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Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1102009067
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Handel's Julius Caesar written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2000-02-15 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miryana Dimitrova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474245773
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Julius Caesar's Self-Created Image and Its Dramatic Afterlife written by Miryana Dimitrova and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the extent to which aspects of Julius Caesar's self-representation in his commentaries, constituent themes and characterization have been appropriated or contested across the English dramatic canon from the late 1500s until the end of the 19th century. Caesar, in his own words, constructs his image as a supreme commander characterised by exceptional celerity and mercifulness; he is also defined by the heightened sense of self-dramatization achieved by the self-referential use of the third person and emerges as a quasi-divine hero inhabiting a literary-historical reality. Channelled through Lucan's epic Bellum Civile and ancient historiography, these Caesarean qualities reach drama and take the shape of ambivalent hubris, political role-playing, self-institutionalization, and an exceptional relationship with temporality. Focusing on major dramatic texts with rich performance history, such as Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Handel's opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto and Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra but also a number of lesser known early modern plays, the book encompasses different levels of drama's active engagement with the process of reception of Caesar's iconic and controversial personality.
Author : Jane Glover
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681779471
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Handel in London written by Jane Glover and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1712, a young German composer followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. That master would become King George II and the composer was George Freidrich Handel. Handel, then still only twenty-seven and largely self-taught, would be at the heart of music activity in London for the next four decades, composing masterpiece after masterpiece, whether the glorious coronation anthem, Zadok the Priest, operas such as Rinaldo and Alcina or the great oratorios, culminating, of course, in Messiah. Here, Jane Glover, who has conducted Handel’s work in opera houses and concert halls throughout the world, draws on her profound understanding of music and musicians to tell Handel’s story. It is a story of music-making and musicianship, but also of courts and cabals of theatrical rivalries and of eighteenth-century society. It is also, of course the story of some of the most remarkable music ever written, music that has been played and sung, and loved, in this country—and throughout the world—for three hundred years.
Author : Beverly Sills
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 9780553266474
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (664 download)
Download or read book Beverly written by Beverly Sills and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1988 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revealing, in-depth memoir of Beverly Sills as an international operatic superstar, director of the New York City Opera, mother and wife. In this candid autobiography, Sills finally unleashes the full power of her torrential personality and provides the key to her phenomenal success.
Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1930841205
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Julius Caesar written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Handel's JULIUS CAESAR, featuring Principal Characters in the opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and an insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis by Burton D. Fisher, noted opera author and lecturer.
Author : Ralph P. Locke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316298205
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart written by Ralph P. Locke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the years 1500–1800, European performing arts reveled in a kaleidoscope of Otherness: Middle-Eastern harem women, fortune-telling Spanish 'Gypsies', Incan priests, Barbary pirates, moresca dancers, and more. In this prequel to his 2009 book Musical Exoticism, Ralph P. Locke explores how exotic locales and their inhabitants were characterized in musical genres ranging from instrumental pieces and popular songs to oratorios, ballets, and operas. Locke's study offers new insights into much-loved masterworks by composers such as Cavalli, Lully, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck, and Mozart. In these works, evocations of ethnic and cultural Otherness often mingle attraction with envy or fear, and some pieces were understood at the time as commenting on conditions in Europe itself. Locke's accessible study, which includes numerous musical examples and rare illustrations, will be of interest to anyone who is intrigued by the relationship between music and cultural history, and by the challenges of cross-cultural (mis)understanding.
Author : Tim Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190247959
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Understanding Italian Opera written by Tim Carter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera is often regarded as the pinnacle of high art. A "Western" genre with global reach, it is where music and drama come together in unique ways, supported by stellar singers and spectacular scenic effects. Yet it is also patently absurd -- why should anyone break into song on the dramatic stage? -- and shrouded in mystique. In this engaging and entertaining guide, renowned music scholar Tim Carter unravels its many layers to offer a thorough introduction to Italian opera from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Eschewing the technical musical detail that all too often dominates writing on opera, Carter begins instead where the composers themselves did: with the text. Walking readers through the relationship between music and poetry that lies at the heart of any opera, Carter then offers explorations of five of the most enduring and emblematic Italian operas: Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea; Handel's Julius Caesar in Egypt; Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro; Verdi's Rigoletto; and Puccini's La Bohème. Shedding light on the creative collusions and collisions involved in bringing opera to the stage, the various, and varying, demands of the text and music, and the nature of its musical drama, Carter also shows how Italian opera has developed over the course of music history. Complete with synopses, cast lists, and suggested further reading for each work discussed, Understanding Italian Opera is a must-read for anyone with an interest in and love for this glorious art.
Author : Miryana Dimitrova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474245765
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Julius Caesar's Self-Created Image and Its Dramatic Afterlife written by Miryana Dimitrova and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the extent to which aspects of Julius Caesar's self-representation in his commentaries, constituent themes and characterization have been appropriated or contested across the English dramatic canon from the late 1500s until the end of the 19th century. Caesar, in his own words, constructs his image as a supreme commander characterised by exceptional celerity and mercifulness; he is also defined by the heightened sense of self-dramatization achieved by the self-referential use of the third person and emerges as a quasi-divine hero inhabiting a literary-historical reality. Channelled through Lucan's epic Bellum Civile and ancient historiography, these Caesarean qualities reach drama and take the shape of ambivalent hubris, political role-playing, self-institutionalization, and an exceptional relationship with temporality. Focusing on major dramatic texts with rich performance history, such as Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Handel's opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto and Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra but also a number of lesser known early modern plays, the book encompasses different levels of drama's active engagement with the process of reception of Caesar's iconic and controversial personality.
Author : Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300115260
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (152 download)
Download or read book First Nights at the Opera written by Thomas Forrest Kelly and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned music scholar narrates the social history of European opera during its golden age in the 18th and 19th centuries by taking readers behind the scenes at the premiere performances of five extraordinary and influential operas. 88 illustrations.
Author : Nathan Link
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197651348
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 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Poetics of Handel's Operas investigates the rich representational fabric of Handel's stories, drawing upon musicology, narratology, drama, and film in offering a study with appeal to scholars, producers and performers, opera afficionados, and anyone fascinated by storytelling. In most storytelling genres, we often distinguish between the story, on the one hand, and the way that story is represented, on the other, without a second thought. We know that a character in a film hears neither her own voice-over nor the ambient music that accompanies it, and that she does not really build a house from the ground up in the three minutes spanned by the cinematic montage that depict its construction. In opera, however, many commentators to this day characterize the medium as "unrealistic," since we know, for example, that people in the real world do not sing to each other, nor does orchestral music accompany their utterances. This said, the vocal and orchestral music, while not literally present in the world of the story surely have a great deal to tell us about the opera's story and its characters, and if we distinguish the performance we see and hear on the stage and in the orchestra pit from the story represented, we enable ourselves to construct stories that are no less coherent than those conveyed by other media. By avoiding conflation of the story and its representation, we enable ourselves to engage more meaningfully with the significance of these and many other unique aspects of operatic storytelling"--
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 : Joseph Kerman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312593473
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Listen written by Joseph Kerman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DVD contains 30 minutes of video excerpts and 16 audio tracks, keyed to the text.
Author : Betsy Schwarm
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426996683
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Classical Music Insights written by Betsy Schwarm and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you enjoy great music but want to know more about how it came to be the way it is - without investing time in a graduate degree - here are the background stories of over 200 great compositions. If you're only just coming to experiment with great music, here are guideposts to help you understand and enjoy what you encounter. The stories and sounds behind the scenes: welcome to Classical Music Insights.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544179153
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)
Download or read book CliffsComplete Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009-08-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature. CliffsComplete Julius Caesar offers insight and information into a work that's rich both dramatically and thematically. Every generation since Shakespeare's time has been able to identify with some political aspect of the play. Discover what happens to Rome's highly ambitious leader and to those who conspire to remove him from the ranks — and save valuable studying time — all at once. Enhance your reading of Julius Caesar with these additional features: A summary and insightful commentary for each chapter Bibliography and historical background on the author, William Shakespeare A look at Early Modern England intellectual, religious, political, and social context Coverage of Shakespeare's source and the play's performance history A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Review questions, a quiz, discussion guide, and activity ideas A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Web sites Streamline your literature study with all-in-one help from CliffsComplete guides!
Author : Phil G. Goulding
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307761843
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Ticket to the Opera written by Phil G. Goulding and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ticket to the Opera, Phil G. Goulding finally makes the magic and mystique of opera accessible to all. Here he offers a complete operatic education, including history, definitions of key musical terms, opera lore and gossip, portraits of famous singers and the roles they immortalized, as well as pithy introductions to the greatest operas of Europe and America and their composers. The book's centerpiece is what Goulding terms "the collection"--85 classics, among them Aida, The Marriage of Figaro, Carmen, and Madama Butterfly, that have been packing the world's opera houses for years. This entertaining, meticulously researched book also includes a fascinating chapter on American opera from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess to Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach and a discussion of the gems of twentieth-century opera featuring works like Leos Janácek's The Cunning Little Vixen, Alban Berg's Lulu, and Serge Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges. Whether you're a curious neophyte, a music lover interested in branching out, or an aficionado eager to compare notes with a brilliant fellow opera buff, you'll prize Ticket to the Opera as an essential volume in your music library.
Author : Thomas McGeary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139619470
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain written by Thomas McGeary and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain examines the involvement of Italian opera in British partisan politics in the first half of the eighteenth century, which saw Sir Robert Walpole's rise to power and George Frideric Handel's greatest period of opera production. McGeary argues that the conventional way of applying Italian opera to contemporary political events and persons by means of allegory and allusion in individual operas is mistaken; nor did partisan politics intrude into the management of the Royal Academy of Music and the Opera of the Nobility. This book shows instead how Senesino, Faustina, Cuzzoni and events at the Haymarket Theatre were used in political allegories in satirical essays directed against the Walpole ministry. Since most operas were based on ancient historical events, the librettos - like traditional histories - could be sources of examples of vice, virtue, and political precepts and wisdom that could be applied to contemporary politics.
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Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Musical Leader written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
