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Book Synopsis Gaetano Donizetti by : James P. Cassaro
Download or read book Gaetano Donizetti written by James P. Cassaro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaetano Donizetti: A Research and Information Guide offers an annotated reference guide to the life and works of this important Italian opera composer. The book opens with a complete chronology of Donizetti's life (1797-1848) and career, relating it to contemporary events. The balance of the book details secondary resources and other works, including general sources, catalogs, correspondence, biographical sources, critical works; production/review sources, singers and theaters, and the individual operas.
Book Synopsis A History of Late Eighteenth Century Drama, 1750-1800 by : Allardyce Nicoll
Download or read book A History of Late Eighteenth Century Drama, 1750-1800 written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Opera written by Joseph Wechsberg and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2023-09-02 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Opera is enjoyed only by those who know something about it. This is the idea behind this book... It was written for people who love opera and want to know a little more about its history and evolution, its lore and lure, and the people who create and re-create it.” — Joseph Wechsberg, Foreword to The Opera Joseph Wechsberg — musician and lifelong opera addict, claqueur, listener and critic — takes the reader on a journey through centuries of operatic history, from Dafne, performed during the 1590s, generally thought to be the first opera, to productions at La Scala, the Metropolitan or Vienna’s Staatsoper. He explains why, of the 42,000 operas said to have been written, only a few hundred survive. These classics are discussed, with analyses of their thematic components and musical qualities and biographical vignettes of their composers, and performers. “Mr. Wechsberg has written this book very much with the inexperienced opera-goer in mind... a readable and enjoyable summary of all that the novice to the opera house should know about. Within his survey appears a short account of operatic history and material on all the people concerned with opera: composers and librettists, singers, players, managers, conductors, producers, audiences, claques and critics.” — M.F.R., Music & Letters “Even the informed reader can learn from Wechsberg how to integrate his material and achieve a degree of perspective when viewing the enormous historical landscape that provides the background for the evolution of [the opera].” — Elaine Brody, Notes
Book Synopsis Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Naaman-Zwillingsbrüder by : John Denison Champlin
Download or read book Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Naaman-Zwillingsbrüder written by John Denison Champlin and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt by :
Download or read book The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt written by and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dramaturgical Leaves: Essays about Musical Works for the Stage and Queries about the Stage, Its Composers and Performers, the third volume in Janita R. Hall-Swadley’s The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt, Liszt heralds his admiration for early nineteenth-century opera and musical stage works. He honors Gluck, the musical prophet, as the cultivator of dramatic truth in the Romantic opera Orpheus, expounds on Beethoven’s harmonic inventions and innovative treatment of form in Fidelio, and argues for the latter’s incidental music to Goethe’s Egmont as the epitome of music organicism, a complete unity of words and tone. He also comments on Weber’s Euryanthe as offering the most progressive musical characterizations and declamation—even more so than his popular work Der Freischütz—and on how both works prefigure Wagner’s music dramas; awards Mendelssohn, whose genius Liszt ranks only slightly less than Beethoven’s, top honors for creating in Midsummer’s Night Dream the highest standards of music poetry; suggests how Scribe and Meyerbeer’s Robert the Devil paints a mental image of art’s eternal flames, where poet and musician share equal space in the development of music tragedy; reveals how the poetic deficiencies in the libretto to Schubert’s Alfonso and Estrella are too easily overlooked because of the music’s melodic and lyrical supremacy; and offers in contrast Auber’s Mute from Portici, a remarkable text by many historically picturesque musical motives that are universal and nationalistic at the same time. Finally Liszt offers an early gender study in music in his essay about Bellini’s Montague and Capulet (as well as its impact on nineteenth-century audiences), a look at Boieldieu’s White Lady as a sublime depiction of literary music, and Donizetti’s Favorite as colored with a special type of imagery, a laterna magica, in Liszt’s hand. The beloved soprano Pauline Viardot-Garcia receives special attention in an essay devoted entirely to her, and Liszt proffers a critique of entr’acte music as a pointless tradition that dethrones music and insults the artist and composer by making music a “palate cleanser.” This volume includes a detailed discussion about what it meant to be patronized by Liszt and how his support—financial, literary, and musical—helped shape many a music career. It also offers commentary on how gender in opera was sometimes obscured not only for dramatic interest but also as part of the process of outlining a nation’s identity,as well as a thorough study of Liszt’s concepts of Gestalt theory, the Archetype, and his musical Weltanschauung (his musical "world view"), all revealing his contribution to 19th-century music philosophy as it relates to opera. Finally, a historical review of entr’acte music is presented—how it began and how it developed—to clarify Liszt’s stance against it, making this volume a necessary read for music historians, serious musicians, and music connoisseurs alike.
Book Synopsis Naaman-Zwillingsbrüder by : John Denison Champlin
Download or read book Naaman-Zwillingsbrüder written by John Denison Champlin and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by : Champlin (jr.)
Download or read book Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians written by Champlin (jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis London Stage, 1660-1800 by : Charles Beecher Hogan
Download or read book London Stage, 1660-1800 written by Charles Beecher Hogan and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Venanzio Rauzzini in Britain by : Paul Francis Rice
Download or read book Venanzio Rauzzini in Britain written by Paul Francis Rice and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable career of Venanzio Rauzzini (1746-1810) sheds new light on changing musical tastes in late eighteenth-century Britain. Rauzzini was a leading soprano castrato who sang in the premiere of Mozart's Lucio Silla in 1772. Mozart was so pleased with the singer that he composed the famous motet Exsultate Jubilate for him. This book examines Rauzzini's career in Britain, starting with his three seasons as a principal singer at the King's Theatre in London (1774-77). Rauzzini was the first castrato to make Britain his home, and he enjoyed a multifaceted career there as a singer, concert director, composer (operas, chamber music, and songs), and voice teacher. Rauzzini's leadership of the Bath subscription concerts from 1780-1810 reveals the degree to which shifts in the social demographics of Bath over this period caused him to reevaluate his compositional choices, especially in light of the patriotic fervor that swept the nation during the protracted war with France. Furthermore, the recovery of much of the repertory performed during these concerts provides specific insights into issues of concert management at the time. Paul F. Rice, Professor of Musicology in the School of Music, Memorial University of Newfoundland, is the author of four previous books and has edited scores for CD recordings on the Naxos, Dorian, and Centaur labels.
Book Synopsis The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by : Oscar Thompson
Download or read book The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians written by Oscar Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 2506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Augener & Co's. Universal Circulating Musical Library with Supplements by : Augener & Co
Download or read book Catalogue of Augener & Co's. Universal Circulating Musical Library with Supplements written by Augener & Co and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A catalogue of a miscellaneous collection of music ... on sale by : Calkin and Budd
Download or read book A catalogue of a miscellaneous collection of music ... on sale written by Calkin and Budd and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by : George Grove
Download or read book Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians written by George Grove and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The La Scala Encyclopedia of the Opera by : Giorgio Bagnoli
Download or read book The La Scala Encyclopedia of the Opera written by Giorgio Bagnoli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a broad range of styles, this comprehensive volume includes entries for more than 450 operas that have been performed over the last four centuries. Organized from A to Z for easy reference, it's a complete guide that's certain to inform and entertain any opera buff. 500 photos.
Book Synopsis Observations on the Castrati in Britain by : Paul F. Rice
Download or read book Observations on the Castrati in Britain written by Paul F. Rice and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the experiences of castrato singers in Britain during the long eighteenth-century. These singers stood apart from traditional cultural and sexual norms of the period by nature of their altered bodies. The work investigates the fears surrounding the possibility of Catholic influence in the nation, and the ability of sensual Italian operatic music to feminize the male population and weaken the country’s leaders. The castrato as a possible romantic rival to “normal” men is also discussed, while the contributions of the castrati to cultural leadership in the areas of teaching, concert direction and social influence are examined. This book will appeal to music historians and those interested in cultural and gender studies.
Book Synopsis The New spectator, with the sage opinions of John Bull by :
Download or read book The New spectator, with the sage opinions of John Bull written by and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The European Magazine and London Review, by the Philological Society of London by :
Download or read book The European Magazine and London Review, by the Philological Society of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
