and new notions of cultural enlightenment collided in the mythical figure of the lyric poet-singer. Ultimately, music and literature together shaped the singing voice into a tool for civilizing modern Italian subjects. Drawing on a range of approaches and frameworks from historical musicology to gender studies, disability studies, anthropology, and literary theory, Jessica Gabriel Peritz shows how this ancient yet modern myth of voice attained interpretable form, flesh, and sound. The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the AMS 75 PAYS Fund of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Author: Gunhild Oberzaucher-Schüller
Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann
ISBN: 9783826027710
Category : Ballet
Languages : de
Pages : 486
Book Description
Author: Daniel Heartz
Publisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9781576470817
Category : Enlightenment
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A collection of 18 essays on musical theatre in the eighteenth century, written between 1967 and 2001
Author: JohnA. Rice
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351567888
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The study of opera in the second half of the eighteenth century has flourished during the last several decades, and our knowledge of the operas written during that period and of their aesthetic, social, and political context has vastly increased. This volume explores opera and operatic life of the years 1750-1800 through a selection of articles intended to represent the last few decades of scholarship in all its excitement and variety.
Author: Stefan Berger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136592881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of popular national histories, their representations, the meanings given to them and their uses, which expands outside the confines of Western Europe and the US. It draws a picture of popular histories which is European in the full sense of this term. One of its fortes is the inclusion of Eastern Europe. The cross-national angle of Popularizing National Pasts is apparent in the scope of its comparative project, as well as that of the longue durée it covers. Apart from essays on Britain, France, and Germany, the collection includes studies of popular histories in Scandinavia, Eastern and Southern Europe, notably Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Armenia, Russia and the Ukraine, as well as considering the US and Argentina. Cross-national comparison is also a central concern of the thirteen case studies in the volume, which are, each, devoted to comparing between two, or more, national historical cultures. Thus temporality –both continuities and breaks- in popular notions of the past, its interpretations and consumption, is examined in the long continuum. The volume makes available to English readers, probably for the first time, the cutting edge of Eastern European scholarship on popular histories, nationalism and culture.
Author: Catherine Jones
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 074868462X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This new study looks at the relationship of rhetoric and music in the era's intellectual discourses, texts and performance cultures principally in Europe and North America. Catherine Jones begins by examining the attitudes to music and its performance by leading figures of the American Enlightenment and Revolution, notably Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. She also looks at the attempts of Francis Hopkinson, William Billings and others to harness the Orphean power of music so that it should become a progressive force in the creation of a new society. She argues that the association of rhetoric and music that reaches back to classical Antiquity acquired new relevance and underwent new theorisation and practical application in the American Enlightenment in light of revolutionary Atlantic conditions. Jones goes on to consider changes in the relationship of rhetoric and music in the nationalising milieu of the nineteenth century; the connections of literature, music and music theory to changing models of subjectivity; and Romantic appropriations of Enlightenment visions of the public ethical function of music.
