Opera In Theory And Practice Image And Myth
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Opera In Theory And Practice Image And Myth
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Author : Lorenzo Bianconi
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2003-11
Opera In Theory And Practice Image And Myth written by Lorenzo Bianconi and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11 with Music categories.
The History of Italian Opera marks the first time a team of scholars has worked together to investigate the entire Italian operatic tradition, rather than limiting its focus to major composers and their masterworks. Including both musicologists and historians of other arts, the contributors approach opera not only as a distinctive musical genre but also as a form of extravagant theater and a complex social phenomenon. This sixth volume in the series centers on the sociological and critical aspects of opera in Italy, considering the art in the context of an Italian literary and cultural canon rarely revealed in English and American studies. In its six chapters, contributors survey critics' changing attitudes toward opera over several centuries, trace the evolution of formal conventions among librettists, explore the historical relationships between opera and Italian literature, and examine opera's place in Italian popular and national culture. In perhaps the volume's most striking contribution, German scholar Carl Dahlouse offers his most important statement on the dramaturgy of opera.
Opera In Theory And Practice Image And Myth
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Author : Lorenzo Bianconi
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2003-11-01
Opera In Theory And Practice Image And Myth written by Lorenzo Bianconi and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-01 with Music categories.
The History of Italian Opera marks the first time a team of scholars has worked together to investigate the entire Italian operatic tradition, rather than limiting its focus to major composers and their masterworks. Including both musicologists and historians of other arts, the contributors approach opera not only as a distinctive musical genre but also as a form of extravagant theater and a complex social phenomenon. This sixth volume in the series centers on the sociological and critical aspects of opera in Italy, considering the art in the context of an Italian literary and cultural canon rarely revealed in English and American studies. In its six chapters, contributors survey critics' changing attitudes toward opera over several centuries, trace the evolution of formal conventions among librettists, explore the historical relationships between opera and Italian literature, and examine opera's place in Italian popular and national culture. In perhaps the volume's most striking contribution, German scholar Carl Dahlouse offers his most important statement on the dramaturgy of opera.
Dis Embodying Myths In Ancien R Gime Opera
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Author : Bruno Forment
language : en
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Release Date : 2012
Dis Embodying Myths In Ancien R Gime Opera written by Bruno Forment and has been published by Leuven University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Music categories.
Will appeal to all music, literature, and art lovers seeking to deepen their knowledge of an increasingly popular repertoire.
The Cambridge Companion To Eighteenth Century Opera
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Author : Anthony R. DelDonna
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-25
The Cambridge Companion To Eighteenth Century Opera written by Anthony R. DelDonna and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-25 with Music categories.
The perfect accompaniment to courses on eighteenth-century opera for both students and teachers, this Companion is a definitive reference resource.
Readying Cavalli S Operas For The Stage
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Author : Ellen Rosand
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Readying Cavalli S Operas For The Stage written by Ellen Rosand and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Music categories.
After more than three centuries of silence, the voice of Francesco Cavalli is being heard loud and clear on the operatic stages of the world. The coincidence of productions at La Scala (Milan) and Covent Garden (London) in the same month (September 2008) of two different operas signals a new stage in the recovery of these extraordinary works, confined until now to special venues committed to 'early music'-opera festivals, conservatory, and university productions. The works of the composer who is credited with having invented the genre of opera as we know it are finally enjoying a renaissance. A new edition of Cavalli's twenty-eight operas is in preparation, and the composer and his works are at the center of a great deal of new scholarship ranging from the study of sources and production issues to the cultural context of opera of this period. In the face of such burgeoning interest, this collection of essays considers the Cavalli revival from various points of view. In particular, it explores the multiple issues involved in the transformation of an operatic manuscript into a performance. Although focused on the works of Cavalli, much of this material can transfer easily to other operatic repertoires.Following an introductory part, reflecting back on four decades of Cavalli performances by some of the conductors responsible for the revival of interest in the composer, the collection is divided into four further parts: The Manuscript Scores, Giasone: Production and Interpretation, Making Librettos, and Cavalli Beyond Venice.
Popular High Culture In Italian Media 1950 1970
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Author : Emma Barron
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-08-20
Popular High Culture In Italian Media 1950 1970 written by Emma Barron and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-20 with History categories.
When Mona Lisa smiled enigmatically from the cover of the Italian magazine Epoca in 1957, she gazed out at more than three million readers. As Emma Barron argues, her appearance on the cover is emblematic of the distinctive ways that high culture was integrated into Italy’s mass culture boom in the 1950s and 1960s, a period when popular appropriations of literature, fine art and music became a part of the rapidly changing modern Italian identity. Popular magazines ran weekly illustrated adaptations of literary classics. Television brought opera from the opera house into the homes of millions. Readers wrote to intellectuals and artists such as Alberto Moravia, Thomas Mann and Salvatore Quasimodo by the thousands with questions about literature and self-education. Drawing upon new archival material on the demographics of television audiences and magazine readers, this book is an engaging account of how the Italian people took possession of high culture and transformed the modern Italian identity.
The Oxford Handbook Of Opera
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Author : Helen M. Greenwald
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Release Date : 2014
The Oxford Handbook Of Opera written by Helen M. Greenwald and has been published by Oxford Handbooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Music categories.
Fifty of the world's most respected scholars cast opera as a fluid entity that continuously reinvents itself in a reflection of its patrons, audience, and creators.
The Cambridge Companion To Opera Studies
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Author : Nicholas Till
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-18
The Cambridge Companion To Opera Studies written by Nicholas Till and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-18 with Music categories.
The first comprehensive attempt to map the current field of opera studies by leading scholars in the discipline.
The Musical Language Of Italian Opera 1813 1859
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Author : William Rothstein
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-15
The Musical Language Of Italian Opera 1813 1859 written by William Rothstein and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-15 with categories.
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 international successes to Italian unification. Detailed analyses of form, rhythm, melody, and harmony reveal concepts of musical structure different from those usually discussed by music theorists, calling into question the notion of a common practice. Taking an eclectic analytical approach, author William Rothstein uses ideas originating in several centuries, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first, to argue that operatic music can be heard not only as passionate vocality but also in terms of musical forms, pitch structures, and rhythmic patterns--that is, as carefully crafted music worth theoretical attention. Although no single theory accounts for everything, Rothstein's analysis shows how certain recurring principles define a distinctively Italian practice, one that left its mark on the German repertoire more familiar to music theorists.
Opera And Sovereignty
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Author : Martha Feldman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-10-05
Opera And Sovereignty written by Martha Feldman and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-05 with Music categories.
Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period’s social and political upheavals. Taking an anthropological approach to European music that’s as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera’s shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, with its festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolute ideals. She situates these transformations against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture to show how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in the face of a growing public sphere. In so doing, Feldman explains why the form had such great international success and how audience experiences of the period differed from ours today. Ambitiously interdisciplinary, Opera and Sovereignty will appeal not only to scholars of music and anthropology, but also to those interested in theater, dance, and the history of the Enlightenment.