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Author : Edward Malcolm Batley
Publisher : London : Dobson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A Preface to The Magic Flute written by Edward Malcolm Batley and published by London : Dobson. This book was released on 1969 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Freyhan
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810869675
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Authentic Magic Flute Libretto written by Michael Freyhan and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's death, his widow Constanze sent a manuscript copy of one of his most beloved operas, Die Zauberflste, to the court of the Elector of Cologne. It was eventually published by Nicolaus Simrock in 1814 as the first full-score edition. However, the question still remains as to why this early copy in her possession diverges from Mozart's autograph in so many libretto details. The Authentic Magic Flute Libretto: Mozart's Autograph or the First Full-Score Edition? investigates the origin and claim to authenticity of the first full-score edition of Die Zauberflste, drawing attention to the close bond between words and music. Michael Freyhan brings the subtlety of the first edition word setting to the attention of scholars, musicians, and opera-lovers, setting out the evidence for its authenticity and detailing the quest, pursued in 15 countries, for the earliest possible historical sources. Freyhan examines the differences between the first edition and the autograph, discussing the quality of the word-setting_supported by 32 musical examples_and evaluating the relationship of the two texts in terms of language and literature. The following chapters discuss the early history of the autograph, focusing on four alleged owners, its market value, and the misleading catalogue numbering systems seen on the first page. Details of the performance and publication history of the first edition text are followed by a new perspective on the disputed authorship of the libretto, in light of the possible existence of two authentic texts. A concluding chapter discusses Mozart's sketches and working methods, while an appendix traces the character and career of Karl Ludwig Giesecke, one of the writers who claimed ownership of the opera's libretto. The book also includes several photos and the complete first edition libretto, in German and with literal English translation, providing a side-by-side text comparison with the autograph text.
Author : Tjeu van den Berk
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004496548
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Magic Flute written by Tjeu van den Berk and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume demonstrates for the first time that Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte is an enactment of the alchemical opus magnum, in the form of a chemical wedding. Towards the end of the 18th century, alchemy was still a prominent mystical current within the Order of Freemasons of which Mozart and his librettists were members. The central part focuses on the opera's alchemical structure, whereas the historical and mythological backgrounds are also dealt with extensively. The book comes with 3 CD's offering a rendition of the integral opera, in contrast to the common practice of leaving out major parts of the libretto. The Magic Flute is a fascinating journey of discovery, an initiation into Initiation. With complete original libretto and over 100 pictures.
Author : Yoshitaka Amano
Publisher : Radical Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780980233506
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Mateki written by Yoshitaka Amano and published by Radical Pub. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Mozart's opera The magic flute. Tells the tragic story of a young prince battling evil forces to rescue his love from the lord of darkness.
Author : Edward M. Batley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (251 download)
Download or read book A preface to The magic Flute written by Edward M. Batley and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jessica Waldoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108426891
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute written by Jessica Waldoff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, up-to-date, resource providing an essential framework for understanding Mozart's most-performed opera and its extraordinary afterlife.
Author : Michael Steen
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848315422
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book Mozart's The Magic Flute written by Michael Steen and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even Salieri, the notorious villain of Peter Shaffer's drama Amadeus, admired Mozart's comic opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), which was premièred in Vienna a few weeks before Mozart's death in December 1791. Though sometimes enjoyed as a children's opera, this is not a pantomime: rooted in Freemasonry, the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason, it promotes the ideals of progress, virtue, self-betterment, truth and justice. Tamino, an Egyptian Prince, has a magic flute to take him and his beloved Pamina through trials of constancy and endurance, before they can attain ultimate bliss. Critics have long been confounded as to how Mozart could present such a light-hearted yet deep masterpiece, with such wonderful music, while being in deep financial trouble. There is great stylistic diversity. The sensationally difficult part of the Queen of the Night comes from the Italian opera tradition, while the comical bird catcher Papageno (originally performed by the librettist Schikaneder) sings in the popular style of the Viennese suburbs. Such is the beauty of the music that Bernard Shaw thought that the O Isis and Osiris, of Sarastro, the High Priest, was fit to emerge from the mouth of a god. Written by Michael Steen, author of the acclaimed The Lives and Times of the Great Composers, 'Short Guides to Great Operas' are concise, entertaining and easy to read. They are packed with useful information and informed opinion, helping to make you a truly knowledgeable opera-goer, and so maximising your enjoyment of a great musical experience. Other 'Short Guides to Great Operas' that you may enjoy include Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and Così fan tutte.
Author : Elisabeth Henry
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809317691
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Orpheus with His Lute written by Elisabeth Henry and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of Orpheus has exerted a powerful influence on the work of poets and artists through the ages--from the poetry of Virgil and Ovid and the Ovidian romances of the Middle Ages to the new mythologies of Blake and Rilke. Orpheus was believed to have aroused responses from inanimate nature as well as from living creatures, bringing about a peaceful order and even--in some cases-- restoring the dead to life. This challenging new study analyses the changing images of Orpheus in the poetry, sculpture and vase-painting of the ancient world. The author shows how later versions diverge from the early story of the divinely inspired poet-musician and reflect conflicting ideas about the nature of poetic creativity, its sources and powers. Orpheus with His Lute is essential reading for all those interested in literature and the psychology of aesthetic experience. It will also be of value to students of philosophy and the history of religion.
Author : Barbara R. Barry
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781576470107
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Philosopher's Stone written by Barbara R. Barry and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philosopher's Stone is a collection of case studies in compositional process; not so much about how the music was arrived at through its sketch stages, but more are construction of issues of form as the defining features of a genre, and structure as the individual realization in a particular work. Great musical movements and works are seen as highly creative solutions to problem-solving. The contexts of the works differ considerably. Some were written against the background of a specific precedent or model, as with Mozart's Haydn quartets via Haydn's Op. 33 set. In other cases, as with Beethoven's middle period style, the composer reconsiders a comprehensive range of implications about style and construction, of how, after earlier successes now outworn, to make a new and significant contribution to the genre without duplicating earlier solutions. The essays are grouped into three sections: on Beethoven studies, Mozart in retrospect, and nineteenth-century music. All the movements and works in these chapters pose in their different ways these issues of structural reinterpretation and re-formation, where the reworking of the form leads to a distinctive and higher level transformation
Author : Syndy M. Conger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801856273
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Studies in Eighteenth-century Culture written by Syndy M. Conger and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 16 essays offers an insight into the texts and contexts of 18th-century culture in America, Britain and Europe. Topics covered include: pastoralism; Augustanism; the aesthetic; hysteria; female alienation; German Enlightenment; knowledge; charity; and Gothicism.
Author : Peter Branscombe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521319164
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Zauberflote written by Peter Branscombe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-05-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few operas have had more written about them than The Magic Flute, yet few are as often exposed to misguided comment - or to idiosyncratic productions. This book sets out to provide a straightforward account of Mozart's last opera, exposing the half-truths and legends that have proliferated since its first production in 1791. In the first chapter a hitherto unsuspected source for the opening scene is presented and Branscombe reveals the complex relationship between the stories, essays and stage-works on which the plot is based. The second chapter studies the intellectual background, with special attention to Freemasonry. A detailed synopsis follows, then the history of the composition, based on documentary evidence and, in the case of the autograph score, the paper-types used. Chapter 5 examines the identity of the librettist and the qualities of his work, and chapter 6 is a detailed study (by Erik Smith) of Mozart's music and more generally of his late style. Chapter 7 covers the first performance, the cast, early reception, and then the rapid growth in the opera's fame; an outline history of productions concludes the chapter. Anthony Besch discusses the nature of the challenge to the director presented by Die Zauberflöte and suggests how the problems can be overcome. The book contains illustrations, a synopsis, bibliography and discography and will be of interest to music students, scholars and opera-goers.
Author : Adriana Şerban
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027260788
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Opera in Translation written by Adriana Şerban and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers aspects of opera translation within the Western world and in Asia, as well as some of opera’s many travels between continents, countries, languages and cultures—and also between genres and media. The concept of ‘adaptation’ is a thread running through the sixteen contributions, which encompass a variety of composers, operas, periods and national traditions. Sung translation, libretto translation, surtitling, subtitling are discussed from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Exploration of aspects such as the relationship between language and music, multimodality, intertextuality, cultural and linguistic transfer, multilingualism, humour, identity and stereotype, political ideology, the translator’s voice and the role of the audience is driven by a shared motivation: a love of opera and of the beauty it has never ceased to provide through the centuries, and admiration for the people who write, compose, perform, direct, translate, or otherwise contribute to making the joy of opera a part of our lives.
Author : Darren Walter Leander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (57 download)
Download or read book A Recent Reception History of Mozart and Schikaneder's Die Zauberflöte written by Darren Walter Leander and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Arrandale
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783272058
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Edward J. Dent written by Karen Arrandale and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first full biography of Edward J. Dent (1876-1957) covers not only his pioneering music scholarship and cultural activities but also his personal crusades on behalf of music and opera, gays, refugees, and the culturally destitute. Drawn from a wide variety of unpublished sources, from behind Dent?s carefully constructed public 0persona of a cosmopolitan gentleman scholar the picture emerges of a more complex and fascinating human being. His seminal works remain fresh and vital and his writing hugely entertaining, while his ideas on the importance of the arts in everyday life are as relevant as ever.
Author : SimonP. Keefe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351557920
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Mozart written by SimonP. Keefe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart reflects scholarly advances made over the last thirty years. The studies are broad and focused, demonstrating a large number of viewpoints, methodologies and orientations and the material spans a wide range of subject areas, including biography, vocal music, instrumental music and performance. Written by leading researchers from Europe and North America, these previously published articles and book chapters are representative of both the most frequently discussed and debated issues in Mozart studies and the challenging, exciting nature of Mozart scholarship in general. The volume is essential reading for researchers, students and scholars of Mozart's music.
Author : P F M Fontaine
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004674012
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Dualism in the Palestinian-Syrian Region During the First Century A.D. Until Ca.140 written by P F M Fontaine and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guy A. Marco
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135578001
Total Pages : 1037 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Opera written by Guy A. Marco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 1037 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.
