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Mimomania

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Author : Mary Ann Smart
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2004-03-10

Mimomania written by Mary Ann Smart and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-10 with Music categories.

When Nietzsche dubbed Richard Wagner "the most enthusiastic mimomaniac" ever to exist, he was objecting to a hollowness he felt in the music, a crowding out of any true dramatic impulse by extravagant poses and constant nervous movements. Mary Ann Smart suspects that Nietzsche may have seen and heard more than he realized. In Mimomania she takes his accusation as an invitation to listen to Wagner's music—and that of several of his near-contemporaries—for the way it serves to intensify the visible and the enacted. As Smart demonstrates, this productive fusion of music and movement often arises when music forsakes the autonomy so prized by the Romantics to function mimetically, underlining the sighs of a Bellini heroine, for instance, or the authoritarian footsteps of a Verdi baritone. Mimomania tracks such effects through readings of operas by Auber, Bellini, Meyerbeer, Verdi, and Wagner. Listening for gestural music, we find resemblance in unexpected places: between the overwrought scenes of supplication in French melodrama of the 1820s and a cluster of late Verdi arias that end with the soprano falling to her knees, or between the mute heroine of Auber’s La Muette de Portici and the solemn, almost theological pantomimic tableaux Wagner builds around characters such as Sieglinde or Kundry. Mimomania shows how attention to gesture suggests a new approach to the representation of gender in this repertoire, replacing aural analogies for voyeurism and objectification with a more specifically musical sense of how music can surround, propel, and animate the body on stage.

Mimomania

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Author : Mary Ann Smart
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2004

Mimomania written by Mary Ann Smart and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Music categories.

A contribution to the study of 19th century opera, this text focuses on the relationship between music and gesture to provide a new perspective that yields an array of insights.

Brecht At The Opera

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Author : Joy H. Calico
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-09-01

Brecht At The Opera written by Joy H. Calico and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-01 with Music categories.

From an award-winning author, the first thorough examination of the important influence of opera on Brecht’s writings. Brecht at the Opera looks at the German playwright's lifelong ambivalent engagement with opera. An ardent opera lover in his youth, Brecht later denounced the genre as decadent and irrelevant to modern society even as he continued to work on opera projects throughout his career. He completed three operas and attempted two dozen more with composers such as Kurt Weill, Paul Hindemith, Hanns Eisler, and Paul Dessau. Joy H. Calico argues that Brecht's simultaneous work on opera and Lehrstück in the 1920s generated the new concept of audience experience that would come to define epic theater, and that his revisions to the theory of Gestus in the mid-1930s are reminiscent of nineteenth-century opera performance practices of mimesis.

The Total Work Of Art

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Author : David Imhoof
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2016-07-01

The Total Work Of Art written by David Imhoof and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-01 with Art categories.

For two centuries, Gesamtkunstwerk—the ideal of the “total work of art”—has exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice, spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalization of art. Despite its popular conflation with the work of Richard Wagner, Gesamtkunstwerk’s lineage and legacies extend well beyond German Romanticism, as this wide-ranging collection demonstrates. In eleven compact chapters, scholars from a variety of disciplines trace the idea’s evolution in German-speaking Europe, from its foundations in the early nineteenth century to its manifold articulations and reimaginings in the twentieth century and beyond, providing an uncommonly broad perspective on a distinctly modern cultural form.

The Ballets Russes And Beyond

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Author : Davinia Caddy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-26

The Ballets Russes And Beyond written by Davinia Caddy 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 2012-04-26 with Music categories.

A fresh perspective on the Ballets Russes, focusing on relations between music, dance and the cultural politics of belle-époque Paris.

Hannah And Kira S Mimo Mania Walking Tour

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Author : Kira Feldman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Hannah And Kira S Mimo Mania Walking Tour written by Kira Feldman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Architecture categories.

Serial Forms

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Author : Clare Pettitt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020-06-04

Serial Forms written by Clare Pettitt and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-04 with Literary Criticism categories.

Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 proposes an entirely new way of reading the transition into the modern. It is the first book in a series of three which will take the reader up to the end of the First World War, moving from a focus on London to a global perspective. Serial Forms sets out the theoretical and historical basis for all three volumes. It suggests that, as a serial news culture and a stadial historicism developed together between 1815 and 1848, seriality became the dominant form of the nineteenth century. Through serial newsprint, illustrations, performances, and shows, the past and the contemporary moment enter into public visibility together. Serial Forms argues that it is through seriality that the social is represented as increasingly politically urgent. The insistent rhythm of the serial reorganizes time, recalibrates and rescales the social, and will prepare the way for the 1848 revolutions which are the subject of the next book. By placing their work back into the messy print and performance culture from which it originally appeared, Serial Forms is able to produce new and exciting readings of familiar authors such as Scott, Byron, Dickens, and Gaskell. Rather than offering a rarefied intellectual history or chopping up the period into 'Romantic' and 'Victorian', Clare Pettitt tracks the development of communications technologies and their impact on the ways in which time, history and virtuality are imagined.

Current Musicology

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Author : Austin Clarkson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Current Musicology written by Austin Clarkson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Music categories.

Grand Illusion

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Author : Gabriela Cruz
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020

Grand Illusion written by Gabriela Cruz and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Music categories.

A new and groundbreaking historical narrative, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera explores how technical innovations in Paris transformed the grand opera into a transcendent, dream-like audio-visual spectacle.

Music And Historical Critique

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Author : Gary Tomlinson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05

Music And Historical Critique written by Gary Tomlinson 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 History categories.

Music and Historical Critique provides a definitive collection of Gary Tomlinson's influential studies on critical musicology, with the watchword throughout being history. This collection gathers his most innovative essays and lectures, some of them published here for the first time, along with an introduction outlining the context of the contributions and commenting on their aims and significance. Music and Historical Critique provides a retrospective view of the author's achievements in bringing to the heart of musicological discourse both deep-seated experiences of the past and meditations on the historian's ways of understanding them.