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Author : Paul John Salvatore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Favart's Unpublished Plays written by Paul John Salvatore and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Charlton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521887607
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Opera in the Age of Rousseau written by David Charlton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.
Author : Julia Doe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022674339X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Comedians of the King written by Julia Doe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-03-21 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyric theater in ancien régime France was an eminently political art, tied to the demands of court spectacle. This was true not only of tragic opera (tragédie lyrique) but also its comic counterpart, opéra comique, a form tracing its roots to the seasonal trade fairs of Paris. While historians have long privileged the genre’s popular origins, opéra comique was brought under the protection of the French crown in 1762, thus consolidating a new venue where national music might be debated and defined. In The Comedians of the King, Julia Doe traces the impact of Bourbon patronage on the development of opéra comique in the turbulent prerevolutionary years. Drawing on both musical and archival evidence, the book presents the history of this understudied genre and unpacks the material structures that supported its rapid evolution at the royally sponsored Comédie-Italienne. Doe demonstrates how comic theater was exploited in, and worked against, the monarchy’s carefully cultivated public image—a negotiation that became especially fraught after the accession of the music-loving queen, Marie Antoinette. The Comedians of the King examines the aesthetic and political tensions that arose when a genre with popular foundations was folded into the Bourbon propaganda machine, and when a group of actors trained at the Parisian fairs became official representatives of the sovereign, or comédiens ordinaires du roi.
Author : Galina I. Yermolenko
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317061179
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture written by Galina I. Yermolenko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the first book-length scholarly study of the pervasiveness and significance of Roxolana in the European imagination. Roxolana, or "Hurrem Sultan," was a sixteenth-century Ukrainian woman who made an unprecedented career from harem slave and concubine to legal wife and advisor of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566). Her influence on Ottoman affairs generated legends in many a European country. The essays gathered here represent an interdisciplinary survey of her legacy; the contributors view Roxolana as a transnational figure that reflected the shifting European attitudes towards "the Other," and they investigate her image in a wide variety of sources, ranging from early modern historical chronicles, dramas and travel writings, to twentieth-century historical novels and plays. Also included are six European source texts featuring Roxolana, here translated into modern English for the first time. Importantly, this collection examines Roxolana from both Western and Eastern European perspectives; source material is taken from England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Poland, and Ukraine. The volume is an important contribution to the study of early modern transnationalism, cross-cultural exchange, and notions of identity, the Self, and the Other.
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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book A Critical Bibliography of French Literature V4 18th C written by and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George J. Buelow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521033312
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (333 download)
Download or read book New Mattheson Studies written by George J. Buelow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays brings together the current research on Johann Mattheson (1681-1764), an influential musician and chronicler of musical thought in eighteenth-century Germany. The essays explore the cultural climate of Hamburg during Mattheson's lifetime; Mattheson as a composer; Mattheson's relationship to his contemporaries; and Mattheson's influence on developing musical theories and aesthetics.
Author : Donald J. Grout
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231507720
Total Pages : 1047 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Opera written by Donald J. Grout and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-18 with total page 1047 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have. The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day. A Short History of Opera examines not only the standard performance repertoire, but also works considered important for the genre's development. Its expanded scope investigates opera from Eastern European countries and Finland. The section on twentieth-century opera has been reorganized around national operatic traditions including a chapter devoted solely to opera in the United States, which incorporates material on the American musical and ties between classical opera and popular musical theater. A separate section on Chinese opera is also included. With an extensive multilanguage bibliography, more than one hundred musical examples, and stage illustrations, this authoritative one-volume survey will be invaluable to students and serious opera buffs. New fans will also find it highly accessible and informative. Extremely thorough in its coverage, A Short History of Opera is now more than ever the book to turn to for anyone who wants to know about the history of this art form.
Author : Edward Copeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521513332
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book The Silver Fork Novel written by Edward Copeland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first modern study of silver-fork novels investigates their role in the alliance of middle class and aristocratic political principles.
Author : Peter A. Tasch
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838779378
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (793 download)
Download or read book The Dramatic Cobbler written by Peter A. Tasch and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Heartz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393050806
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Music In European Capitals written by Daniel Heartz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-05-27 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glittering cultural tour of Europe's major capitals during a period of intense musical change. This volume continues the study of the eighteenth century begun in Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School 1740–1780 (1995) by focusing on the capital cities other than Vienna that were most important in the creation and diffusion of new music. It tells of events in Naples, where Vinci and Pergolesi went beyond their pre-1720 models to cultivate opera in a simpler, more direct manner, soon after christened the galant style. No less central was Venice, where Vivaldi perfected the concerto, on which were patterned the early symphonies and the newer kind of sonata. Dresden profited first from all these achievements and became, under Hasse's direction, the foremost center of Italian opera in Germany. Mannheim with its great orchestra did much to shape the modern symphony. A few years later, Paris became paramount, especially for its Opéra-Comique; during the 1770s the Opéra provided Gluck with a stage on which to cap his long international career. The book concludes with a description of Christian Bach in London, Paisiello in Saint Petersburg, and Boccherini in Madrid. This long-awaited book offers a view of eighteenth-century music that is broad and innovative while remaining sensitive to the values of those times and places. One comes away from it with an understanding of the European context behind the triumphs of Haydn and Mozart. Lavishly illustrated with music examples and reproductions, both in black-and-white and color, this master study will be of inestimable importance to scholars, cultural historians, performers, and all music lovers.
Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521109307
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (93 download)
Download or read book A History of English Drama 1660-1900 written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
Author : Margaret Ruth Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1580469019
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Musical Theater in Eighteenth-century Parma written by Margaret Ruth Butler and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you create a style of opera that speaks to everyone, when no one agrees on what it should say -- or how? French and Italian varieties of opera have intermingled and informed one another from the genre's first decades onward. Yet we still have only a hazy view of why and how those intersections occurred and what they meant to a givenopera's creators and audiences. Margaret Butler's Musical Theater in Eighteenth-Century Parma: Entertainment, Sovereignty, Reform tackles these issues, examining performance, spectatorship, and politics in the Bourbon-controlled, northern Italian city of Parma in the mid-eighteenth century. Reconstructing the French context for Tommaso Traetta's Italian operas that consciously set out to fuse French and Italian elements, Butler explores Traetta's operas and recreations in Parma of operas and ballets by Jean-Philippe Rameau and other French composers. She shows that Parma's brand of entertainment is one in which Traetta's operas occupy points along a continuum representing a long and rich tradition of adaptation and generic play. Such a reading calls into question the very notion of operatic reform, showing the need for a more flexible conception of a volatile moment in opera's history. The book elucidates the complicated circumstances in which entertainments were created that spoke not only to Parma's multicultural audiences but also to an increasingly cosmopolitan Europe. MARGARET R. BUTLER is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Author : Philip B. Thomason
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317970047
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book The Eighteenth-Century Theatre in Spain written by Philip B. Thomason and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published as a special issue of The Bulletin of Spanish Studies, The Eighteenth-Century Theatre in Spain is the second in a series of research bibliographies on the Theatre in Spain. Representing ten years of searches and compilation by its specialist authors, this volume draws together data on more than 1,500 books, articles and documents concerned with Spanish eighteenth-century theatre. Studies of plays and playwrights are included as well as material dealing with theatres, actors and stagecraft. Wherever possible, items listed have been personally examined, and their library location in Britain, Spain or USA is provided. Scholars with interests in drama will find in this single-volume work of reference a wealth of reliable information concerning this specialist field.
Author : Philippe Vendrix
Publisher : Editions Mardaga
ISBN 13 : 9782870094839
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (948 download)
Download or read book Grétry et l'Europe de l'opéra-comique written by Philippe Vendrix and published by Editions Mardaga. This book was released on 1992 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Garrick
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809308620
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Plays of David Garrick: Garrick's own plays, 1740-1766 written by David Garrick and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Garrick's accomplishments as an actor, manager, and theatrical innovator brought him great fame and fortune, and his ideas influenced not only his own age but succeeding ages as well. Yet as a playwright, a part of the elegant combination of talents that was David Garrick, he has never achieved the critical reputation he richly deserves, in main because of the unavailability of texts and the lack of proper assessment of the historic importance of his plays in the English theatre. This first complete edition makes available to scholars and students all the plays of Garrick in well edited texts, with commentary and notes. The two volumes of Garrick's own plays published together here include the twenty-two plays of the Garrick canon attributable to him. Garrick's claim to serious consideration as a playwright rests upon these plays, written between 1740 and 1775.They are not all masterpieces, but their inclusion here, arranged in chronological order, will enable the stage historian to assess Garrick's progress as a dramatist. Contents: Lethe; or, Esop in the Shades. A Dramatic Satire, 1740; The Lying Valet, 1741; Miss in Her Teens; or, The Medley of Lovers. A Farce, 1747; Lilliputt. A Dramatic Entertainment, 1756; The Male-Coquette; or, Seventeen Hundred Fifty Seven, 1757; The Guardian. A Comedy, 1759; Harlequin's Invasion; or, A Christmas Gambol, 1759; The Enchanter; or, Love and Magic. A Musical Drama, 1760; The Farmer's Return from London. An Interlude, 1762; The Clandestine Marriage. A Comedy, 1766; and Neck or Nothing. A Farce, 1766.
Author : Paul Henry Lang
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393040746
Total Pages : 1158 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Music in Western Civilization written by Paul Henry Lang and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of occidental music focuses on the function of music as an expression of the spirit and artistic life of each age.
Author : Betsy Bowden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611462444
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Wife of Bath in Afterlife written by Betsy Bowden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By focusing on one literary character, as interpreted in both verbal art and visual art at a point midway in time between the author’s era and our own, this study applies methodology appropriate for overcoming limitations posed by historical periodization and by isolation among academic specialities. Current trends in Chaucer scholarship call for diachronic afterlife studies like this one, sometimes termed “medievalism.” So far, however, nearly all such work by-passes the eighteenth century (here designated 1660-1810). Furthermore, medieval authors’ afterlives during any time period have not been analyzed by way of the multiple fields of specialization integrated into this study. The Wife of Bath is regarded through the disciplinary lenses of eighteenth-century literature, visual art, print marketing, education, folklore, music, equitation, and especially theater both in London and on the Continent.
