A History Of English Opera
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A History Of English Opera
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Author : Eric Walter White
language : en
Publisher: London : Faber and Faber
Release Date : 1983-01-01
A History Of English Opera written by Eric Walter White and has been published by London : Faber and Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-01-01 with Opera categories.
Appendix: "Rules and Regulations of the Royal English Opera"p.439ff
A History Of English Opera
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Author : Eric Walter White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
A History Of English Opera written by Eric Walter White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with categories.
A Short History Of Opera
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Author : Donald Jay Grout
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2003
A Short History Of Opera written by Donald Jay Grout and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Opera categories.
"The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day."--Jacket.
English Dramatick Opera 1661 1706
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Author : Andrew R. Walkling
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-19
English Dramatick Opera 1661 1706 written by Andrew R. Walkling and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-19 with Music categories.
English Dramatick Opera, 1661–1706 is the first comprehensive examination of the distinctively English form known as "dramatick opera", which appeared on the London stage in the mid-1670s and lasted until its displacement by Italian through-composed opera in the first decade of the eighteenth century. Andrew Walkling argues that, while the musical elements of this form are crucial to its definition and history, the origins of the genre lie principally in a tradition of spectacular stagecraft that first manifested itself in England in the mid-1660s as part of a hitherto unidentified dramatic sub-genre, to which Walkling gives the name "spectacle-tragedy". Armed with this new understanding, the book explores a number of historical and interpretive issues, including the physical and rhetorical configurations of performative spectacle, the administrative maneuverings of the two "patent" theatre companies, the construction and deployment of the technologically advanced Dorset Garden Theatre in 1670–71, the critical response to generic, technical, and ideological developments in Restoration drama, and the shifting balance between machine spectacle and song-and-dance entertainment throughout the later decades of the seventeenth century, including in the dramatick operas of Henry Purcell. This study combines the materials and methodologies of music history, theatre history, literary studies, and bibliography to fashion an entirely new approach to the history of spectacular and musical drama on the English Restoration stage. This book serves as a companion to the Routledge publication Masque and Opera in England, 1656–1688 (2017).
Opera
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Author : Christopher Headington
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1987
Opera written by Christopher Headington and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Music categories.
A History Of Opera
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Author : Carolyn Abbate
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-11-01
A History Of Opera written by Carolyn Abbate and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Music categories.
Opera is in many ways the most extraordinary artistic medium of the last four hundred years. Prohibitively expensive and patently unrealistic, it can nevertheless paint the human passions with astonishing power and drama. This book, the first new, full-length, single-volume history of opera for more than a generation provokes in-depth discussions of many works by the greatest opera composers, from Monteverdi, Handel and Mozart, to Verdi and Wagner, to Strauss, Puccini, Berg, and Britten. There are lively discussions of opera's social, political and literary background, its economic cicumstances and the almost continual polemics that have accompanied its development through the centuries. Central to the book is an exploration of the tensions that have always sustained and enlivened opera. Abbate and Parker examine the problems that opera has faced in the last half century, when new works - which were once opera's life-blood - have shrunk to a tiny minority, have largely failed to find a permanent place in the repertoire. Yet the book's final message is one of celebration. Even if the majority of opera's most popular and enduring works were written in what is now a remote European past, in circumstances very different from our own, and the viability of contemporary opera is ever more in question, opera as an art form remains extraordinarily buoyant and challenging. It continues to transform people physically, emotionally, and intellectually, and to articulate human experience in ways no other art form can match.
Music And Nationalism
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Author : Cecil Forsyth
language : en
Publisher: London, Macmillan
Release Date : 1911
Music And Nationalism written by Cecil Forsyth and has been published by London, Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1911 with Opera categories.
Music And Nationalism
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Author : Cecil Forsyth
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-15
Music And Nationalism written by Cecil Forsyth and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-15 with Music categories.
Excerpt from Music and Nationalism: A Study of English Opera To those who are familiar with the broad paths of Musical History, and more particularly with that narrow byway, English Opera, this book may seem to call, perhaps not for an apology, but at any rate for an explanation. So far as I am aware, no book has been wholly devoted either to giving an account of the forces which have influenced the Musical Stage in England, or even to drawing up that catalogue of Operatic names, dates, and places which, with a few personal likes and dislikes, generally does duty in this country for a serious æsthetic. It is as a first attempt to fill the former gap that this book has been written. My original intention was merely to mark what I may call the high and low-water marks of our English Operatic activity. But, in trying to bring them into some sort of co-ordination with our other national activities, so many difficulties arose, so many perplexing and apparently inexplicable phenomena came to light, that I was compelled to go outside the narrow limits which I had set myself and to study the more general relationships of National life and Musical Productivity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Music Nationalism A Study Of
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Author : Cecil 1870-1941 Forsyth
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2016-08-28
Music Nationalism A Study Of written by Cecil 1870-1941 Forsyth and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-28 with History categories.
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English Opera From 1834 To 1864 With Particular Reference To The Works Of Michael Balfe
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Author : George Biddlecombe
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-11-06
English Opera From 1834 To 1864 With Particular Reference To The Works Of Michael Balfe written by George Biddlecombe and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-06 with History categories.
First published in 1994. This study sets out to investigate English opera from 1834 to 1864. The author attempts to understand the circumstances influencing the development of English nineteenth-century opera, its characteristic features, and the reasons why these traits held sway. This title will be of great interest to students of art and cultural history.