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Author: Reinhard Strohm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-10-30
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780521088350
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reinhard Strohm examines the relationship between Handel's great operas and the earlier European Baroque tradition.
Author: Winton Dean
Publisher: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 358
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →30 essays on opera, written between 1952 and 1985, are collected and arranged by topic.
Author: JohnA. Rice
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 1351567888
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Nathan Link
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0197651348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A Poetics of Handel's Operas investigates the rich representational fabric of Handel's stories, drawing upon musicology, narratology, drama, and film in offering a study with appeal to scholars, producers and performers, opera afficionados, and anyone fascinated by storytelling. In most storytelling genres, we often distinguish between the story, on the one hand, and the way that story is represented, on the other, without a second thought. We know that a character in a film hears neither her own voice-over nor the ambient music that accompanies it, and that she does not really build a house from the ground up in the three minutes spanned by the cinematic montage that depict its construction. In opera, however, many commentators to this day characterize the medium as "unrealistic," since we know, for example, that people in the real world do not sing to each other, nor does orchestral music accompany their utterances. This said, the vocal and orchestral music, while not literally present in the world of the story surely have a great deal to tell us about the opera's story and its characters, and if we distinguish the performance we see and hear on the stage and in the orchestra pit from the story represented, we enable ourselves to construct stories that are no less coherent than those conveyed by other media. By avoiding conflation of the story and its representation, we enable ourselves to engage more meaningfully with the significance of these and many other unique aspects of operatic storytelling"--
Author: David Littlejohn
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 0520325575
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stanley Sadie
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780835718332
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Nigel Fortune
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-02-17
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780521619288
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume of eleven essays, compiled as a tribute to Winton Dean on his seventieth birthday, focuses on that area which has absorbed Winton Dean's interest throughout his distinguished career: opera and other theatre music. The first half of the book covers the period from the late seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth. The second half of the book ranges over later opera: operacomique; Mendelssohn's operas; the influence of Wagner; the finales of Janácek's operas; and Britten's first two major operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia.
Author: Mary Ann Parker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1136783598
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Baroque composer George Frideric Handel easily ranks among the world's greatest composers. The first edition of this research guide on Handel appeared in 1988; since that time a great deal of scholarly work has been published on Handel and related areas, including the discovery of a hitherto unknown work. New general resources such as the New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), electronic resources such as the RISM libretto catalogue online, and the study of Handel's continuing popularity as evidenced by the new Handel House Museum in London and Handel practice around the world (e.g., Messiah and millennium celebrations in Tonga, singalong Messiahs etc.) are incorporated into this revised edition of the Handel guide.
Author: Suzanne Aspden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-04-18
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1107033373
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Rival Sirens examines the vital and intertwined roles of singers, audiences and local cultural context in creating eighteenth-century opera.
Author: Sarah Yuill McCleave
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1580464203
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the pivotal role of dance in the Italian operas of Handel, perhaps the greatest opera composer between Monteverdi and Mozart. George Frideric Handel set himself apart from his contemporaries by employing choreographed instrumental music to complement and reinforce the emotional impact of his operas. Of his fifty-three operas, no fewer than fourteen -- including ten written for the London stage -- feature dances. Dance in Handel's London Operas explores the relationship between music, drama, and dance in these London works, dispelling the notion that dance was a largely peripheral element in Italian-language operas prior to those of Gluck. Taking a chronological approach, Sarah McCleave examines operas written throughout various periods in Handel's life, beginning with his early London operas, including his time at the Royal Music Academy and the "Sallé" operas of the 1730s, and concluding with his unstaged dramatic opera Alceste (1750). In considering the various influences on Handel (particularly the London stage), McCleave blends analysis of information from eighteenth-century treatises with that found in more modern studies, offering an informed and imaginative understanding of the role dance played in the work of this major figure --one who remained responsive throughout his career to the vital and innovative theatrical environment in which he worked. Sarah McCleave is a lecturer at The School of Creative Arts at Queen's University Belfast.
