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Opera and Drama

Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803297654
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Opera and Drama written by Richard Wagner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera and Drama outlines a new, revolutionary type of musical stage work, which would finally materialize as The Ring of the Nibelung. Wagner's music drama, as he called it, aimed at a union of poetry, drama, music, and stagecraft. ø In a rare book-length study, the composer discusses the enhancement of dramas by operatic treatment and the subjects that make the best dramas. The expected Wagnerian voltage is here: in his thinking about myths such as Oedipus, his theories about operatic goals and musical possibilities, his contempt for musical politics, his exaltation of feeling and fantasy, his reflections about genius, and his recasting of Schopenhauer. ø This edition includes the full text of volume 2 of William Ashton Ellis's 1893 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.

Wagner On Music And Drama

Author : Albert Goldman
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306803192
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Wagner On Music And Drama written by Albert Goldman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1988-03-22 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Giacomo Meyerbeer and Music Drama in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Author : Mark Everist
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100093912X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Giacomo Meyerbeer and Music Drama in Nineteenth-Century Paris written by Mark Everist and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century Paris attracted foreign musicians like a magnet. The city boasted a range of theatres and of genres represented there, a wealth of libretti and source material for them, vocal, orchestral and choral resources, to say nothing of the set designs, scenery and costumes. All this contributed to an artistic environment that had musicians from Italian- and German-speaking states beating a path to the doors of the Académie Royale de Musique, Opéra-Comique, ThéÃ¢tre Italien, ThéÃ¢tre Royal de l'Odéon and ThéÃ¢tre de la Renaissance. This book both tracks specific aspects of this culture, and examines stage music in Paris through the lens of one of its most important figures: Giacomo Meyerbeer. The early part of the book, which is organised chronologically, examines the institutional background to music drama in Paris in the nineteenth century, and introduces two of Meyerbeer's Italian operas that were of importance for his career in Paris. Meyerbeer's acculturation to Parisian theatrical mores is then examined, especially his moves from the Odéon and Opéra-Comique to the opera house where he eventually made his greatest impact - the Académie Royale de Musique; the shift from Opéra-Comique is then counterpointed by an examination of how an indigenous Parisian composer, Fromental Halévy, made exactly the same leap at more or less the same time. The book continues with the fates of other composers in Paris: Weber, Donizetti, Bellini and Wagner, but concludes with the final Parisian successes that Meyerbeer lived to see - his two opéras comiques.

The Musical as Drama

Author : Scott McMillin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400865409
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Musical as Drama written by Scott McMillin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the colorful traditions of vaudeville, burlesque, revue, and operetta, the musical has blossomed into America's most popular form of theater. Scott McMillin has developed a fresh aesthetic theory of this underrated art form, exploring the musical as a type of drama deserving the kind of critical and theoretical regard given to Chekhov or opera. Until recently, the musical has been considered either an "integrated" form of theater or an inferior sibling of opera. McMillin demonstrates that neither of these views is accurate, and that the musical holds true to the disjunctive and irreverent forms of popular entertainment from which it arose a century ago. Critics and composers have long held the musical to the standards applied to opera, asserting that each piece should work together to create a seamless drama. But McMillin argues that the musical is a different form of theater, requiring the suspension of the plot for song. The musical's success lies not in the smoothness of unity, but in the crackle of difference. While disparate, the dancing, music, dialogue, and songs combine to explore different aspects of the action and the characters. Discussing composers and writers such as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Kander and Ebb, Leonard Bernstein, and Jerome Kern, The Musical as Drama describes the continuity of this distinctively American dramatic genre, from the shows of the 1920s and 1930s to the musicals of today.

Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama

Author : Professor Sarah Hibberd
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409494764
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama written by Professor Sarah Hibberd and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genre of mélodrame à grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. Physical gesture, mise en scène and music were as important in communicating meaning and passion as spoken dialogue. The premise of this volume is the idea that the melodramatic aesthetic is central to our understanding of nineteenth-century music drama, broadly defined as spoken plays with music, operas and other hybrid genres that combine music with text and/or image. This relationship is examined closely, and its evolution in the twentieth century in selected operas, musicals and films is understood as an extension of this nineteenth-century aesthetic. The book therefore develops our understanding of opera in the context of melodrama's broader influence on musical culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book will appeal to those interested in film studies, drama, theatre and modern languages as well as music and opera.

Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert

Author : Joe Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783273652
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert written by Joe Davies and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the assumption that Franz Schubert (1797-1828), best known for the lyricism of his songs, symphonies and chamber music, lacked comparable talent for drama. It is commonly assumed that Franz Schubert (1797-1828), best known for the lyricism of his songs, symphonies, and chamber music, lacked comparable talent for drama. Challenging this view, Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert provides a timely re-evaluation of Schubert's operatic works, while demonstrating previously unsuspected locations of dramatic innovation in his vocal and instrumental music. The volume draws on a range of critical approaches and techniques, including semiotics, topic theory, literary criticism, narratology, and Schenkerian analysis, to situate Schubertian drama within its musical and cultural-historical context. In so doing, the study broadens the boundaries of what might be considered 'dramatic' within the composer's music and offers new perspectives for its analysis and interpretation. Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert will be of interest to musicologists, music theorists, composers, and performers, as well as scholars working in cultural studies, theatre, and aesthetics. JOE DAVIES is College Lecturer in Music at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. JAMES WILLIAM SOBASKIE is Associate Professor of Music at Mississippi State University. Contributors: Brian Black, Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Joe Davies, Xavier Hascher, Marjorie Hirsch, Anne Hyland, Christine Martin, Clive McClelland, James William Sobaskie, Lauri Suurpää, Laura Tunbridge, Susan Wollenberg, Susan Youens

Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools

Author : Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108490867
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools written by Amanda Eubanks Winkler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation.

Richard Wagner and the Style of the Music Drama

Author : Wilbur Fiske Stone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Richard Wagner and the Style of the Music Drama written by Wilbur Fiske Stone and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drama and Music: Creative Activities for Young Children

Author : Janet Rubin
Publisher : Green Dragon Books
ISBN 13 : 0893346802
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Drama and Music: Creative Activities for Young Children written by Janet Rubin and published by Green Dragon Books. This book was released on 1998-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reservoir of creativity inside you and your children is just waiting to be tapped! Drama and Music is a year round guide for incorporating constructive, educational creativity into your daily classroom routine. The easy-to-read format is an invaluable tool for developing brief or extended lessons exploring music and drama while reinforcing other core subjects like math, science, and language arts. Includes background information on teaching and coaching, as well as activities, fingerplays, stories, and pantomime. An extensive index covers music, poetry and literature. Make your class a dynamic, exciting place for integrated learning.

Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York

Author : Michael V. Pisani
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609382307
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York written by Michael V. Pisani and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring dozens of musical examples and images of the old theatres, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre charts the progress of music in the theatre form its earliest use in the eighteenth century to the elaborate stage productions of the very early twentieth century"--Back cover.

Music Drama at the Paris Odéon, 1824–1828

Author : Mark Everist
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520928903
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Music Drama at the Paris Odéon, 1824–1828 written by Mark Everist and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-12-04 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parisian theatrical, artistic, social, and political life comes alive in Mark Everist's impressive institutional history of the Paris Odéon, an opera house that flourished during the Bourbon Restoration. Everist traces the complete arc of the Odéon's short but highly successful life from ascent to triumph, decline, and closure. He outlines the role it played in expanding operatic repertoire and in changing the face of musical life in Paris. Everist reconstructs the political power structures that controlled the world of Parisian music drama, the internal administration of the theater, and its relationship with composers and librettists, and with the city of Paris itself. His rich depiction of French cultural life and the artistic contexts that allowed the Odéon to flourish highlights the benefit of close and innovative examination of society's institutions.

Wagner's Music-dramas Analysed with the Leading Motives

Author : Gustav Kobbé
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wagner's Music-dramas Analysed with the Leading Motives written by Gustav Kobbé and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rent

Author : Jonathan Larson
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557837370
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Rent written by Jonathan Larson and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Libretto Library). Finally, an authorized libretto to this modern day classic! Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as four Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score for Jonathan Larson. The story of Mark, Roger, Maureen, Tom Collins, Angel, Mimi, JoAnne, and their friends on the Lower East Side of New York City will live on, along with the affirmation that there is "no day but today." Includes 16 color photographs of productions of Rent from around the world, plus an introduction ("Rent Is Real") by Victoria Leacock Hoffman.

Tonality as Drama

Author : Edward David Latham
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574412493
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Tonality as Drama written by Edward David Latham and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the fields of dramaturgy, music theory, and historical musicology, this book answers a question about twentieth-century music: Why does tonality persist in opera, even after it has been abandoned in other genres?

Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004549609
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers an in-depth study of music’s narrative functions in radio drama, whether original or adapted, alongside speech and sound. It features a range of historical perspectives as well as case studies from Australia, Europe and North America, highlighting broadcasting institutions such as the BBC, RAI, ABC, WDR and SWR, from early radio to the medium’s postwar golden age and contemporary productions. Not limited to classical or popular music, the chapters also pay attention to electronic varieties and musical uses of language, in addition to intermedial exchanges with other art forms such as theatre, opera and film. In doing so, the present volume sits at the crossroads of various disciplines: musicology, narratology, history, literary, media, sound and radio studies.

Verdi's Theater

Author : Gilles de Van
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226143705
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Verdi's Theater written by Gilles de Van and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But in the musical drama reality begins to blur, the musical forms lose their excessively neat patterns, and doubt and ambiguity undermine characters and situations, reflecting the crisis of character typical of modernity. Indeed, much of the interest and originality of Verdi's operas lie in his adherence to both these contradictory systems, allowing the composer/dramatist to be simultaneously classical and modern, traditionalist and innovator.

Show Time!

Author : Lisa Bany-Winters
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1556523610
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Show Time! written by Lisa Bany-Winters and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the concepts of music, dance, and acting, suggesting how to create a musical production through games and role-playing and describing all aspects of a show from auditions to curtain call.