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Book Synopsis Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests by : David J. Buch
Download or read book Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests written by David J. Buch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them. David J. Buch reveals that despite—and perhaps even because of—their fundamental irrationality, fantastic and exotic themes acquired extraordinary force and popularity during the period, pervading theatrical works with music in the French, German, and Italian mainstream. Considering prominent compositions by Gluck, Rameau, and Haydn, as well as many seminal contributions by lesser-known artists, Buch locates the origins of these magical elements in such historical sources as ancient mythology, European fairy tales, the Arabian Nights, and the occult. He concludes with a brilliant excavation of the supernatural roots of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, building a new foundation for our understanding of the magical themes that proliferated in Mozart’s wake.
Book Synopsis Opera Remade, 1700-1750 by : Charles Dill
Download or read book Opera Remade, 1700-1750 written by Charles Dill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work. Recent research on this period has been especially fruitful, showing renewed interest in how opera operated within its local cultures, what audience members felt was at stake in opera performances, who the people-composers and performers-were who made opera possible. The essays for this volume capture the principal themes of current research: the "idea" of opera, opera criticism, the people of opera, and the emerging technologies of opera.
Book Synopsis 200 Years of National Philologies by : Christoph Strosetzki
Download or read book 200 Years of National Philologies written by Christoph Strosetzki and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 17 contributions in this volume pursue a positioning of the philologies, which - based on the 'Volksgeist' (popular spirit) of the 19th century and the cultural studies of the 20th century - must reposition themselves in the 21st century. The contributions address questions such as: What changes are occurring with increasing globalization? Are national literatures increasingly being absorbed into the so-called "world literature"? The authors come from the fields of Romance studies, German studies and English studies. They deal with topics of literary historiography, canonization, comparative literature, and also questions of the future.
Download or read book Mazarinades written by Houghton Library and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1976 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis "Opera Remade, 1700?750 " by : Charles Dill
Download or read book "Opera Remade, 1700?750 " written by Charles Dill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work. Recent research on this period has been especially fruitful, showing renewed interest in how opera operated within its local cultures, what audience members felt was at stake in opera performances, who the people-composers and performers-were who made opera possible. The essays for this volume capture the principal themes of current research: the "idea" of opera, opera criticism, the people of opera, and the emerging technologies of opera.
Book Synopsis Theatrum Mundi by : Claire L. Carlin
Download or read book Theatrum Mundi written by Claire L. Carlin and published by Rookwood Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback edition of homage volume published in hardcover May 2003.
Book Synopsis The Story of an Architect King by : Renata Tyszczuk
Download or read book The Story of an Architect King written by Renata Tyszczuk and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author explores the representational strategies of the modern period and their relation to political life through the story of Stanislas Leszczynski, architect king and roi bienfaisant, 'a king that does good'. The ingredients of his story are compelling. They include: an exiled king (who makes a cameo appearance in Voltaire's Candide and corresponds with Rousseau); a collection of writings that include aphorisms, political treatises, and a utopian novel; gardens that include a grotto of eighty-six life-size automata and an experimental village of courtiers; and architecture and landscapes that traverse the contested boundaries of central Europe, imaginary constructions of the orient, and the borderlines between fact and fiction. These come together to make a distinctive account of the transitional period in eighteenth-century culture. Stanislas' architectural and literary works were rooted in an acceptance of the uncertainty of the world more characteristic of the story. His 'hope of a better age' emerges as an endeavour - through the writing and the architecture - to find one's own meaning in history as well as a model for the good life. His story suggests a way of exploring what this struggle still entails today.
Download or read book The Eighteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Scandinavian Theatre by : Frederick J. Marker
Download or read book A History of Scandinavian Theatre written by Frederick J. Marker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A balanced and authoritative account of the theatrical history of all three Scandinavian countries.
Book Synopsis Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by : John Christian Laursen
Download or read book Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by John Christian Laursen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection, thirteen distinguished contributors examine the influence of the ancient skeptical philosophy of Pyrrho of Elis and Sextus Empiricus on early modern political thought. Classical skepticism argues that in the absence of certainty one must either suspend judgment and live by habit or act on the basis of probability rather than certainty. In either case, one must reject dogmatic confidence in politics and philosophy. Surveying the use of skepticism in works by Hobbes, Descartes, Hume, Smith, and Kant, among others, the essays in Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries demonstrate the pervasive impact of skepticism on the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe. This volume is not just an authoritative account of skepticism’s importance from the Enlightenment to the French Revolution, it is also the basis for understanding skepticism’s continuing political implications.
Book Synopsis Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustre by : Pierre Athanase Larousse
Download or read book Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustre written by Pierre Athanase Larousse and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gluck and the French Theatre in Vienna by : Bruce Alan Brown
Download or read book Gluck and the French Theatre in Vienna written by Bruce Alan Brown and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly illustrated study, the Viennese reform of opera and ballet is placed in the context of Christoph Gluck's decade-long involvement with the city's first French theatre, established in 1752. Following a detailed examination of the institutional and cultural frameworks of theatrical life in Maria Theresia's capital (drawing upon important new documentary sources), and of the interaction between Parisian and Viennese repertories, each of the areas of Gluck's activity in the Burgtheater--concerts, opera-comique, and ballet--and their products are examined in turn. Such masterworks as Orfeo ed Euridice and Don Juan are shown to be intimately connected with the regular musical repertory of the French theatre, which was itself rich in innovation; in addition, a large number of works by Gluck (and his colleagues) are identified and analyzed here for the first time.
Book Synopsis The Attraction of the Contrary by : Walter E. Rex
Download or read book The Attraction of the Contrary written by Walter E. Rex and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-09-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this 1987 volume examine the ideas of contrarity and other kinds of polar opposition in French literature of the eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis The Ritual Theater of Aimé Césaire by : Marianne Wichmann Bailey
Download or read book The Ritual Theater of Aimé Césaire written by Marianne Wichmann Bailey and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1992 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 by : Library of Congress. Music Division
Download or read book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 written by Library of Congress. Music Division and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 by : Oscar George Theodore Sonneck
Download or read book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 written by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thinking with Demons by : Stuart Clark
Download or read book Thinking with Demons written by Stuart Clark and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major work offers a new interpretation of the witchcraft beliefs of European intellectuals between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, showing how these beliefs fitted rationally with other beliefs of the period and how far the nature of rationality is dependent on its historical context.
