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Author : Mina Kirstein Curtiss
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bizet and His World written by Mina Kirstein Curtiss and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1977 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan McClary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521398978
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (989 download)
Download or read book Carmen written by Susan McClary and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bizet's Carmen is probably the best known opera of the standard repertoire, yet its very familiarity often prevents us from approaching it with the seriousness it deserves. This handbook explores the opera in a number of contexts, bringing to the surface the controversies over gender, race, class and musical propriety that greeted its premiere and that have been rekindled by the recent spate of film versions. Beginning with a study of the Mérimée story by Peter Robinson and an examination of the social tensions in nineteenth-century France that inform both that story and the opera, the book traces the latter through its genesis and reception. The central core of the book presents a close reading of the opera that offers new interpretive possibilities. The handbook concludes with discussions of four films based on the opera: Carmen Jones and the versions of Carmen by Carlos Saura, Peter Brook, and Francesco Rosi. The volume contains a bibliography, music examples, and a synopsis.
Author : Mina Stein Kirstein Curtiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Bizet and His World written by Mina Stein Kirstein Curtiss and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Clive
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461722802
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Brahms and His World written by Peter Clive and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-10-02 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an influential and well-connected composer, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) had encountered, befriended, and collaborated with hundreds of people over his significant career. In Brahms and His World: A Biographical Dictionary, author Peter Clive provides extensive and up-to-date information on the composer's personal and professional association with some 430 persons. These persons include relatives, friends, acquaintances, and physicians; fellow musicians and composers whom Brahms particularly admired and in the editions of whose works he was involved; conductors, instrumentalists, and singers who took part in notable or first performances of his works; poets whose texts he set to music; publishers and artists; and even the rulers of certain German states with whom he had significant contact. Offering information not usually available in Brahms biographies, this volume combines findings from both primary and secondary sources, giving insights into Brahms' character, his life, and his career, and shedding light on the educated middle and upper class culture of the nineteenth century. A comprehensive chronology of Brahms' life, a bibliography, and two indexes round out this important reference guide.
Author : D. C. Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258866150
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (661 download)
Download or read book Georges Bizet written by D. C. Parker and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1926 edition.
Author : D. C. Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781436677561
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (775 download)
Download or read book Georges Bizet: His Life and Works written by D. C. Parker and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Hugh Macdonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199384738
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Bizet written by Hugh Macdonald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today Georges Bizet is most immediately recognized as the composer of the acclaimed opera Carmen. One of the most frequently performed operas for over a century, Carmen explores concepts such as the femme fatale and murderous jealousy with vivacity, color, and a wealth of melody. Yet it is only one act in Bizet's story. In Bizet, renowned musicologist Hugh Macdonald goes beyond the composer's most famous opera to take an in-depth look at his entire life and oeuvre. In so doing, Macdonald identifies a number of previously unknown pieces by Bizet, assembling the first comprehensive catalogue of the composer's work. Incorporating these little-known pieces with a thorough reading of primary sources, Macdonald considers the latest in Bizet scholarship to create a complete biography of the composer. Revealing the true extent of Bizet's work as arranger and transcriber, Macdonald sheds light on the composer's complex relationships with his contemporaries, and traces the strange misrepresentation of Bizet's work by French publishers and opera houses in the 1880s, when Carmen rose to worldwide popularity ten years after the composer's early death. The first biography of Bizet in the Master Musicians series in nearly four decades, Bizet will be essential reading for students and scholars of nineteenth-century opera, as well as for Carmen devotees and opera fans.
Author : Richard Langham Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108481612
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Carmen Abroad written by Richard Langham Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transnational history of the performance, reception, translation, adaptation and appropriation of Bizet's Carmen from 1875 to 1945. This volume explores how Bizet's opera swiftly travelled the globe, and how the story, the music, the staging and the singers appealed to audiences in diverse contexts.
Author : Christoph Schwandt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780810886186
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Georges Bizet written by Christoph Schwandt and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the vibrant production of Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2010, interest has grown in the work's French composer, Georges Bizet. First published in 1991, Christoph Schwandt's biography of Georges Bizet is now widely recognized as the definitive work on the great composer. Drawing on recent research and revised and augmented for the 2011 edition, translated here into English by Cynthia Klohr, Schwandt cleans away the romantic misconceptions that have cluttered earlier assessments of Bizet's life and works.
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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Georges Bizet written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781579125080
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Carmen written by and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Pub. This book was released on 2005 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the complete text of the libretto with annotations in both English and Italian and a critical historical commentary. The text also includes the background of the composer, biographies of the principal singers and conductor. The two accompanying CDs contain the complete opera sung in Italian.
Author : Dan H. Marek
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442235896
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Alto written by Dan H. Marek and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone is familiar with the words diva or prima donna, which have come to mean a (usually) outrageous operatic soprano, but there was a time when the star of the show was more often a contralto, or a soprano singing in today's mezzo-soprano range. This performer was referred to as an alto. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the male and female leading roles were likely to be sung by emasculated males, the alto castrati, although there were many great female altos during this period as well. The music for these fantastic artists, written by such composers as Porpora, Vinci, Hasse, and even Handel, has been largely forgotten. At the beginning of the 19th century, as the castrati died out, their roles were often assumed by female altos referred to as musici. New repertoire continued to be written for them by Rossini and others, but gradually, this musical tradition and technique was lost. Now, however, because of the talent and industry of such gifted artists as Marilyn Horne, Cecilia Bartoli, and Joyce DiDonato, and the sudden ease with which the performance of these forgotten works can be obtained, there is a resurgence of interest in the performance and preservation of this lost art. Alto: The Voice of Bel Canto examines the careers of nearly 320 great alto singers, including the great castrati, from the dawn of opera in 1597 to the present. The music of the composers who wrote for the alto voice is discussed along with musical examples and suggestions for listening. The exploration of the greatest altos’ careers and techniques offers inspiration for aspiring young singers as well as absorbing reading for the music lover who wants to know more about the fascinating world of opera.
Author : Hugo Dixon Marple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The World of Music written by Hugo Dixon Marple and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Stephens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474251617
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Carmen Disruption written by Simon Stephens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'll gather my breath. I'll walk out of my room. I'll know exactly where I'm going to go. The voice in my head tells me exactly where to go. In the opulent grandeur of a European city, a renowned singer abandons the opera house for the truth of the streets. A gorgeous prostitute. A tough-talking taxi driver. A global trader. A teenage dreamer. Everyone's looking for something. Simon Stephens's strange and beautiful play re-imagines Bizet's opera Carmen and the possibility of love in a fractured urban world. Carmen Disruption received its world premiere at the Deutsche Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, in March 2014 and its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre on 10 April 2015.
Author : Robert D. Schick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135586187
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Classical Music Criticism written by Robert D. Schick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first new survey of the field in more than 60 years, this study concentrates on the basics of music criticism. Because it focuses on core issues and proven principles, the book is likely to become the standard work on the subject. It is written for the audience that reads music criticism in newspapers and popular journals: professional and amateur musicians, scholars, teachers, researchers, librarians, students, music lovers, journalists, and critics. The topics are covered in depth and observations are thoroughly documented, yet the material is enjoyable to read because the writing is easy to understand and special terminology is held to an absolute minimum. The commentary addresses the function of music criticism, the qualifications and training of a critic, the relationship between music criticism and other aspects of journalism, and the principles behind value judgments. Three chapters are devoted to the concert and opera review, one to reviewing recordings, another to radio and television criticism, and one to reviewing ethnic music. Thirty-eight reviews are quoted and analyzed, and 13 are presented in their entirety, along with critical commentary. Index. Appendix. Bibliography
Author : Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 081957354X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Carmen, a Gypsy Geography written by Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of Carmen has emerged as a cipher for the unfettered female artist. Dance historian and performance theorist Ninotchka Bennahum shows us Carmen as embodied historical archive, a figure through which we come to understand the promises and dangers of nomadic, transnational identity, and the immanence of performance as an expanded historical methodology. Bennahum traces the genealogy of the female Gypsy presence in her iconic operatic role from her genesis in the ancient Mediterranean world, her emergence as flamenco artist in the architectural spaces of Islamic Spain, her persistent manifestation in Picasso, and her contemporary relevance on stage. This many-layered geography of the Gypsy dancer provides the book with its unique nonlinear form that opens new pathways to reading performance and writing history. Includes rare archival photographs of Gypsy artists.
Author : Richard Langham Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108638813
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Carmen Abroad written by Richard Langham Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 'old world' to the 'new' and back again, this transnational history of the performance and reception of Bizet's Carmen – whose subject has become a modern myth and its heroine a symbol – provides new understanding of the opera's enduring yet ever-evolving and resituated presence and popularity. This book examines three stages of cultural transfer: the opera's establishment in the repertoire; its performance, translation, adaptation and appropriation in Europe, the Americas and Australia; its cultural 'work' in Soviet Russia, in Japan in the era of Westernisation, in southern, regionalist France and in Carmen's 'homeland', Spain. As the volume reveals the ways in which Bizet's opera swiftly travelled the globe from its Parisian premiere, readers will understand how the story, the music, the staging and the singers appealed to audiences in diverse geographical, artistic and political contexts.
