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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Press
ISBN 13 : 1904303420
Total Pages : 2890 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Complete Libretti of Giacomo Meyerbeer in the Original and in Translation written by and published by Cambridge Scholars Press. This book was released on with total page 2890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527581039
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Meyerbeer's L'Africaine written by Robert Ignatius Letellier and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vasco de Gama was the last collaboration between Giacomo Meyerbeer and Eugène Scribe, the famous playwright and librettist. The work had intermittently preoccupied them both since 1838, and it had become legendary as L’Africaine years before its completion. The first version of the opera became known as the Vecchia Africana of the long years of Meyerbeer’s anxious labours on this most troublesome of his operas An adoring public gave Meyerbeer a tumultuous posthumous accolade on the première of L'Africaine on 28 April 1865, a year after his death. This opera which involved Meyerbeer and Scribe’s creative energies for so long includes in one last and splendid achievement many of the elements that had hitherto featured in varying degrees in all their other joint creations. Both composer and librettist were men of immense imagination and genius. Between them, they created four works of great power and beauty that radically affected the history of opera. This study examines the origins and creation of the opera, its dramaturgy and musical style, the history of its astonishing reception around the world until the 1930s, its revival in more recent times. One of the special features of the book is the collection of iconography associated with the work, and its interpretation by many of the greatest singers of the Golden Age of opera. This imagery and many musical examples help to bring out the themes explored in this work more fully.
Author : Giacomo Meyerbeer
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Total Pages : 42 pages
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Download or read book Meyerbeer's Opera L'Africaine written by Giacomo Meyerbeer and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527527581
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Giacomo Meyerbeer written by Robert Ignatius Letellier and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giacomo Meyerbeer was once one of the most famous of all opera composers, enjoying into the twentieth century the same universal admiration and performance as a composer like Puccini does today. Through a series of adverse factors, his reputation was seriously damaged with the resurgence of nationalism and the growing ant-Semitism in France and Germany at the end of the nineteenth century, the propagation of a Wagnerian operatic aesthetic, the decline of the bel canto vocal tradition, and the disfavour manifested towards the heroism of French grand opera. All these factors, and especially the ban on his music in Nazi Germany, meant that Meyerbeer’s reputation was seriously overshadowed in the years after the Second World War. During the 1960s and 1970s, a tentative interest began to manifest itself, and with the advent of the new millennium, a growing rediscovery of his operas has been apparent. Not least in this process has been the recovery of all the composer’s private papers and their scholarly editing. His life and work have been the subject of a growing number of informed studies which have enabled radical reassessment. This volume takes a fresh look at this process of rediscovery by considering the composer in terms of the primary sources (diaries and letters) now available for forming a more complete and detailed biography unclouded by prejudicial or uninformed opinions. The extraordinary nature of Meyerbeer’s Jewish background and the role of this family in Prussian emancipation are also considered. Most importantly, however, his life and works are presented in a critical chronology that is fundamentally based on his own private papers, with testimony (both positive and negative) from many contemporary sources. A detailed iconography is integral to this process, and helps to bring Meyerbeer's story and music more vividly to life.
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Total Pages : 1640 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Grove
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Total Pages : 930 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians written by George Grove and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Grove
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Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers, English and Foreign written by George Grove and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Bellman
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555533199
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (331 download)
Download or read book The Exotic In Western Music written by Jonathan Bellman and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exoticism has flourished in western music since the seventeenth century. A blend of familiar and unfamiliar gestures, this vibrant musical language takes the listener beyond the ordinary by evoking foreign cultures and forbidden desires. In this pioneering collection, distinguished musicologists explore the ways in which western composers have used exotic themes for dramatic and striking effect. Interweaving historical, musical, and cultural perspectives, the contributors examine the compositional use of exotic styles and traditions in the works of artists as diverse as Mozart and George Harrison. The volume sheds new light on a significant yet largely neglected art form, and it makes a valuable contribution to music history and cultural studies.
Author : Jennifer Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443830720
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Giacomo Meyerbeer written by Jennifer Jackson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864) was the most successful composer of grand operas in nineteenth-century Paris, whose music continued to be frequently performed worldwide into the following century. Today, recent scholars acknowledge his stature but his operas have become stage rarities. There is normally a gap on shelves in libraries and bookshops between Mendelssohn and Mozart (Messaien and Monteverdi for the better resourced). There is no biography or broad evaluation of Meyerbeer in print in English. This study of the vicissitudes of Meyerbeer’s reputation complements introductions to his works and the volumes of academic essays in English and other European languages. While reputation forming has recently offered several interesting studies, it is rare for a composer to be the subject. This volume will be of interest primarily to opera enthusiasts, and to libraries and musicologists worldwide.
Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1102008656
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Opera Journeys’ Guide: Opera at Movie Theaters(Season 2013-2014) written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Music Library Association
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Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Notes written by Music Library Association and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 458 pages
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Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 368 pages
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Download or read book Le Guide Musical written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giacomo Meyerbeer
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838638446
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)
Download or read book The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The years of celebrity, 1850-1856 written by Giacomo Meyerbeer and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 3 covers a time span that preeminently represents the period in the composer's life known as The Years of International Fame (1850-56). Confirmed as the major figure on the operatic scene, and freed from the more onerous duties of his official position, Meyerbeer was able to enjoy his most remarkable period of stability and renown, as the detailed and absorbing diary entries reveal. These years saw the composing, rehearsing, and staging of L'Etoile du Nord (1854), and his personal supervision of major productions in London, Dresden, Stuttgart, and Vienna.
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Total Pages : 870 pages
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Download or read book The Musical World written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Charlton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825895
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera written by David Charlton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-04 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2003 Companion is a fascinating and accessible exploration of the world of grand opera. Through this volume a team of scholars and writers on opera examine those important Romantic operas which embraced the Shakespearean sweep of tragedy, history, love in time of conflict, and the struggle for national self-determination. Rival nations, rival religions and violent resolutions are common elements, with various social or political groups represented in the form of operatic choruses. The book traces the origins and development of a style created during an increasingly technical age, which exploited the world-renowned skills of Parisian stage-designers, artists, and dancers as well as singers. It analyses in detail the grand operas by Rossini, Auber, Meyerbeer and Halévy, discusses grand opera in Russia and Germany, and also in the Czech lands, Italy, Britain and the Americas. The volume also includes an essay by the renowned opera director David Pountney.
Author : Jens Hesselager
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315466430
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Grand Opera Outside Paris written by Jens Hesselager and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century French grand opera was a musical and cultural phenomenon with an important and widespread transnational presence in Europe. Primary attention in the major studies of the genre has so far been on the Parisian context for which the majority of the works were originally written. In contrast, this volume takes account of a larger geographical and historical context, bringing the Europe-wide impact of the genre into focus. The book presents case studies including analyses of grand opera in small-town Germany and Switzerland; grand operas adapted for Scandinavian capitals, a cockney audience in London, and a court audience in Weimar; and Portuguese and Russian grand operas after the French model. Its overarching aim is to reveal how grand operas were used – performed, transformed, enjoyed and criticised, emulated and parodied – and how they became part of musical, cultural and political life in various European settings. The picture that emerges is complex and diversified, yet it also testifies to the interrelated processes of cultural and political change as bourgeois audiences, at varying paces and with local variations, increased their influence, and as discourses on language, nation and nationalism influenced public debates in powerful ways.
