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A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760

Author : Eleanor Selfridge-Field
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804744379
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760 written by Eleanor Selfridge-Field and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1637 to the middle of the eighteenth century, Venice was the world center for operatic activity. No exact chronology of the Venetian stage during this period has previously existed in any language. This reference work, the culmination of two decades of research throughout Europe, provides a secure ordering of 800 operas and 650 related works from the period 1660 to 1760. Derived from thousands of manuscript news-sheets and other unpublished materials, the Chronology provides a wealth of new information on about 1500 works. Each entry in this production-based survey provides not only perfunctory reference information but also a synopsis of the text, eyewitness accounts, and pointers to surviving musical scores. What emerges, in addition to secure dates, is a profusion of new information about events, personalities, patronage, and the response of opera to changing political and social dynamics. Appendixes and supplements provide basic information in Venetian history for music, drama, and theater scholars who are not specialists in Italian studies.

A Sociable Moment

Author : Colleen Reardon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190607521
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book A Sociable Moment written by Colleen Reardon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After their military defeat by the Florentines in the mid-sixteenth century, the citizens of Siena turned from politics to celebratory, social occasions to express their civic identity and show their capacity for collective action. In the first major work of its kind, Colleen Reardon opens a window on the ways in which the Sienese absorbed the new genre of opera into their own festive apparatus and challenges the prevailing view that operatic productions in the city were merely an extension of Medici power to the provinces. It was, rather, members of the expatriate Chigi family who exploited the festive impulse of their countrymen, coordinating operatic performances with their triumphant visits home by activating ties of friendship and family as well as connections to Sienese institutions, most notably the Assicurate, possibly the first all-female academy in Italy. If the Chigi proved successful at inserting opera into larger patterns of sociability that conveyed the very essence of what it meant to be Sienese (senesità), their successor, the flamboyant playwright and librettist Girolamo Gigli, struggled in his attempts to transform operatic performances into professional enterprises. Fluidly written and richly embellished with anecdotes from historical chronicles, A Sociable Moment offers insight into the Sienese experience with opera during the genre's rapid expansion throughout the Italian peninsula during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

The Life of George Frederick Handel

Author : William Smyth Rockstro
Publisher : London, Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Life of George Frederick Handel written by William Smyth Rockstro and published by London, Macmillan. This book was released on 1883 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250–1750

Author : Anthony M. Cummings
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226822788
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250–1750 written by Anthony M. Cummings and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Florence is justly celebrated as one of the world's most important cities. It enjoys mythic status and occupies an enviable place in the historical imagination. But its music-historical importance is less well understood than it should be. If Florence was the city of Dante, Michelangelo, and Galileo, it was also the birthplace of the madrigal, opera, and the piano. This is the only book of its kind, a comprehensive account of music in Florence from the late Middle Ages until the end of the Medici dynasty in the mid-eighteenth century. It recounts the principal developments in the history of Florence's contributions to music and how music was heard and cultivated in the city, from civic and religious institutions to private patronage and the academies. Scholars from sister disciplines and a general readership interested in the history and culture of Florence will find this book an invaluable complement to studies of the art, literature, and political thought of the late-medieval and early-modern eras and the quasi-legendary figures in the Florentine cultural pantheon"--

Opera Companies and Houses of Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

Author : Karyl Lynn Zietz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476612021
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Opera Companies and Houses of Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand written by Karyl Lynn Zietz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although books have been written about various opera houses throughout the world, no one work has covered more than a relatively small number of the larger, well known companies and houses, and none have made more than brief mention of the smaller houses. No book has comprehensively listed opera repertories. Little, in sum, has been written about any of the smaller companies and houses located in non-English-speaking countries. This is the most comprehensive reference book ever written on opera companies and houses in Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand--over 300, from the well known to the smaller. Each entry includes a history of the opera house or company, the works (title and composer) and type of productions offered, company staff, world and country premieres, repertory, and practical information on the theater's address, nearby hotel accommodations and how to order tickets. Most entries conclude with a bibliography.

Word-by-word Translations of Songs and Arias: Italian

Author : Berton Coffin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810804638
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Word-by-word Translations of Songs and Arias: Italian written by Berton Coffin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1966 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berton Coffin, "creator of The Singer's Repertoire," considers this volume to be Volume VIII of the set and explains that "Mr. Shoep has concentrated on the Italian opera repertoire, and Mr. Harris has concentrated on the Italian song repertoire."--Preface, p. viii.

Beyond the Skin

Author : Bianca Maria Pirani
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443875805
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Skin written by Bianca Maria Pirani and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We are our bodies”, “we have our bodies”, “we make our bodies”. This “three-headed” axiom has made the body the “parasite” of modern culture. The individual that is fit for modernity was, and certainly still is, expected and encouraged to embrace its corporeal existence in order to find an answer to one of the most frequently asked questions in the modern Western world: “Who am I?” For those who live in Western societies, with a history of individualism, the temptation is to look inside oneself, to examine one’s thoughts and feelings, as if self-identity is a treasure locked inside. The desire to change the skin one inhabits, to cite Almodòvar, has become “territorialized” in on-screen media, digital sites and social networks, shuffling the cards as if in an attempt to dance on the ruins of passing time. Everything is at play, everything is art. Madonna is like Michelangelo. Comic strips are like eight hundred page novels by Tolstoy. What is up for discussion is the advanced transformation of persons into spectators. The multiplication of screens creates a “visual party”. The definition of the boundaries between the social sensorium and today’s advanced technologies is the fundamental, and as yet unsolved, methodological problem arising from the contemporary “spatial turn” that is coming to maturity thanks to the re-orientation of the classical digital paradigm. “Reclaiming the social throughout embodied practices” (Greenwood, 1994) is basically the ultimate objective of this book. The thinking, feeling and acting body will figure as prominently as the mind, cognition, and rationality in combining the framework of the research and the methodology underpinning its development. The body is, indeed, the origin of humans’ most individual experiences and actions, since it is the point of application of the tuning and calibration of the senses and the general training of social skills. The notion of “body in action in context” is, consequently, the methodological proposal that Beyond the Skin: The Boundaries between Bodies and Technologies in an Unequal World offers to sociology, in order to surpass the “new alliance” between human senses and the new media, an alliance staged by bodies moving faster than thought across the maps of contemporary mobile spaces.

Modern Languages for Musicians

Author : Julie Yarbrough
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945193067
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Modern Languages for Musicians written by Julie Yarbrough and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using English as her starting point, the author introduces the International Phonetic Alphabet-the standard for pronunciation used by singers-and applies its symbols to the three languages essential to a study of vocal literature-German, Fre nch and Italian. The book is dedicated to a simplified grammatical approach which will ultimately enable all musicians to read treatises and journals, translate song texts, perform with understanding, and command the basic language skills of conversation.

Aldous Huxley

Author : Alessandro Maurini
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498513786
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Aldous Huxley written by Alessandro Maurini and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aldous Huxley: The Political Thought of a Man of Letters argues that Huxley is not a man of letters engaged in politics, but a political thinker who chooses literature to spread his ideas. His preference for the dystopian genre is due to his belief in the tremendous impact of dystopia on twentieth-century political thought. His political thinking is not systematic, but this does not stop his analysis from supplying elements that are original and up-to-date, and that represent fascinating contributions of political theory in all the spheres that he examines from anti-Marxism to anti-positivism, from political realism to elitism, from criticism of mass society to criticism of totalitarianism, from criticism of ideologies to the future of liberal democracy, from pacifism to ecological communitarianism. Huxley clearly grasped the unsolved issues of contemporary liberalism, and the importance of his influence on many twentieth-century and present-day political thinkers ensures that his ideas remain indispensable in the current liberal-democratic debate. Brave New World is without doubt Huxley’s most successful political manifesto. While examining the impassioned struggle for the development of all human potentialities, it yet manages not to close the doors definitively on the rebirth of utopia in the age of dystopia.

Early Music History

Author : Iain Fenlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521104319
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Early Music History written by Iain Fenlon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives preference to studies pursuing interdisciplinary approaches and to those developing novel methodological ideas. The scope is exceptionally broad and includes manuscript studies, textual criticism, iconography, studies of the relationship between words and music and the relationship between music and society. Articles in volume four include: Toledo, Rome and the legacy of Gaul; Classical tragedy in the history of early opera in Rome; and Reading and singing: on the genesis of occidental music-writing.

Handel

Author : Jonathan Keates
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407020838
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Handel written by Jonathan Keates and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985. This fully revised and updated new edition - published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composers death - charts in detail Handel's life, from his youth in Germany, through his brilliantly successful Italian sojourn, to the opulence and squalor of Georgian London where he made his permanent home. For over two decades Handel was absorbed in London's heady but precarious operatic world. But even his phenomenal energy and determination could not overcome the public's growing indifference to Italian opera in the 1730s, and he turned finally to oratorio, a genre which he made peculiarly his own and in which he created some of his finest works, such as Saul, Messiah, Belshazzar and Jephtha. Over the last two decades a complete revolution in Handel's status has taken place. He is now seen both as a titanic figure in music, whose compositions have found a permanent place in the international repertoire, and as one of the world's favourite composers, with snatches of his work accompanying weddings, funerals and television commercials the world over. Skillfully interwoven with the account of Handel's life are commentaries on all his major works, as well as many less familiar pieces by this most inventive, expressive and captivating of composers. Handel was an extraordinary genius whose career abounded in reversals that would have crushed anyone with less resilience and will power, and Jonathan Keates writes about his life and work with sympathy and scrutiny.

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Author : George Grove
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1042 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Music and Musicians written by George Grove and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Author : George Grove
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians written by George Grove and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Complete Encyclopædia of Music

Author : John Weeks Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1022 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Complete Encyclopædia of Music written by John Weeks Moore and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Encyclopedia Americana

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 966 pages
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Download or read book The Encyclopedia Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

DOMENICO SCARLATTI

Author : Ralph Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691027081
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book DOMENICO SCARLATTI written by Ralph Kirkpatrick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1983-12-21 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A famous harpsichordist's study of the life, times, and works of one of the greatest composers for his instrument."--Cover.

The Hispanic Connection

Author : Zenia S. DaSilva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313085277
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Hispanic Connection written by Zenia S. DaSilva and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DaSilva draws together key essays dealing with the span of Spanish and Latin American arts, ranging from literature, music, film, and ballet to painting. Scholars and researchers involved with the scope of Spanish and Spanish American arts will find this collection of particular value. The selections center on basic themes including the icons of Spain, the use of characters from classic Spanish literature in performing and visual arts, romantic and modern Spanish writers and their influences, and the fusion of Mexican and Spanish culture. The selections center on ten basic themes: The early icons of Spain; the uses of Don Quixote from operas to painting; Don Juan is given a similar treatment, with theater, film, and ballet in addition to literature and opera; an examination of areas of fusion of Spanish and Mexican culture; Spanish Romantics in opera and ballet; modern writers whose work appears in musical transcription; modern writers whose novels appear in film; an examination of works that parody earlier pieces; a survey of the interrelationship between painting and its literary sources; and a look at the variegated artistic peregrinations of such contemporaries as Marquez, Puig, Skarmeta, and others. Scholars and researchers involved with the scope of Spanish and Spanish American arts will find this collection of particular value.