Musical Humor and Antonin Dvorak`s Comic Operas, Julia Adams

Автор: Harper-Scott J. P. E.
Название: Ideology in Britten`s Operas
ISBN: 1108402879 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108402873
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This thematic examination of Britten`s operas focuses on the way that ideology is presented on stage. As well as being a record of the ideological world of mid-twentieth-century Britain, these operas continue to diagnose problems in our own time. This book argues that it is timely - if uncomfortable - for current audiences to re-address his music.

Автор: Hugh Ridley
Название: Wagner and the Novel: Wagner`s Operas and the European Realist Novel: An exploration of genre
ISBN: 9042035218 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789042035218
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: This study bridges literature and music at an exciting and controversial point, offering the lover of music and literature and the specialist reader an insight into the relationship between Wagner’s operas and the nineteenth century novel, including comparisons with Rigoletto and Der Rosenkavalier in their evolution from other forms. It discusses matters of genre and national tradition, placing Wagner’s works in the heritage of the European Enlightenment.Comparisons of Wagner’s works with the novel have been fleeting, denoting only their length and complexity. Examining in principle and in detail the proximity of Wagner’s themes and techniques to the practices of the Realist novel, this study sheds original light on major issues of Wagner’s works and on opera as genre.The book trawls extensively in two research fields. It looks to the established Wagner literature for understandings of the musical procedures which map his works onto the prose fiction, while reading Wagner’s operas against the backdrop of the European novel, rather than against German Romantic fiction. It revisits Adorno’s music sociology and his seminal study of Wagner, but repositions many elements of his argument. Unusually, this book adopts a critical stance to Nietzsche’s view of Wagner. In marked contrast to Nietzsche, the study regards parallels between Wagner and Flaubert as an enrichment of our understanding of Wagner’s achievement.The book concludes with a major question of European cultural history: why it is that – in common with Italy, but in marked contrast to France or England – Germany’s most representative works in the nineteenth century are operas rather than novels.

Автор: Shadle, Douglas W.
Название: Antonin Dvorak`s New World Symphony
ISBN: 0190645628 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190645625
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Before Anton�n Dvor�k's New World Symphony became one of the most universally beloved pieces of classical music, it exposed the deep wounds of racism at the dawn of the Jim Crow era while serving as a flashpoint in broader debates about the American ideals of freedom and equality. Drawing from
a diverse array of historical voices, author Douglas W. Shadle's richly textured account of the symphony's 1893 premiere shows that even the classical concert hall could not remain insulated from the country's racial politics.

Автор: Senici Emanuele
Название: Music in the Present Tense: Rossini`s Italian Operas in Their Time
ISBN: 022666354X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226663548
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Emanuele Senici`s new book provides a fresh look at the motives behind the Rossinian furore and its aftermath by placing his works into the culture and society in which they were conceived, performed, seen, heard, and discussed.

Автор: Woodfield Ian
Название: Cabals and Satires: Mozart`s Comic Operas in Vienna
ISBN: 0190692634 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190692636
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: When Joseph II placed his opera buffa troupe in competition with the re-formed Singspiel, he provoked an intense struggle between supporters of the rival national genres, who organized claques to cheer or hiss at performances, and encouraged press correspondents to write slanted notices. It
was in this fraught atmosphere that Mozart collaborated with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte on his three mature Italian comedies--Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosм fan tutte.

In Cabals and Satires: Mozart's Comic Operas in Vienna, Ian Woodfield brings the fascinating dynamics of this inter-troupe contest into focus. He reveals how Mozart, while not immune from the infighting, was able to weather satirical attacks, successfully negotiate the unpredictable twists and turns
of theatre politics during the lean years of the Austro-Turkish War, and seal his reputation with a revival of Figaro in 1789 as a Habsburg festive work. Mozart's deft navigation of the turbulent political waters of this period left him well placed to benefit from the revival of the commercial stage
in Vienna--the most enduring musical consequence of the war years.

Автор: Link, Nathan (is H.W. Stodghill, Jr. and Adele H. Stodghill Professor of Music, is H.W. Stodghill, Jr. and Adele H. Stodghill Professor of Music, Centre College)
Название: Poetics of Handel`s Operas
ISBN: 0197651348 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780197651346
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: A Poetics of Handel`s Operas explores the concurrence between the narratives of Handelian operas and how these stories are represented through actions, words, and music. Nathan Link offers a new approach for interpreting and constructing the stories of Handel`s operas while highlighting the representational fabric by which they are conveyed to the viewer.