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Author : Winton Dean
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Handel and the Opera Seria written by Winton Dean and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reinhard Strohm
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300064544
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (645 download)
Download or read book Dramma Per Musica written by Reinhard Strohm and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Dramma per musica', the most usual term for Italian serious opera from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, was a modern, enlightened form of theater that presented a unified, artistically designed, dramatic enactment of human stories, expressed by the voice and underscored by the orchestra. This book illustrates the diversity of this baroque art form and explains how it has given us opera as we know it.
Author : Martha Feldman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226044548
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Opera and Sovereignty written by Martha Feldman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Reinhard Strohm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521088350
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Essays on Handel and Italian Opera written by Reinhard Strohm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinhard Strohm examines the relationship between Handel's great operas and the earlier European Baroque tradition.
Author : Winton Dean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Handel's Operas, 1704-1726 written by Winton Dean and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This volume is a monument to the source-critical method. It is a rigorous investigation of the bewilderingly abundant musical and literary sources of each opera, and its most lasting influence will be on all future editions of Handel's music.'
Author : Nathan Link
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197651364
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book A Poetics of Handel's Operas written by Nathan Link and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should we consider when thinking about the relationship between an onstage performance and the story the performance tells? A Poetics of Handel's Operas explores this question by analyzing the narratives of Handel's operas in relation to the rich representational fabric of performance used to convey them. Nathan Link notes that in most storytelling genres, the audience can naturally discern between a story and the way that story is represented: with film, for example, the viewer would recognize that a character hears neither her own voiceover nor the ambient music that accompanies it, whereas in discussions of opera, some audiences may be distracted by the seemingly artificial nature of such conventions as characters singing their dialogue. Link proposes that when engaging with opera, distinguishing between the performance we see and hear on the stage and the story represented offers a meaningful approach to engaging with and interpreting the work. Handel's operas are today the most-performed works in the Baroque opera seria tradition. This genre, with its intricate dramaturgy and esoteric conventions, stands to gain much from an investigation into the relationships between the onstage performance and the story to which that performance directs us. In his analysis, Link offers theoretical studies on opera and narratological theories of literature, drama, and film, providing rich engagement with Handel's work and what it conveys about the relationship between text, story, and performance.
Author : Corbett Bazler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Comedies of Opera Seria written by Corbett Bazler and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores the ways in which Handel's late operas intersect with other forms of theater in mid-eighteenth-century London. It seeks to explain how certain comic features of these late works--from the lighter subject matter of the libretti to Handel's unconventional musical settings--can be seen to echo the heated criticism leveled at Italian opera seria during this period, criticism usually voiced by satirical pamphlets and operatic parodies. It concludes that so-called "serious opera" was not always taken too seriously by London audiences, or even by Handel himself. Instead, opera reception in eighteenth-century London was much more complex, sometimes even contradictory: avid operagoers were often generous patrons of operatic burlesque, and considered ridicule, disruption, and laughter an integral part of their operagoing experience. By tracing the points of contact between Italian opera and British theatrical life, this dissertation examines the ways in which the "comedies" of opera seria, both as historical phenomena and as potentially fruitful sites for theoretical investigation, offer a new picture of the eighteenth-century dramma per musica.
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (699 download)
Download or read book Handel's Operas written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Winton Dean
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Handel and the Opera Seria written by Winton Dean and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Kimbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316531163
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Handel on the Stage written by David Kimbell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the great composers of the eighteenth century, Handel was the supreme cosmopolitan, an early and extraordinarily successful example of a freelance composer. For thirty years the opera-house was the principal focus of his creative work and he composed more than forty operas over this period. In this book, David Kimbell sets Handel's operas in their biographical and cultural contexts. He explores the circumstances in which they were composed and performed, the librettos that were prepared for Handel, and what they tell us about his and his audience's values and the music he composed for them. Remarkably no Handel operas were staged for a period of 170 years between 1754 and the 1920s. The final chapter in this book reveals the differences and similarities between how Handel's operas were performed in his time and ours.
Author : Paul Henry Lang
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486144593
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book George Frideric Handel written by Paul Henry Lang and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exceptionally full, detailed study of the man, his music and times. Childhood, music training, years in London; analysis of Messiah and other works; much more. Introduction. Includes 35 illustrations.
Author : Donald Burrows
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521456135
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (561 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Handel written by Donald Burrows and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to one of the principal creative figures in Baroque music.
Author : Suzanne Aspden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107067766
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Rival Sirens written by Suzanne Aspden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry fostered between the singers in 1720s London was in large part a social construction, one conditioned by local theatrical context and audience expectations, and heightened by manipulations of plot and music. This book offers readings of operas by Handel and Bononcini as performance events, inflected by the audience's perceptions of singer persona and contemporary theatrical and cultural contexts. Through examining the case of these two women, Suzanne Aspden demonstrates that the personae of star performers, as well as their voices, were of crucial importance in determining the shape of an opera during the early part of the eighteenth century.
Author : Kurt Sven Markstrom
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (142 download)
Download or read book The Opera Arias of Handel written by Kurt Sven Markstrom and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is intended as an investigation of the form and content of Handel's opera arias. Although other aspects of Handel's operas are considered, the primary attention is placed upon the aria because it is the most important musical element in the genre of opera seria. An adequate understanding of Handel's achievements as an opera composer is difficult without some knowledge of early eighteenth-cen tury opera, and therefore, the first chapter consists of a brief sur vey of the opera seria convention-its libretti, its singers, and its music. The basic elements of opera seria are discussed separately, with special emphasis on the formal and stylistic evolution of the da capo aria as represented in the music of two of the foremost composers of opera seria -Alessandro Scarlatti and Johann Adolph Hasse. A similar analytical approach is employed in the second chapter, which is a study of Handel's operas as seen through six representative works: Giulio Cesare, Tamerlano , Rodelinda , Orlando, Ariodante , and Alcina. These operas have been chosen because they represent Handel's two main periods of operatic activity: Giulio Cesare (1724), Tamerlano (1724), and Rodelinda (1725), were written during the middle of the first Royal Academy period, 1720-1728; and Orlando (1733), Ariodante (1735), and Aloina (1735), were written during the second Royal Academy period, 1729-1737. In addition, these six operas are perhaps the most dramatically successful and least obscure of Handel's operas, and may someday enter the standard operatic repertoire. After a brief discus sion of Handel's opera career, libretti, singers, and musical style, the musical elements of his operas are studied separately. From the background material contained in the first chapter, one can determine how closely Handel followed the operatic conventions of his day, and the ways in which he deviated from these conventions. A model of the typical Handelian da capo aria is established in order to compare this form with the da capo form of his contemporaries. The final section of this chapter examines Handel's dramatic manipulation of aria form, analysing the various techniques employed by the composer to enhance the dramatic action of his operas. The third chapter concentrates on the emotional content in Handel's arias. His treatment of the Doctrine of the Affections is examined to establish the basic vocabulary employed by the composer to convey the emotional content of his arias to contemporary audiences. Finally, mu sical characterization is investigated. The portrayal of character through music, which is perhaps the most important and also the most elusive talent of a great opera composer, is evident in the operas of Handel. The author attempts to discover the techniques employed by the composer in the creation of the life-like characters which are found in his operas.
Author : E. A. Bucchianeri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789899684430
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Handel's Path to Covent Garden written by E. A. Bucchianeri and published by . This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Classical music lovers are familiar with George Frideric Handel's famous oratorio, "Messiah," but are not aware his preferred area of composition was Italian opera seria. Biographical books explore his career as an opera composer and the rise of the new pious genre when Italian opera was no longer popular in London, but rarely do we find detailed accounts or discussions on that tempestuous period in the 1730s when this shift in populaity forced Handel to leave the Haymarket theatre and join with John Rich at Covent Garden where he tried to carry on the Royal Academy opera company in competition with the new Opera of the Nobility venture founded by the Prince of Wales before he was finally forced to abandon opera in favour of oratorio. This book explores this rocky transition period and how it affected Handel's work, namely, his inclusion of French elements to his operas and other novel innovations in order to regain his chagrined public. There are discussions exploring the possibility Handel was his own worse enemy with regards to his business decisions as impresario-composer, alienating the Italians of London and his public, which nearly cost him his career. A fascinating study for Handel admirers. ..". There were so many details raised and questions asked which make the reader really excited and interested in the period and what was happening. ... There are many, many details which just suddenly bring home to you, 'My goodness, (opera production) was different in those days!' ... There are many things that jumped out of this book at me ..." - David Adams, 'Into the Evening', Lyric FM Classical Music Radio Ireland
Author : Sarah Yuill McCleave
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580464203
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Dance in Handel's London Operas written by Sarah Yuill McCleave and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the pivotal role of dance in the Italian operas of Handel, perhaps the greatest opera composer between Monteverdi and Mozart. George Frideric Handel set himself apart from his contemporaries by employing choreographed instrumental music to complement and reinforce the emotional impact of his operas. Of his fifty-three operas, no fewer than fourteen -- including ten written for the London stage -- feature dances. Dance in Handel's London Operas explores the relationship between music, drama, and dance in these London works, dispelling the notion that dance was a largely peripheral element in Italian-language operas prior to those of Gluck. Taking a chronological approach, Sarah McCleave examines operas written throughout various periods in Handel's life, beginning with his early London operas, including his time at the Royal Music Academy and the "Sallé" operas of the 1730s, and concluding with his unstaged dramatic opera Alceste (1750). In considering the various influences on Handel (particularly the London stage), McCleave blends analysis of information from eighteenth-century treatises with that found in more modern studies, offering an informed and imaginative understanding of the role dance played in the work of this major figure --one who remained responsive throughout his career to the vital and innovative theatrical environment in which he worked. Sarah McCleave is a lecturer at The School of Creative Arts at Queen's University Belfast.
Author : C. Steven LaRue
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198163152
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Handel and His Singers written by C. Steven LaRue and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1995 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early 18th century until the present day, opera seria as practised by Handel and his contemporaries has been the subject of satire and even derision for its dramatic artifice and virtuosic displays. Close examination of Handel's autograph manuscripts, the librettos upon which they were based, and other contemporary documents, reveal the extent to which Handel was influenced by his singers and their abilities in creating his commercially successful and dramatically effective operas. Drawing on evidence from these sources, the author demonstrates the fact that Handel's singers (such as Francesco Borosini, Margherita Durastanti, Francesca Cuzzoni, and Faustina Bordoni) were the single most important influence on his opera composition during his tenure as composer and music director of the Royal Academy of Music from 1719-28.
