The Oxford Handbook Of Opera
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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 Oxford Handbook Of The Operatic Canon
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Author : Cormac Newark
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-08-20
The Oxford Handbook Of The Operatic Canon written by Cormac Newark 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 2020-08-20 with Music categories.
Opera has always been a vital and complex mixture of commercial and aesthetic concerns, of bourgeois politics and elite privilege. In its long heyday in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it came to occupy a special place not only among the arts but in urban planning, too this is, perhaps surprisingly, often still the case. The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon examines how opera has become the concrete edifice it was never meant to be, by tracing its evolution from a market entirely driven by novelty to one of the most canonic art forms still in existence. Throughout the book, a lively assembly of musicologists, historians, and industry professionals tackle key questions of opera's past, present, and future. Why did its canon evolve so differently from that of concert music? Why do its top ten titles, all more than a century old, now account for nearly a quarter of all performances worldwide? Why is this system of production becoming still more top-heavy, even while the repertory seemingly expands, notably to include early music? Topics range from the seventeenth century to the present day, from Russia to England and continental Europe to the Americas. To reflect the contested nature of many of them, each is addressed in paired chapters. These complement each other in different ways: by treating the same geographical location in different periods, by providing different national or regional perspectives on the same period, or by thinking through similar conceptual issues in contrasting or changing contexts. Posing its questions in fresh, provocative terms, The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon challenges scholarly assumptions in music and cultural history, and reinvigorates the dialogue with an industry that is, despite everything, still growing.
The Oxford Handbook Of The British Musical
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Author : Robert Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
The Oxford Handbook Of The British Musical written by Robert Gordon 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 2016 with Music categories.
The first comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre from its origins, The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical offers both a historical account of musical theatre from 1728 and a range of in-depth critical analyses of key works and productions that illustrate its aesthetic values and sociocultural meanings.
The Oxford Illustrated History Of Opera
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Author : Roger Parker
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2001
The Oxford Illustrated History Of Opera written by Roger Parker 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 2001 with History categories.
A historical survey of opera, from its beginnings in Florence 400 years ago, up to opera in the 1990s.
The Oxford Handbook Of The Georgian Theatre 1737 1832
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Author : Julia Swindells
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2014-01-16
The Oxford Handbook Of The Georgian Theatre 1737 1832 written by Julia Swindells and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 provides an essential guide to theatre in Britain between the passing of the Stage Licensing Act in 1737 and the Reform Act of 1832 — a period of drama long neglected but now receiving significant scholarly attention. Written by specialists from a range of disciplines, its forty essays both introduce students and scholars to the key texts and contexts of the Georgian theatre and also push the boundaries of the field, asking questions that will animate the study of drama in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries for years to come. The Handbook gives equal attention to the range of dramatic forms — not just tragedy and comedy, but the likes of melodrama and pantomime — as they developed and overlapped across the period, and to the occasions, communities, and materialities of theatre production. It includes sections on historiography, the censorship and regulation of drama, theatre and the Romantic canon, women and the stage, and the performance of race and empire. In doing so, it shows the centrality of theatre to Georgian culture and politics, and paints a picture of a stage defined by generic fluidity and experimentation; by networks of performance that spread far beyond London; by professional women who played pivotal roles in every aspect of production; and by its complex mediation of contemporary attitudes of class, race, and gender.
The Oxford Handbook Of Music Education
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Author : Gary McPherson
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2012-09-06
The Oxford Handbook Of Music Education written by Gary McPherson and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-06 with Music categories.
The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Music Education offer a comprehensive overview of the many facets of musical experience, behavior and development in relation to the diverse variety of educational contexts in which they occur. In these volumes, contributors from around the world celebrate the diverse nature of music education internationally and present fresh and innovative principles and approaches to music learning and teaching.
The Oxford Handbook Of Music Listening In The 19th And 20th Centuries
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Author : Christian Thorau
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2018-12-03
The Oxford Handbook Of Music Listening In The 19th And 20th Centuries written by Christian Thorau 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 2018-12-03 with Music categories.
An idealized image of European concert-goers has long prevailed in historical overviews of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This act of listening was considered to be an invisible and amorphous phenomenon, a naturally given mode of perception. This narrative influenced the conditions of listening from the selection of repertoire to the construction of concert halls and programmes. However, as listening moved from the concert hall to the opera house, street music, and jazz venues, new and visceral listening traditions evolved. In turn, the art of listening was shaped by phenomena of the modern era including media innovation and commercialization. This Handbook asks whether, how, and why practices of music listening changed as the audience moved from pleasure gardens and concert venues in the eighteenth century to living rooms in the twentieth century, and mobile devices in the twenty-first. Through these questions, chapters enable a differently conceived history of listening and offer an agenda for future research.
The Oxford Handbook Of The American Musical
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Author : Raymond Knapp
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-03
The Oxford Handbook Of The American Musical written by Raymond Knapp 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 2013-03 with Drama categories.
This text presents keywords and critical terms that deepen analysis and interpretation of the musical. Taking into account issues of composition, performance, and reception, the book's contributors bring a range of practical and theoretical perspectives to bear on their considerations of American musicals.
The Oxford Handbook Of Music And Disability Studies
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Author : Blake Howe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Release Date : 2016
The Oxford Handbook Of Music And Disability Studies written by Blake Howe and has been published by Oxford Handbooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Music categories.
Disability is a broad, heterogeneous, and porous identity, and that diversity is reflected in the variety of bodily conditions under discussion here, including autism and intellectual disability, deafness, blindness, and mobility impairment often coupled with bodily deformity. Cultural Disability Studies has, from its inception, been oriented toward physical and sensory disabilities, and has generally been less effective in dealing with cognitive and intellectual impairments and with the sorts of emotions and behaviors that in our era are often medicalized as "mental illness." In that context, it is notable that so many of these essays are centrally concerned with madness, that broad and ever-shifting cultural category. There is also in impressive diversity of subject matter including YouTube videos, Ghanaian drumming, Cirque du Soleil, piano competitions, castrati, medieval smoking songs, and popular musicals. Amid this diversity of time, place, style, medium, and topic, the chapters share two core commitments.0First, they are united in their theoretical and methodological connection to Disability Studies, especially its central idea that disability is a social and cultural construction. Disability both shapes and is shaped by culture, including musical culture. Second, these essays individually and collectively make the case that disability is not something at the periphery of culture and music, but something central to our art and to our humanity.
The Oxford Handbook Of Sondheim Studies
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Author : Robert Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Release Date : 2014
The Oxford Handbook Of Sondheim Studies written by Robert Gordon 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.
This handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim's oeuvre. Chapters come from a remarkably wide range of disciplines as they offer new insights into Sondheim's work not only for the stage, but also for film and television, describing in full how Sondheim has re-shaped American musical theater.