Music-Genres & Styles-Opera

This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.Author: Erling E. GuldbrandsenISBN-10: 1107566096ISBN-13: 9781107566095Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2023Pages: 367Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.76d

Though studying opera often requires attention to aesthetics, libretti, staging, singers, compositional history, and performance history, the music itself is central. This book examines operatic music by five Italian composers--Rossini, Bellini, Mercadante, Donizetti, and Verdi--and one non-Italian, Meyerbeer, during the period from Rossini's first...

The history of women in the opera is a grand story. Women were singers and patrons, of course, but from opera's beginnings in Renaissance Italy, they were also opera composers and librettists. At first it was exclusively for the nobility. In the 19th century,...

Denes Striny's international singing career brought him to the major opera houses of the world in leading roles. At the same time, he was evolving his vocal technique in a quest to find his full vocal potential. This book documents his struggles and successes...

Despite the voluminous literature on Wagner's operas, little has been published that does justice to all the elements of their performance. This book, addressed to both specialists and the opera-going public, brings together a team of authorities from around the world to examine the...

Author: David TrippettISBN-10: 1107529026ISBN-13: 9781107529021Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/22/2021Pages: 397Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.82d

Although nineteenth-century legislation had tried to ensure a precise separation between genre and institution for Parisian music in the theatre, it had inadvertently laid out a field on which the politics of genre could be played out as agents and actors of all types...

Situated at the intersection between the history, historiography and aesthetics of twentieth-century music, this study uses Benjamin Britten's operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics and audiences mediated the "great divide" between modernism and mass culture. Reviving mid-century discussions of the "middlebrow,"...

Between 1955 and 1975 music theatre became a central preoccupation for European composers digesting the consequences of the revolutionary experiments in musical language that followed the end of the Second World War. The 'new music theatre' wrought multiple, significant transformations, serving as a crucible...

Following the defeat of Napoleon in 1814, an event that signalled an end to nearly fourteen years of French domination, Florence seemed to enter a new cultural 'golden age' and by 1824 was described as 'an Earthly Paradise' by the political and liberal writer,...

The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry fostered between the singers in...

Tempesta is a term coined in this book applying to music that exhibits agitated or violent characteristics in order to evoke terror and chaos, involving ideas like rapid scale passages, driving rhythmic figurations, strong accents, full textures, and robust instrumentation including prominent brass and...

Complete text of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von N rnberg in German and English with leitmotifs on the side, note samples in the appendix and audio samples on a free WebApp.Author: Frank RauchISBN-10: 3981822579ISBN-13: 9783981822571Publisher: Musicosa PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/03/2017Pages: 354Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 7.99h x...

This controversial analysis of Britten's operatic works demonstrates how he used music to explore his most private concerns. Claire Seymour examines ways in which Britten's operas explored and articulated the inherent ambiguity and latent sexuality of music, particularly song, and suggests that they may...

Warren Roberts has discovered a Rossini that others have not seen, a composer who commented ironically and satirically on religion and politics in Post-Napoleonic Europe. This book examines Rossini within the context of his own time, one of Napoleonic domination of Italy, restoration of...

MASSENET A CHRONICLE OF HIS LIFE AND TIMESAuthor: Jules MassenetISBN-10: 1574670247ISBN-13: 9781574670240Publisher: AmadeusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2003Pages: 420Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.63lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.01w x 1.08d

Whether you are "in the business," or you are a music theorist, musicologist, or simply an opera fan--read on This is an analytical monograph by a Schenkerian music theorist, but it is also written by one performer and enthusiast for another. Tonality as Drama...

Title: Lakm Composer: L o Delibes Original Publisher: Ditson The complete English vocal score to Delibes' Lakm as originally published by Ditson in 1883. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project. These are out of print or historical...

Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935. In this comprehensive account, Ellen Noonan examines the opera's long history of invention and reinvention as...

"The Amato Opera Company has delighted music lovers throughout the years, establishing an extraordinary artistic tradition in New York City." -- Bill Clinton "The Amato Opera theatre is a truly extraordinary New York cultural institution and it is a priceless addition to our great...

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Beethoven and Rossini have always been more than a pair of famous composers. Even during their lifetimes, they were well on the way to becoming 'Beethoven and Rossini' - a symbolic duo, who represented a contrast fundamental to Western music. This contrast was to...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

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Zaira: A Serious Opera is a literary work written by Peter Von Winter in 1805. The book tells the story of Zaira, a young woman who is torn between her loyalty to her family and her love for a man from a rival clan....

As the complicated relationship between music and theatre has evolved and changed in the modern and postmodern periods, music has continued to be immensely influential in key developments of theatrical practices. In this study of musicality in the theatre, David Roesner offers a revised...

In Technology and the Diva, Karen Henson brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the neglected subject of opera and technology. Their essays focus on the operatic soprano and her relationships with technology from the heyday of Romanticism in the 1820s and...

The stage works of Saint-Sa ns range from grand open-air pageants to one-act comic operas, and include the first composed film score. Yet, with the exception of Samson et Dalila, his twelve operas have lain in the shadows since the composer's death in 1921....

George Frideric Handel was born and educated in Germany, flourished in Italy, and chose to become British. One of the most cosmopolitan of the great composers, much of Handel's music has remained in the popular repertory since his lifetime, and a broad variety of...

The relationship between Gustav Mahler's career as conductor and his symphonic writing has remained largely unexplored territory with respect to his provocative re-invention of the Austro-German symphony at the turn of the twentieth century. This study offers a new account of these works by...

The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain examines the involvement of Italian opera in British partisan politics in the first half of the eighteenth century, which saw Sir Robert Walpole's rise to power and George Frideric Handel's greatest period of opera production. McGeary argues...

While Philip Glass's operas, film scores, symphonies, and popular works have made him America's best-known classical composer, almost no analysis of his compositional techniques grounded in current cultural theory has yet been published. John Richardson's in-depth examination shows how the third opera of Glass's...

Now in Paper! An invaluable reference text for singers, teachers, and vocal and operatic coaches, this volume contains the complete song texts of the songs for voice and piano by Chausson, Debussy, Duparc, Faure, and Ravel. Available in paperback in 2001.Author: Timothy LeVanISBN-10: 0810842122ISBN-13:...

The "Golden Age" of opera-going in Russia, from the 1840s through the 1880s, coincided with the flourishing of Russian prose realism. During this period, opera and literature exerted a reciprocal influence on one another, each adopting and providing a new context for the other's...

A Stanford University Press classic.Author: David J. LevinISBN-10: 0804722390ISBN-13: 9780804722391Publisher: Stanford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1994Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d

(Opera). French/English. Standard Version.Author: Jacques OffenbachISBN-10: 0793567858ISBN-13: 9780793567850Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 10.20h x 6.40w x 0.60d

One of the most original and engaging composers of the twentieth century, Leos Jan ek is now regarded as one of its major musical dramatists. His operas have become a regular part of the repertory, but a full understanding of their diverse subjects and...

Cinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways. Vocal Apparitions tells the story of this fascinating intersection, interprets how it occurred, and explores what happens when opera is projected onto the medium of film. Michal Grover-Friedlander finds striking...

Wagner is one of the most controversial of composers, and much that has been written about him--including his autobiography--is misleading. Barry Millington draws on the best previous scholarship and his own original research to set the record straight. The first part of this book...

In this bold recasting of operatic history, Gary Tomlinson connects opera to shifting visions of metaphysics and selfhood across the last four hundred years. The operatic voice, he maintains, has always acted to open invisible, supersensible realms to the perceptions of its listeners. In...

This book is a comprehensive guide to operas. Whether you are a novice or an experienced musician, Fellner's book serves as an indispensable resource. Basic musical and dramatic materials accompany vocal scores of operas from the repertoire of great opera houses. With rich summaries,...

This "Passover oratorio" by the composer of Runaways is a disarmingly simpleaccount of the birth and life of Moses, and of the Exodus, done with masksand a clever use of puppetry. This unusual show was originally produced (andlater revived) during Passover at Joseph Papp's...

Opera can reveal something fundamental about a film, and film can do the same for an opera, argues Marcia J. Citron. Structured by the categories of Style, Subjectivity, and Desire, this volume advances our understanding of the aesthetics of the opera/film encounter. Case studies...

Claudio Monteverdi is one of the most important figures of 'early' music, a composer whose music speaks powerfully and directly to modern audiences. This book, first published in 2007, provides an authoritative treatment of Monteverdi and his music, complementing Paolo Fabbri's standard biography of...

Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source. Viewing opera as a complex and fascinating form of art and social ritual, rather than reducing it simply to...

This book is concerned not so much with the 'prima donna' as with prime donne: a group of working artists (sometimes famous but more often relatively unknown and now long forgotten) and the circumstances of their professional lives. It attempts to locate these singers...

This contributory volume, the first book of its kind, provides a snapshot of the ways in which discourse about Western music and race overlapped and became intertwined during the period from Wagner's death to the rise of National Socialism and fascism elsewhere in Europe....

Several generations before Schubert, the Lied emerged as domestic entertainment destined to move beyond the home to the symphony hall. This introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre analyzes the Lied in its musical, literary, and cultural contexts--with chapters devoted to focal composers; influence of...

This book explores the cultural and commercial life of Italian opera in late eighteenth-century London. Through primary sources, many analyzed for the first time, Ian Woodfield examines such issues as finances, recruitment policy, handling of singers and composers, links with Paris and Italy, and...