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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: 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: Mark A. Radice
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1574670328
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These essays by respected scholars examine representative operatic productions from diverse national schools and periods, together forming a comprehensive history of the staging techniques of opera over the centuries.
Author: John Louis DiGaetani
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-03-14
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 078648246X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Once tainted by association with Hitler and Nazism, Richard Wagner's work has experienced an international cultural renaissance in the last 25 years. His magnum opus, Der Ring des Nibelungen, which took him over 20 years to finish, is a complex tale with themes of greed, corruption and loss, spun out in more than 16 hours of powerfully moving opera. This book, with provocative essays for both the uninitiated and the seasoned fan, examines Wagner's Ring cycle from a wide array of modern perspectives. Divided into six parts, this anthology first offers a foundation for the Ring, with a chronology and an introduction, along with a look at Wagner as an enterprising marketer. Part Two explores different interpretations of the Ring, with reference to politics, romanticism and international inspirations. Part Three studies the complex relationship between Wagner's Ring and Germany, with a summary of the opera's influence on German culture and a discussion of its Munich premiere. Part Four offers a production history, including studies of the Ring's effects in America and its influence on world literature. Part Five provides a technical examination of language in the Ring, as well as an interview with the famous Wagnerian soprano Jane Eaglen. The book concludes with an essay on the trouble with Wagnerian opera and an overview of the recorded Ring on disc, video and print.
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: Ulrich Weisstein
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 904202111X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ulrich Weisstein, an international authority in the fields of comparative literature and comparative arts, has been a pioneer paving the way for present-day intermedia studies. Among his broad intermedial interests opera has always held a central place. For the first time this volume makes available his major contributions to opera criticism in compact form, thus meeting a serious scholarly demand. The necessarily stringent selection of essays from Professor Weisstein's large output on opera, reflecting fifty years of involvement with the genre, is primarily governed by the wish to present texts that are representative of their author's work and, at the same time, are unlikely to be readily available through other channels. The fourteen essays collected are arranged in chronological order, some of them showing Ulrich Weisstein as an initiator of librettology, others tracing adaptive processes extending from textual sources to final operas, or investigating writer/composer collaborations. Further topics are satirical reflections on operatic activities in early-eighteenth-century Italy and practices of opera censorship, artist operas or definitions of romantic and epic opera. The essays are written in an accessible, essentially non-technical language and are expected to make both a profitable and a pleasurable reading for literary scholars as well as musicologists and general art lovers.
Author: Edward T. Cone
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1989-04-24
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780226114705
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Included in these eighteen essays by Cone are his never-before-published essay, "The World of Opera and Its Inhabitants," the unabridged version of "Music: A View from Delft," an introduction to this collection by the author himself, and a complete bibliography of his published writings. "This selection of [Cone's] writings includes all the most incandescent and influential articles. We should have had such a book long ago."—Joseph Kerman, University of California at Berkeley Winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for 1990
Author: Daniel Heartz
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781576470817
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of 18 essays on musical theatre in the eighteenth century, written between 1967 and 2001
