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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera

Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521780094
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera written by Mervyn Cooke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Opera of the Twentieth Century

Author : William Schoell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476605564
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Opera of the Twentieth Century written by William Schoell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1500s in Florence, aristocrats of the Renaissance renovated classical Greek dramas into dramatic musicals and gave birth to the first operas. After centuries of transformation, the opera is still appreciated as a historically dynamic paradigm of the fine arts. Composers of the twentieth century have worked hard to fashion a voice distinct from the romantic composers of the nineteenth century and the traditions that preceded them, and this volume explores the extent of their success. Beginning with a thorough introduction to the history of operatic forms and transformation, this book presents a comprehensive discussion of twentieth century opera. Giving ear to many composers and many styles--romantic and modern and assorted variations--the discussion includes such globally renowned composers as Strauss, Puccini, Prokofiev and Mascagni, as well as the esoteric works of less famous composers. Spanning as it does from Puccini's Tosca and Charpentier's Louise to Heggie's Dead Man Walking and Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles, twentieth century operatic form has something for every taste. The discussion is therefore structured chronologically and directed at exploring this complex diversity and ingenuity of twentieth-century styles. Examples from across the globe and firsthand commentary from contemporary operatic professionals complement the discussion. Concluding chapters comment upon the operatic presence in the twenty-first century and the future of operatic forms.

Twentieth Century Opera

Author : George Whitney Martin
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879102753
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Opera written by George Whitney Martin and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Limelight). Martin provides a guide to opera that is sweeping in its scope, thorough in its detail, and authoritative in its commentary. He recalls a century of achievement in an art form that today enjoys unprecedented popularity and that has been generously enriched by challenging works in many cases yet to be fully recognized of the modern era.

20th century opera at home & abroad. 1900 through season 1937-1938

Author : May Silva Teasdale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book 20th century opera at home & abroad. 1900 through season 1937-1938 written by May Silva Teasdale and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Early 20th Century Opera Singers

Author : Nicholas E. Limansky
Publisher : YBK Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781936411436
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Early 20th Century Opera Singers written by Nicholas E. Limansky and published by YBK Publishers. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical recordings by opera singers have proven since 1900 to offer much reward to the singer, student, listener, and collector alike. In the first book of this kind to appear in decades, Nicholas Limansky explains why critical listening is important and describes the merits of analyzing and comparing the recordings of previous generations of singers with those of the present. He also recounts how markedly record collecting has changed through the decades-especially in large cities like New York-mainly due to technological advance. He not only treats collecting 78 rpm disks, but LPs and CDs as well. Expired copyright now enables many of these early recordings to easily be acquired and collected, enabling the broad-scale comparison of style, technique, and vocal quality among the famous performers of earlier eras. The author points out what to look for among these differences in style, technique, and ability-both good and bad. (On occasion, the most famous are not the best ) With emphasis on today's student and collector, Limansky provides information about where, how, and on what labels given recordings can be found. He discusses printed resources that offer the interested even more information. Beginners and veterans alike will find much of interest in this far-ranging book. Nicholas Limansky studied voice at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and has a performance degree from the University of West Virginia. He has sung with major professional choral groups in New York City that include The Bach Aria Group, Musica Sacra, New York Choral Artists (NY Philharmonic), Opera Orchestra of New York, The Netherlands Ballet, and Alvin Ailey (Revelations, Rainbow). He has written performance reviews for the Italian publication, "Rassegna Melodrammatic," and reviewed new vocal releases of historical singers for "Opera News, The Record Collector, Classical Singer, " and "Opera Quarterly." He lectures at the New York Vocal Record Collectors Society and is a member of its board of directors.

Handbook of 20th century opera

Author : May S. Teasdale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of 20th century opera written by May S. Teasdale and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Companion to Twentieth-century Opera

Author : George Martin
Publisher : John Murray Pubs Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780719546853
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book The Companion to Twentieth-century Opera written by George Martin and published by John Murray Pubs Limited. This book was released on 1989 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes seven background essays, synopses of eighty-four frequently performed operas, and statistics on the repertoires of opera companies around the world

Misdirection

Author : Alois Maria Nagler
Publisher : [Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Misdirection written by Alois Maria Nagler and published by [Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Companion to Twentieth Century Opera

Author : George Martin
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780719547676
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The Companion to Twentieth Century Opera written by George Martin and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rest Is Noise

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429932880
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Rest Is Noise written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

20th Century Opera at Home & Abroad

Author : May Silva Teasdale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book 20th Century Opera at Home & Abroad written by May Silva Teasdale and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Handbook of 20th Century Opera

Author : May Silvia Teasdale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of 20th Century Opera written by May Silvia Teasdale and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera

Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139826344
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Women Playing Men

Author : Jin Jiang
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295988444
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Women Playing Men written by Jin Jiang and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern forces converge and gender roles are challenged in this volume that explores the influence of Yue opera - a subgenre of Chinese opera that transformed all-male opera into an all-female art forms, with women cross-dressing as male characters.

A History of Opera

Author : Carolyn Abbate
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393089533
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book A History of Opera written by Carolyn Abbate and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.”—Times Literary Supplement Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their “effervescent, witty” (Die Welt, Germany) retelling of the history of opera, examining its development, the musical and dramatic means by which it communicates, and its role in society. Now with an expanded examination of opera as an institution in the twenty-first century, this “lucid and sweeping” (Boston Globe) narrative explores the tensions that have sustained opera over four hundred years: between words and music, character and singer, inattention and absorption. Abbate and Parker argue that, though the genre’s most popular and enduring works were almost all written in a distant European past, opera continues to change the viewer— physically, emotionally, intellectually—with its enduring power.

Modernism and Opera

Author : Richard Begam
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421420627
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Modernism and Opera written by Richard Begam and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z

Opera at the Bandstand

Author : George W. Martin
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810888548
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Opera at the Bandstand written by George W. Martin and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Opera at the Bandstand: Then and Now, George W. Martin surveys the role of concert bands during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in making contemporary opera popular. He also chronicles how in part they lost their audience in the second half of the twentieth century by abandoning operatic repertory. Martin begins with the Dodworth bands in New York City from the 1850s and moves to the American tour of French conductor and composer Louis Antoine Jullien, bandmaster Patrick S. Gilmore’s jubilee festivals, the era of John Philip Sousa from 1892 to 1932, performances of the Goldman Band of New York City from 1920 to 2005, and finally the wind ensembles sparked by Frederick Fennell. He illustrates the degree to which operatic material comprised these bands’ overall repertory and provides detailed programs in the appendixes. Opera at the Bandstand describes how the technological advancements sweeping the country, such as radio, automobiles, recordings, television, and air conditioning, along with changes in demographics, affected the country’s musical life. It will appeal to bandmasters and their players, as well as those with an interest in American history, music, popular culture, and opera.