The Cambridge Companion to Rossini
Author: Emanuele Senici
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-04-29
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780521001953
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The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera
Author: David Charlton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-09-04
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 1139825895
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 2003 Companion is a fascinating and accessible exploration of the world of grand opera. Through this volume a team of scholars and writers on opera examine those important Romantic operas which embraced the Shakespearean sweep of tragedy, history, love in time of conflict, and the struggle for national self-determination. Rival nations, rival religions and violent resolutions are common elements, with various social or political groups represented in the form of operatic choruses. The book traces the origins and development of a style created during an increasingly technical age, which exploited the world-renowned skills of Parisian stage-designers, artists, and dancers as well as singers. It analyses in detail the grand operas by Rossini, Auber, Meyerbeer and Halévy, discusses grand opera in Russia and Germany, and also in the Czech lands, Italy, Britain and the Americas. The volume also includes an essay by the renowned opera director David Pountney.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman
Author: Bruce Clarke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1107086205
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book gathers diverse critical treatments from fifteen scholars of the posthuman and posthumanism together in a single volume.
The Cambridge Companion to Liszt
Author: Kenneth Hamilton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-09-22
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1139825755
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Companion provides an up-to-date view of the music of Franz Liszt, its contemporary context and performance practice, written by some of the leading specialists in the field of nineteenth-century music studies. Although a core of Liszt's piano music has always maintained a firm hold on the repertoire, his output was so vast, influential and multi-faceted that scholarship too has taken some time to assimilate his achievement. This book offers students and music lovers some of the latest views in an accessible form. Katharine Ellis, Alexander Rehding and James Deaville present the biographical and intellectual aspects of Liszt's legacy, Kenneth Hamilton, James Baker and Anna Celenza give a detailed account of Liszt's piano music - including approaches to performance - Monika Hennemann discusses Liszt's Lieder, and Reeves Shulstad and Dolores Pesce survey his orchestral and choral music.
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science
Author: Bruce Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-09-13
Total Pages: 684
ISBN-13: 1136950427
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into three main sections, this volume: links diverse literatures to scientific disciplines from Artificial Intelligence to Thermodynamics surveys current theoretical and disciplinary approaches from Animal Studies to Semiotics traces the history and culture of literature and science from Greece and Rome to Postmodernism. Ranging from classical origins and modern revolutions to current developments in cultural science studies and the posthumanities, this indispensible volume offers a comprehensive resource for undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers. With authoritative, accessible, and succinct treatments of the sciences in their literary dimensions and cultural frameworks, here is the essential guide to this vibrant area of study.
The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner
Author: Steven Vande Moortele
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-27
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1107163196
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The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature
Author: David Hillman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-05-19
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1316299007
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of the body in literature. It historicizes embodiment by charting our evolving understanding of the body from the Middle Ages to the present day, and addresses such questions as sensory perception, technology, language and affect; maternal bodies, disability and the representation of ageing; eating and obesity, pain, death and dying; and racialized and posthuman bodies. This Companion also considers science and its construction of the body through disciplines such as obstetrics, sexology and neurology. Leading scholars in the field devote special attention to poetry, prose, drama and film, and chart a variety of theoretical understandings of the body.
The Cambridge Companion to the ‘Eroica' Symphony
Author: Nancy November
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-06-25
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1108422586
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The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini
Author: Nicholas Mathew
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-11-07
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 0521768055
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Leading scholars re-evaluate the opposition between Beethoven and Rossini, the great symbolic duo of early nineteenth-century music.
The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies
Author: Nicholas Till
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-10-18
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 0521855616
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