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Author : Robert Donington
Publisher : Gale Cengage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Opera written by Robert Donington and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1981 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward J. Dent
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521213370
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Romantic Opera written by Edward J. Dent and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1976-11-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dent's lectures here show that romantic opera had its origins not in Germany but in the music-dramas of revolutionary France.
Author : Carolyn Abbate
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393089533
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
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 576 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.
Author : Irene Morra
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317005856
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain written by Irene Morra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to examine in depth the contributions of major British authors such as W. H. Auden and E. M. Forster, as critics and librettists, to the rise of British opera in the twentieth century. The perceived literary values of British authors, as much as the musical innovations of British composers, informed the aesthetic development of British opera. Indeed, British opera emerged as a simultaneously literary and musical project. Too often, operatic adaptations are compared superficially to their original sources. This is a particular problem for British opera, which has become increasingly defined artistically by the literary sophistication of its narrative sources. The resulting collaborations between literary figures and composers have crucial implications for the development of both opera and literature. Twentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain reveals the importance of this literary involvement in operatic adaptation to literature and literary studies, to music and musicology, and to cultural and theoretical studies.
Author : George Jellinek
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879102845
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book History Through the Opera Glass written by George Jellinek and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Limelight). This first-of-its-kind, highly entertaining, and carefully researched account reveals how nearly 200 operas by leading composers and librettists have portrayed the major events and personalities of more than 2000 years of history. In a continuous and absorbing narrative, the book sweeps from Roman times to 1820, with a cast of characters that includes Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Attila, Charlemagne, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Napoleon and hundreds more. All are seen as the figures historians generally perceive them to have been and as their on-stage counterparts, created and re-imagined by some of opera's greatest artists.
Author : Wing Chung Ng
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097092
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Cantonese Opera written by Wing Chung Ng and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defined by its distinct performance style, stage practices, and regional and dialect based identities, Cantonese opera originated as a traditional art form performed by itinerant companies in temple courtyards and rural market fairs. In the early 1900s, however, Cantonese opera began to capture mass audiences in the commercial theaters of Hong Kong and Guangzhou--a transformation that changed it forever. Wing Chung Ng charts Cantonese opera's confrontations with state power, nationalist discourses, and its challenge to the ascendancy of Peking opera as the country's preeminent "national theatre." Mining vivid oral histories and heretofore untapped archival sources, Ng relates how Cantonese opera evolved from a fundamentally rural tradition into urbanized entertainment distinguished by a reliance on capitalization and celebrity performers. He also expands his analysis to the transnational level, showing how waves of Chinese emigration to Southeast Asia and North America further re-shaped Cantonese opera into a vibrant part of the ethnic Chinese social life and cultural landscape in the many corners of a sprawling diaspora.
Author : Ellen Rosand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520254260
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice written by Ellen Rosand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi
Author : Arthur Elson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Opera written by Arthur Elson and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Elson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Critical History of Opera written by Arthur Elson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192854452
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (544 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera written by Roger Parker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical survey of opera, from its beginnings in Florence 400 years ago, up to opera in the 1990s.
Author : Donald J. Grout
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231507720
Total Pages : 1047 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Opera written by Donald J. Grout and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-18 with total page 1047 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have. The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day. A Short History of Opera examines not only the standard performance repertoire, but also works considered important for the genre's development. Its expanded scope investigates opera from Eastern European countries and Finland. The section on twentieth-century opera has been reorganized around national operatic traditions including a chapter devoted solely to opera in the United States, which incorporates material on the American musical and ties between classical opera and popular musical theater. A separate section on Chinese opera is also included. With an extensive multilanguage bibliography, more than one hundred musical examples, and stage illustrations, this authoritative one-volume survey will be invaluable to students and serious opera buffs. New fans will also find it highly accessible and informative. Extremely thorough in its coverage, A Short History of Opera is now more than ever the book to turn to for anyone who wants to know about the history of this art form.
Author : Paul A. Robinson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801494284
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (942 download)
Download or read book Opera & Ideas written by Paul A. Robinson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera and Ideas is a study of the connections between music and intellectual history. Through lucid analysis of six operas and two song cycles, Paul Robinson shows how operas give musical and dramatic expression to ideas about the self, society, and history.
Author : Donald Jay Grout
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231119585
Total Pages : 1049 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Opera written by Donald Jay Grout and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1049 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day."--Jacket.
Author : Arthur Elson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Critical History of Opera written by Arthur Elson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Goddard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Development of Opera ... written by Joseph Goddard and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Bergner
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316300659
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Sing for Your Life written by Daniel Bergner and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller about a young black man's journey from violence and despair to the threshold of stardom: "A beautiful tribute to the power of good teachers" (Terry Gross, Fresh Air). "One of the most inspiring stories I've come across in a long time."-Pamela Paul, New York Times Book Review Ryan Speedo Green had a tough upbringing in southeastern Virginia: his family lived in a trailer park and later a bullet-riddled house across the street from drug dealers. His father was absent; his mother was volatile and abusive. At the age of twelve, Ryan was sent to Virginia's juvenile facility of last resort. He was placed in solitary confinement. He was uncontrollable, uncontainable, with little hope for the future. In 2011, at the age of twenty-four, Ryan won a nationwide competition hosted by New York's Metropolitan Opera, beating out 1,200 other talented singers. Today, he is a rising star performing major roles at the Met and Europe's most prestigious opera houses. Sing for Your Life chronicles Ryan's suspenseful, racially charged and artistically intricate journey from solitary confinement to stardom. Daniel Bergner takes readers on Ryan's path toward redemption, introducing us to a cast of memorable characters -- including the two teachers from his childhood who redirect his rage into music, and his long-lost father who finally reappears to hear Ryan sing. Bergner illuminates all that it takes -- technically, creatively -- to find and foster the beauty of the human voice. And Sing for Your Life sheds unique light on the enduring and complex realities of race in America.
Author : Arthur Elson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022470866
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book A Critical History of Opera written by Arthur Elson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive history of opera covers its development from its origins in the baroque period to the 20th century, with detailed examinations of individual composers, schools, and stylistic trends. With music criticism, cultural commentary, and historical context, this book is a must-read for opera lovers and historians alike. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
