Le Arti Della Scena E L Esotismo In Et Moderna
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Italian Opera In The Age Of The American Revolution
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Author : Pierpaolo Polzonetti
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-17
Italian Opera In The Age Of The American Revolution written by Pierpaolo Polzonetti 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 2011-03-17 with Music categories.
Polzonetti reveals how revolutionary America inspired eighteenth-century European audiences, and how it can still inspire and entertain us.
Operatic Pasticcios In 18th Century Europe
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Author : Berthold Over
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2021-04-30
Operatic Pasticcios In 18th Century Europe written by Berthold Over and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-30 with Art categories.
In Early Modern times, techniques of assembling, compiling and arranging pre-existing material were part of the established working methods in many arts. In the world of 18th-century opera, such practices ensured that operas could become a commercial success because the substitution or compilation of arias fitting the singer's abilities proved the best recipe for fulfilling the expectations of audiences. Known as »pasticcios« since the 18th-century, these operas have long been considered inferior patchwork. The volume collects essays that reconsider the pasticcio, contextualize it, define its preconditions, look at its material aspects and uncover its aesthetical principles.
Culture And Diplomacy
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Author : Reinhard Eisendle
language : en
Publisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Release Date : 2023-12-22
Culture And Diplomacy written by Reinhard Eisendle and has been published by Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-22 with History categories.
Diplomats had multiple tasks: not only negotiating with the representatives of other states, but also mediating culture and knowledge, and not least elaborating reports on their observations of politics, society, and culture. Culture, according to the studies featured in this book, is defined as a complex sphere including aspects like systems of communication, literature, music, arts, education, and the creation of knowledge. This edition containing contributions from six conferences held in Vienna and Istanbul by the Don Juan Archiv Wien focuses on the complex diplomatic and cultural relations between the Ottoman Empire and Europe from the time of the early embassies to Istanbul up to "Tanzimat".
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.
Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source. Viewing opera as a complex and fascinating form of art and social ritual, rather than reducing it simply to music and text analysis, individual essays investigate aspects such as audiences, architecture of the theaters, marketing, acting style, and the politics and strategy of representing class and gender. Overall, the volume provides a synthesis of well established knowledge, reflects recent research on eighteenth-century opera, and stimulates further research. The reader is encouraged to view opera as a cultural phenomenon that can reveal aspects of our culture, both past and present. Eighteenth-century opera is experiencing continuing critical and popular success through innovative and provoking productions world-wide, and this Companion will appeal to opera goers as well as to students and teachers of this key topic.
Pagodas In Play
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Author : Adrienne Ward
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2010
Pagodas In Play written by Adrienne Ward and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Music categories.
Pagodas in Play analyzes the treatment of China in the imaginative and spectacular world of eighteenth-century Italian opera. It shows how Italians used perceptions of Chinese culture to address local and transnational developments, particularly Enlightenment and secular reform initiatives. Its focus on the texts and performance practices of opera, an entertainment form accessible to a wide public, reveals cultural operations and identities harder to detect in non-fictional reformist writings, the texts traditionally privileged to explain Italian mediations of Enlightenment ideas. In its close reading of nine libretti of the most salient Settecento operas treating China (opere serie and opere buffe by authors including Metastasio, Zeno, Goldoni and Lorenzi), Pagodas in Play differentiates Italian iterations of Chinese culture from French and English counterparts. It further challenges certain tenets of orientalism, showing how it operates when nationalist and/or colonialist projects are absent, and how orientalist practices in eighteenth-century Italy exhibit early on the complexity some scholars locate only in the twentieth century. Adrienne Ward teaches Italian literature and culture at the University of Virginia.
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.
Vivaldi Motezuma And The Opera Seria
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Author : Michael Talbot
language : en
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Release Date : 2008
Vivaldi Motezuma And The Opera Seria written by Michael Talbot and has been published by Brepols Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Music categories.
Great was the interest among Vivaldians and opera-lovers when a score of a large portion of Vivaldi's lost opera Motezuma (1733) was unexpectedly discovered among manuscripts from the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin returned to Berlin from Kiev in 2000. The find was providential, since in recent decades practically all of Vivaldi's performable operatic music has been presented to the public. The newly discovered work has thus given a much-needed fillip to everyone concerned with Vivaldi's operas. Scholarly discussion was initiated in an international symposium held at the De Doelen concert hall in Rotterdam in June 2005 alongside the work's first modern performance. From the start, it was planned that the papers read at the symposium, augmented by essays commissioned from other scholars, would be gathered into a book centring on Motezuma. The starting point for the contributions, all of which appear in English, is Steffen Voss's 'Vivaldi's Music for the Opera Motezuma, RV 723'. This focuses on the opera itself: its origins, transmission, dramaturgy and music. Reinhard Strohm follows with 'Vivaldi and His Operas, 1730-1734: A Critical Survey': a chronicle of Vivaldi's operatic activities during the creative period surrounding Motezuma. Strohm's essay enables one to identify more clearly what is typical - for Vivaldi and for its period - in Motezuma, and what is less typical. Micky White and Michael Talbot then offer a sidelight on Venetian opera from the same period by charting the chequered career of a nephew of Vivaldi in 'Pietro Mauro, detto 'il Vivaldi': Failed Tenor, Failed Impresario, Failed Husband, Acclaimed Copyist'. Briefly, during the late 1730s, Mauro's career in opera mirrored Vivaldi's own at a humbler level, and a scandal in which the former became embroiled may even have had repercussions for his uncle. We move next to the world of librettos and dramaturgy. The 'American' dimension of the opera is explored in Jurgen Maehder's 'Alvise Giusti's Libretto Motezuma and the Conquest of Mexico in Eighteenth-Century Italian Opera Seria'. To choose an American subject for an opera seria was a novelty at the time, and the libretto for Motezuma casts an interesting light on contemporary attitudes towards the Conquista and towards the indigenous civilizations that it brought to a brutal end. Carlo Vitali's essay 'A Case of Historical Revisionism in the Theatre: Some Undeclared Sources for Vivaldi's Motezuma' probes more deeply into the libretto's historical antecedents. Melania Bucciarelli, in 'Taming the exotic: Vivaldi's Armida al campo d'Egitto', explores the treatment of an Ottoman theme in a Vivaldi opera of the period leading up to Motezuma. In a sense, the Ottoman empire formed a prototype of 'alterity' on which later operatic depictions of non-European peoples could draw, while also supplying a test-bed for the treatment of topical subjects during a tense period of intermittent warfare with the Sublime Porte. The next two contributions redirect the focus towards the music of Motezuma. Kurt Markstrom, in 'The Vivaldi-Vinci Interconnections, 1724-26 and beyond: Implications for the Late Style of Vivaldi', considers the interaction in the operatic arena between Vivaldi and his brilliant contemporary Leonardo Vinci, who briefly burst on to the Venetian scene in the 1720s before his premature death in 1730 robbed the all-conquering Neapolitan style of one of its heroes. Markstrom shows how Vivaldi was both influenced by, and an influence on, Vinci. Michael Talbot's essay 'Vivaldi's 'Late' Style: Final Fruition or Terminal Decline?' ponders whether there is any objective basis in positing a 'late' style in Vivaldi's case and, if so, where its boundaries lie. His conclusion is that there is indeed a late style, beginning in the second half of the 1720s and divisible into two sub-periods, with Motezuma close to the end of the first. 'Final fruition' is an apt description of the first sub-period, 'terminal decline' (with qualifications) of the second. Fittingly, the concluding essay, Frederic Delamea's 'Vivaldi in scena: Thoughts on The Revival of Vivaldi's Operas', confronts the world of present-day staged performance. Why, this author asks, do we commonly pay such respect to notions of historical fidelity in the musical realization of the operas, while we trample so brutally on authenticity in the matter of stagecraft and production. This essay promises to become a seminal text for an ongoing debate.
La Bibbia All Opera
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Author : Franco Piperno
language : it
Publisher: NeoClassica
Release Date : 2018
La Bibbia All Opera written by Franco Piperno and has been published by NeoClassica this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Music categories.
Perché scegliere la Bibbia per il libretto di un’opera? Che cosa hanno in comune il Nabucco di Verdi e il Mosè di Rossini? Franco Piperno ci aiuta a rispondere queste domande con il suo primo libro pubblicato per NeoClassica. A partire dalla metà degli anni ’80 del 1700 a Napoli e in altre piazze teatrali italiane venne aggiunta al calendario operistico una stagione in tempo di quaresima caratterizzata da opere su soggetto veterotestamentario. Da questo momento prende avvio e si consolida una tradizione di sacrodrammi biblici che giungerà fino al Nabucodonosor di Giuseppe Verdi e Temistocle Solera(1842), di fatto e di diritto appartenente alla predetta tradizione. Il libro delinea aspetti di drammaturgia e di strategia produttiva di questo repertorio, esamina la tradizione precedente e la successiva ricezione di sacrodrammi esemplari come il Mosè in Egitto di Rossini, considera le diverse motivazioni che le politiche culturali in Italia degli anni rivoluzionari, poi giacobini indi della Restaurazione hanno espresso per ora sostenere, ora tollerare questo particolare filone operistico.
Ad Parnassum
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Ad Parnassum written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Instrumental music categories.
Concierto Barroco
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Author : Alejo Carpentier
language : es
Publisher: Ediciones AKAL
Release Date : 2011-03-15
Concierto Barroco written by Alejo Carpentier and has been published by Ediciones AKAL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with Literary Collections categories.
¿Es posible enjaular un sol? ¿Estaría en su sano juicio quien se propusiera como tarea irrenunciable meter en una jaula un astro de tan descomunal tamaño? Pues aunque, dicho así, parezca una pretensión inútil, alucinantemente desaforada y propia de un ensueño, Alejo Carpentier no dejaba de intentarlo una y otra vez a lo largo de su vida. En esta breve pieza titulada Concierto barroco el autor consiguió transmutar esa pretensión en un bazar novelístico de singulares trampantojos para hacernos soñar, incluso, que podemos escuchar con nuestros ojos lectores una perdida música callada y asistir, en novelesca fantasmagoría, a la representación de una ópera vivaldiana. Estamos ante una obra en cuyas páginas se atesoran, con sorprendente capacidad de concentración, los más señalados virtuosismos propios del ingenio carpentieriano.