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Author : Anthony R. DelDonna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 34,15 MB
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521873584
The perfect accompaniment to courses on eighteenth-century opera for both students and teachers, this Companion is a definitive reference resource.
Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521780094
This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a distinguished team of academics, critics and practitioners. Beginning with a discussion of the century's vital inheritance from late-romantic operatic traditions in Germany and Italy, the text embraces fresh investigations into various aspects of the genre in the modern age, with a comprehensive coverage of the work of individual composers from Debussy and Schoenberg to John Adams and Harrison Birtwistle. Traditional stylistic categorizations (including symbolism, expressionism, neo-classicism and minimalism) are reassessed from new critical perspectives, and the distinctive operatic traditions of Continental and Eastern Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and United States are subjected to fresh scrutiny. The volume includes essays devoted to avant-garde music theatre, operettas and musicals, filmed opera, and ends with a discussion of the position of the genre in today's cultural marketplace.
Author : Jacqueline Waeber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 2022-12-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108915914
The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera is a much-needed introduction to one of the most defining areas of Western music history - the birth of opera and its developments during the first century of its existence. From opera's Italian foundations to its growth through Europe and the Americas, the volume charts the changing landscape – on stage and beyond – which shaped the way opera was produced and received. With a range from opera's sixteenth-century antecedents to the threshold of the eighteenth century, this path breaking book is broad enough to function as a comprehensive introduction, yet sufficiently detailed to offer valuable insights into most of early opera's many facets; it guides the reader towards authoritative written and musical sources appropriate for further study. It will be of interest to a wide audience, including undergraduate and graduate students in universities and equivalent institutions, and amateur and professional musicians.
Author : David Charlton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 2003-09-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139825895
This 2003 Companion is a fascinating and accessible exploration of the world of grand opera. Through this volume a team of scholars and writers on opera examine those important Romantic operas which embraced the Shakespearean sweep of tragedy, history, love in time of conflict, and the struggle for national self-determination. Rival nations, rival religions and violent resolutions are common elements, with various social or political groups represented in the form of operatic choruses. The book traces the origins and development of a style created during an increasingly technical age, which exploited the world-renowned skills of Parisian stage-designers, artists, and dancers as well as singers. It analyses in detail the grand operas by Rossini, Auber, Meyerbeer and Halévy, discusses grand opera in Russia and Germany, and also in the Czech lands, Italy, Britain and the Americas. The volume also includes an essay by the renowned opera director David Pountney.
Author : Nicholas Till
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521855616
The first comprehensive attempt to map the current field of opera studies by leading scholars in the discipline.
Author : Scott L. Balthazar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521635356
This Companion provides a biographical, theatrical, and social-cultural background for Verdi's operas, examines in detail important general aspects of its style and method of composing, and synthesizes stylistic themes in discussions of representative works. Aspects of Verdi's milieu, style, creative process, and critical reception are explored in essays by highly reputed specialists. Like others in the series this Companion is aimed primarily at students and opera lovers.
Author : Anthony DelDonna
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Music
ISBN : 140942278X
Anthony R. DelDonna provides a rich study of operatic culture from 1775-1800. The book demonstrates how contemporary stage traditions, stimulated by the Enlightenment, engaged with and responded to the changing social, political, and artistic contexts of the late eighteenth century in Naples. It focuses on select, yet representative, compositions from different genres of opera that illuminate the diverse contemporary cultural forces shaping these works and underlining the continued innovation and European recognition of operatic culture in Naples.
Author : Anastasia Belina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107182166
A collection of essays revealing how operetta spread across borders and became popular on the musical stages of the world.
Author : Pierpaolo Polzonetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 35,29 MB
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521897084
Polzonetti reveals how revolutionary America inspired eighteenth-century European audiences, and how it can still inspire and entertain us.
Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521001922
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