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Book Synopsis A comparison between the French and Italian Musick and Operas. Translated from the French [from F. Raguenet's “Parallèle des Italiens et des François,” etc.] with some remarks. To which is added a critical discourse upon Operas in England, etc by :
Download or read book A comparison between the French and Italian Musick and Operas. Translated from the French [from F. Raguenet's “Parallèle des Italiens et des François,” etc.] with some remarks. To which is added a critical discourse upon Operas in England, etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1709 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Comparison Between the French and Italian Musick And Opera's by : François Raguenet
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Book Synopsis Opera in Theory and Practice, Image and Myth by : Lorenzo Bianconi
Download or read book Opera in Theory and Practice, Image and Myth written by Lorenzo Bianconi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Italian Opera marks the first time a team of scholars has worked together to investigate the entire Italian operatic tradition, rather than limiting its focus to major composers and their masterworks. Including both musicologists and historians of other arts, the contributors approach opera not only as a distinctive musical genre but also as a form of extravagant theater and a complex social phenomenon. This sixth volume in the series centers on the sociological and critical aspects of opera in Italy, considering the art in the context of an Italian literary and cultural canon rarely revealed in English and American studies. In its six chapters, contributors survey critics' changing attitudes toward opera over several centuries, trace the evolution of formal conventions among librettists, explore the historical relationships between opera and Italian literature, and examine opera's place in Italian popular and national culture. In perhaps the volume's most striking contribution, German scholar Carl Dahlouse offers his most important statement on the dramaturgy of opera.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera by :
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Short History of Opera by : Donald J. Grout
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.
Book Synopsis The Dictionary of National Biography by : Leslie Stephen
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi by : Blair Hoxby
Download or read book Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi written by Blair Hoxby and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the nineteenth century, some of the most influential historians have portrayed opera and tragedy as wholly distinct cultural phenomena. These historians have denied a meaningful connection between the tragedy of the ancients and the efforts of early modern composers to arrive at styles that were intensely dramatic. Drawing on a series of case studies, Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi traces the productive, if at times rivalrous, relationship between opera and tragedy from the institution of French regular tragedy under Richelieu in the 1630s to the reform of opera championed by Calzabigi and Gluck in the late eighteenth century. Blair Hoxby and his fellow contributors shed light on “neighbouring forms” of theatre, including pastoral drama, tragédie en machines, tragédie en musique, and Goldoni’s dramma giocoso. Their analysis includes famous masterpieces by Corneille, Voltaire, Metastasio, Goldoni, Calzabigi, Handel, and Gluck, as well as lesser-known artists such as Luisa Bergalli, the first female librettist to write for the public theatre in Italy. Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi delves into a series of quarrels and debates in order to illuminate the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theatre.
Book Synopsis Opera and Politics in Queen Anne's Britain, 1705-1714 by : Thomas McGeary
Download or read book Opera and Politics in Queen Anne's Britain, 1705-1714 written by Thomas McGeary and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the political meanings that Italian opera - its composers, agents and institutions - had for audiences in eighteenth-century Britain.
Book Synopsis British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books by :
Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dictionary of National Biography by : Leslie Stephen
Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pasticcio opera in Britain by : Peter Morgan Barnes
Download or read book Pasticcio opera in Britain written by Peter Morgan Barnes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera. This radical way of creating opera formed a counterweight, even a relief, to the trenchant masculinity of literate culture in the seventeenth century. It undermined the narrowing of nationalism in the eighteenth century, and was an act of gross sacrilege against the cult of Romantic genius in the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, it found itself on the wrong side of copyright law. However, in the twenty-first century it is enjoying a tentative revival. This book redefines pasticcio as a method rather than a genre of opera and aligns it with other art forms which also created their works from pre-existing parts, including sculpture. A pasticcio opera is created from pre-existing music and text, thus flying in face of insistence on originality and creation by a solo genius.
Download or read book Seeing Opera Anew written by Joseph Cone and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What people ultimately want from opera, audience research suggests, is to be absorbed in a story that engages their feelings, even moves them deeply, and that may lead them to insights about life and, perhaps, themselves. How and why can this combination of music and drama do that? What causes people to be moved by opera? How is it that people may become more informed about living and their own lives? Seeing Opera Anew addresses these fundamental questions. Most approaches to opera present information solely from the humanities, providing musical, literary, and historical interpretations, but this book offers a “stereo” perspective, adding insights from the sciences closely related to human life, including evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience. It can be hoped that academic specialists less familiar with the science will find points of interest in this book’s novel approach, and that open-minded students and inquisitive opera-goers will be stimulated by its “cultural and biological perspective.”
Download or read book Opera written by Robert Cannon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for music students and opera-goers, this book investigates what opera is, how it works and how it has developed.
Download or read book Dwight's Journal of Music written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Made in Italy written by Franco Fabbri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made in Italy serves as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Italian popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Italian music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Italy and provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Italian popular music. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music, followed by essays organized into thematic sections: Themes; Singer-Songwriters; and Stories.
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers, English and Foreign by : Sir George Grove
Download or read book A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers, English and Foreign written by Sir George Grove and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis French Baroque Opera: A Reader by : Caroline Wood
Download or read book French Baroque Opera: A Reader written by Caroline Wood and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the outset, French opera generated an enormous diversity of literature, familiarity with which greatly enhances our understanding of this unique art form. Yet relatively little of that literature is available in English, despite an upsurge of interest in the Lully-Rameau period during the past two decades. This book presents a wide-ranging and informative picture of the organization and evolution of French Baroque opera, its aims and aspirations, its strengths and weaknesses. Drawing on official documents, theoretical writings, letters, diaries, dictionary entries, contemporary reviews and commentaries, it provides an often entertaining insight into Lully’s once-proud Royal Academy of Music and the colourful characters who surrounded it. The translated passages are set in context, and readers are directed to further scholarly and critical writings in English. Readers will find this new, updated edition easier to use with its revised and expanded translations, supplementary explanatory content and new illustrations.