The Invention Of Beethoven And Rossini
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The Invention Of Beethoven And Rossini
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Author : Nicholas Mathew
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-07
The Invention Of Beethoven And Rossini written by Nicholas Mathew 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 2013-11-07 with History categories.
Leading scholars re-evaluate the opposition between Beethoven and Rossini, the great symbolic duo of early nineteenth-century music.
Nineteenth Century Opera And The Scientific Imagination
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Author : David Trippett
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-22
Nineteenth Century Opera And The Scientific Imagination written by David Trippett 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 2021-07-22 with Music categories.
Scientific thinking has long been linked to music theory and instrument making, yet the profound and often surprising intersections between the sciences and opera during the long nineteenth century are here explored for the first time. These touch on a wide variety of topics, including vocal physiology, theories of listening and sensory communication, technologies of theatrical machinery and discourses of biological degeneration. Taken together, the chapters reveal an intertwined cultural history that extends from backstage hydraulics to drawing-room hypnotism, and from laryngoscopy to theatrical aeronautics. Situated at the intersection of opera studies and the history of science, the book therefore offers a novel and illuminating set of case studies, of a kind that will appeal to historians of both science and opera, and of European culture more generally from the French Revolution to the end of the Victorian period.
Rossini
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Author : Gaia Servadio
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 2003
Rossini written by Gaia Servadio and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Recounts the life of the nineteenth century Italian composer of such works as "The Barber of Seville" and "William Tell."
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.
Liszt S Representation Of Instrumental Sounds On The Piano
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Author : Hyun Joo Kim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Liszt S Representation Of Instrumental Sounds On The Piano written by Hyun Joo Kim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Arrangement (Music) categories.
Examines Liszt's piano arrangements of music originally created for other instruments, especially the symphony orchestra and the Hungarian Gypsy band.
The Romantic Overture And Musical Form From Rossini To Wagner
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Author : Steven Vande Moortele
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-27
The Romantic Overture And Musical Form From Rossini To Wagner written by Steven Vande Moortele 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 2017-04-27 with Music categories.
The first comprehensive study of musical form in operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850.
Rossini And Post Napoleonic Europe
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Author : Warren Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2015
Rossini And Post Napoleonic Europe written by Warren Roberts and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
Warren Roberts has discovered a Rossini that others have not seen, a composer who commented ironically and satirically on religion and politics in Post-Napoleonic Europe.
Music In The Present Tense
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Author : Emanuele Senici
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-11-13
Music In The Present Tense written by Emanuele Senici 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 2019-11-13 with Music categories.
In the early 1800s, Rossini’s operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private. But after Rossini stopped composing, a sharp decline in popularity drove most of his works out of the repertory. In the past half century, they have made a spectacular return to operatic stages worldwide, but this recent fame has not been accompanied by a comparable critical reevaluation. Emanuele Senici’s new book provides a fresh look at the motives behind the Rossinian furore and its aftermath by examining the composer’s works in the historical context in which they were conceived, performed, seen, heard, and discussed. Situating the operas firmly within the social practices, cultural formations, ideological currents, and political events of early nineteenth-century Italy, Senici reveals Rossini’s dramaturgy as a radically new and specifically Italian reaction to the epoch-making changes witnessed in Europe at the time. The first book-length study of Rossini’s Italian operas to appear in English, Music in the Present Tense exposes new ways to explore nineteenth-century music and addresses crucial issues in the history of modernity, such as trauma, repetition, and the healing power of theatricality.
Italian Opera In Global And Transnational Perspective
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Author : Axel Körner
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-24
Italian Opera In Global And Transnational Perspective written by Axel Körner 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 2022-03-24 with Music categories.
This volume of essays discusses the European and global expansion of Italian opera and the significance of this process for debates on opera at home in Italy. Covering different parts of Europe, the Americas, Southeast and East Asia, it investigates the impact of transnational musical exchanges on notions of national identity associated with the production and reception of Italian opera across the world. As a consequence of these exchanges between composers, impresarios, musicians and audiences, ideas of operatic Italianness (italianit...) constantly changed and had to be reconfigured, reflecting the radically transformative experience of time and space that throughout the nineteenth century turned opera into a global aesthetic commodity. The book opens with a substantial introduction discussing key concepts in cross-disciplinary perspective and concludes with an epilogue relating its findings to different historiographical trends in transnational opera studies.
Beethoven Freedom
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Author : Daniel K L Chua
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-07-18
Beethoven Freedom written by Daniel K L Chua 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 2017-07-18 with Music categories.
Over the last two centuries, Beethoven's music has been synonymous with the idea of freedom, in particular a freedom embodied in the heroic figure of Prometheus. This image arises from a relatively small circle of heroic works from the composer's middle period, most notably the Eroica Symphony. However, the freedom associated with the Promethean hero has also come under considerably critique by philosophers, theologians and political theorists; its promise of autonomy easily inverts into various forms of authoritarianism, and the sovereign will it champions is not merely a liberating force but a discriminatory one. Beethoven's freedom, then, appears to be increasingly problematic; yet his music is still employed today to mark political events from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the attacks of 9/11. Even more problematic, perhaps, is the fact that this freedom has shaped the reception of Beethoven music to such an extent that we forget that there is another kind of music in his oeuvre that is not heroic, a music that opens the possibility of a freedom yet to be articulated or defined. By exploring the musical philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno through a wide range of the composer's music, Beethoven and Freedom arrives at a markedly different vision of freedom. Author Daniel KL Chua suggests that a more human and fragile concept of freedom can be found in the music that has less to do with the autonomy of the will and its stoical corollary than with questions of human relation, donation, and a yielding to radical alterity. Chua's work makes a major and controversial statement by challenging the current image of Beethoven, and by suggesting an alterior freedom that can speak ethically to the twenty-first century.