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Author : Edwin O. Sachs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Modern Opera Houses and Theatres written by Edwin O. Sachs and published by . This book was released on with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Steadman
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787359158
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Renaissance Fun written by Philip Steadman and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes. How did the machines behind these shows work? How exactly were chariots filled with singers let down onto the stage? How were flaming dragons made to fly across the sky? How were seas created on stage? How did mechanical birds imitate real birdsong? What was ‘artificial music’, three centuries before Edison and the phonograph? How could pipe organs be driven and made to play themselves by waterpower alone? And who were the architects, engineers, and craftsmen who created these wonders? All these questions are answered. At the end of the book we visit the lost ‘garden of marvels’ at Pratolino with its many grottoes, automata and water jokes; and we attend the performance of Mercury and Mars in Parma in 1628, with its spectacular stage effects and its music by Claudio Monteverdi – one of the places where opera was born. Renaissance Fun is offered as an entertainment in itself. But behind the show is a more serious scholarly argument, centred on the enormous influence of two ancient writers on these subjects, Vitruvius and Hero. Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture were widely studied by Renaissance theatre designers. Hero of Alexandria wrote the Pneumatics, a collection of designs for surprising and entertaining devices that were the models for sixteenth and seventeenth century automata. A second book by Hero On Automata-Making – much less well known, then and now – describes two miniature theatres that presented plays without human intervention. One of these, it is argued, provided the model for the type of proscenium theatre introduced from the mid-sixteenth century, the generic design which is still built today. As the influence of Vitruvius waned, the influence of Hero grew.
Author : James Denholm Van Trump
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life and Architecture in Pittsburgh written by James Denholm Van Trump and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marshall McLuhan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537430058
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Understanding Media written by Marshall McLuhan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-04 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.
Author : Barnard Hewitt
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781258153434
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (534 download)
Download or read book The Renaissance Stage written by Barnard Hewitt and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Additional Translator Is George R. Kernodle.
Author : Albert Goldman
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306803192
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Wagner On Music And Drama written by Albert Goldman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1988-03-22 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781863171526
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (715 download)
Download or read book Building a Masterpiece written by Anne Watson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building a masterpiece explores some of the untold chapters in the long history of the Opera House's gestation, development and completion -- of individuals whose careers were made or broken by the Opera House, the companies whose reputations were secured through their association with the building, and the pioneering construction methods, innovative technologies and methodologies developed to meet the demands of its unprecedented design and challenging construction. The workers who built the building, the politicians, architects and members of the public who championed it and its often beleaguered architect are discussed as is its current world status as a symbol of Australia.To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Sydney Opera House, this new edition of Building a Masterpiece will include a new chapter on another little known and much misunderstood story: the architect who took over from Utzon and completed the project.
Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521648578
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Greek Theatre Performance written by David Wiles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specially written for students and enthusiasts, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre and cultural life.
Author : Karl Toepfer
Publisher : Vosuri Media
ISBN 13 : 1733249737
Total Pages : 1320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Pantomime written by Karl Toepfer and published by Vosuri Media. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers perhaps the most comprehensive history of pantomime ever written. No other book so thoroughly examines the varieties of pantomimic performance from the early Roman Empire, when the term “pantomime” came into use, until the present. After thoroughly examining the complexities and startlingly imaginative performance strategies of Roman pantomime, the author identifies the peculiar political circumstances that revived and shaped pantomime in France and Austria in the eighteenth century, leading to the Pierrot obsession in the nineteenth century. Modernist aesthetics awakened a huge, highly diverse fascination with pantomime. The book explores an extraordinary variety of modernist and postmodern approaches to pantomime in Germany, Austria, France, numerous countries of Eastern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Chile, England, and The United States. Making use of many performance and historical documents never before included in pantomime histories, the book also discusses pantomime’s messy relation to dance, its peculiar uses of music, its “modernization” through silent film aesthetics, and the extent to which writers, performers, or directors are “authors” of pantomimes. Just as importantly, the book explains why, more than any other performance medium, pantomime allows the spectator to see the body as the agent of narrative action.
Author : Willmar Sauter
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
ISBN 13 : 9789187235924
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Theatre of Drottningholm - Then and Now written by Willmar Sauter and published by University of Exeter Press. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thetre of Drottiningholm - Then and Now tells the story of the Drottningholm Court Theatre, from 1766 - the year it was built - to today's performances presented during annual summer festivals. The court theatre was rarely used after Gustav III's death in 1792 until it was rediscovered in 1921, luckily for us, because this has meant that not only the auditorium but also the stage machinery, painted flats and backdrops have been almost perfectly preserved. This book provides a vivid picture of the Drottningholm Court Theatre: the architecture, the many different activities which took place here during the Gustavian era, and the use made of the theatre since its rediscovery to explore the nature of Baroque performance....The Court Theatre at Drottninholm is a work of art in the sense John Keats envisioned in his Ode to A Grecian Urn: 'a thing of beauty is a joy forever.' But it is more than an objet d'art, an antiquarian piece to be enjoyed by experts, Its aesthetic values should not make us forget that it is also a historical document, which adds to our knowledge about how theatre was performed and...experienced during the epoch when Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz created it. --Cover.
Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803297654
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Opera and Drama written by Richard Wagner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera and Drama outlines a new, revolutionary type of musical stage work, which would finally materialize as The Ring of the Nibelung. Wagner's music drama, as he called it, aimed at a union of poetry, drama, music, and stagecraft. ø In a rare book-length study, the composer discusses the enhancement of dramas by operatic treatment and the subjects that make the best dramas. The expected Wagnerian voltage is here: in his thinking about myths such as Oedipus, his theories about operatic goals and musical possibilities, his contempt for musical politics, his exaltation of feeling and fantasy, his reflections about genius, and his recasting of Schopenhauer. ø This edition includes the full text of volume 2 of William Ashton Ellis's 1893 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.
Author : Dr Joyce Davidson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409488047
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Emotion, Place and Culture written by Dr Joyce Davidson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed a rapid rise in engagement with emotion and affect across a broad range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, with geographers among others making a significant contribution by examining the emotional intersections between people and places. Building on the achievements of Emotional Geographies (2005), the editors have brought together leading scholars such as Nigel Thrift, Alphonso Lingis and Frances Dyson as well as young, up and coming academics from a diverse range of disciplines to investigate feelings and affect in various spatial and social contexts, environments and landscapes. The book is divided into five sections covering the themes of remembering, understanding, mourning, belonging, and enchanting.
Author : Robin Blaetz
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822340447
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Women's Experimental Cinema written by Robin Blaetz and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers introductions to the work of fifteen avant-garde American women filmmakers.
Author : N. Alan Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940771335
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Understanding Music written by N. Alan Clark and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music moves through time; it is not static. In order to appreciate music wemust remember what sounds happened, and anticipate what sounds might comenext. This book takes you on a journey of music from past to present, from the Middle Ages to the Baroque Period to the 20th century and beyond!
Author : Karyl Charna Lynn
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461706785
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Italian Opera Houses and Festivals written by Karyl Charna Lynn and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian Opera in the 18th and 19th centuries was an experience unequaled anywhere else in the world. The unique emotion, flavor, and passion that existed have yet to be attained in any other country. Opera houses in Italy are the birthplace of this great art form. They represent its beauty and richness. More than just concrete, stone, glass, and wood, they are alive, each with a character and history of its own. This work recreates the social, political, architectural, and performance histories of each house by including eyewitness accounts from Italian newspapers, journals, and books of the time. It covers more than 50 Italian opera houses and festivals, organized by their city of origin and geographic region. Each chapter is a journey back in time, beginning with the first theaters and performances in the city and concluding with an architectural description of the principal theater and a practical information guide for visitors (including hotel recommendations). The operatic activities of the main theater, including inaugurations, important performances, and world premieres, are also covered. A photospread, along with brief descriptions of opera-related sites, including the birthplaces, dwellings, and museums of Italy's greatest composers, give an even more complete portrait of the art.
Author : Terry Castle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019508098X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Female Thermometer written by Terry Castle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression and sexual ambiguity.
Author : Jonathan Pitches
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134332327
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting written by Jonathan Pitches and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-21 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian tradition is a major area of theatre studies Uses a range of historical and archival material, including previously unpublished material from the Michael Chekov archives International market - UK, America. Potential interest in Russia and France
