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Télécharger le livre :  Opera in Postwar Venice
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Opera in Postwar Venice


Harriet Boyd-Bennett


Beginning from the unlikely vantage point of Venice in the aftermath of fascism and World War II, this book explores operatic production in the city's nascent postwar culture as a lens onto the relationship between opera and politics in the twentieth century. Both opera...

Parution : 2018-09-13
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38,16
Télécharger le livre :  Ideology in Britten's Operas
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Ideology in Britten's Operas


J. P. E. Harper-Scott


This thematic examination of Britten's operas focuses on the way that ideology is presented on stage. To watch or listen is to engage with a vivid artistic testament to the ideological world of mid-twentieth-century Britain. But it is more than that, too, because in...

Parution : 2018-09-06
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39,40
Télécharger le livre :  The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner
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The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner


Steven Vande Moortele


In this book Steven Vande Moortele offers a comprehensive account of operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850. Discussing a broad range of works by German, French, and Italian composers, it is at once an investigation of the Romantic...

Parution : 2017-04-27
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39,40
Télécharger le livre :  Technology and the Diva
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Technology and the Diva


Karen Henson


In Technology and the Diva, Karen Henson brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the neglected subject of opera and technology. Their essays focus on the operatic soprano and her relationships with technology from the heyday of Romanticism in...

Parution : 2016-09-12
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39,40
Télécharger le livre :  Handel on the Stage
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Handel on the Stage


David Kimbell


Of all the great composers of the eighteenth century, Handel was the supreme cosmopolitan, an early and extraordinarily successful example of a freelance composer. For thirty years the opera-house was the principal focus of his creative work and he composed more than...

Parution : 2016-02-11
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39,40
Télécharger le livre :  The Operas of Maurice Ravel
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The Operas of Maurice Ravel


Emily Kilpatrick


Maurice Ravel's operas L'Heure espagnole (1907/1911) and L'Enfant et les sortilèges (1919–25) are pivotal works in the composer's relatively small œuvre. Emerging from periods shaped by very distinct musical concerns and historical circumstances, these two vastly...

Parution : 2015-10-29
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39,40
Télécharger le livre :  Foreign Opera at the London Playhouses
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Foreign Opera at the London Playhouses


Christina Fuhrmann


In the early nineteenth century over forty operas by foreign composers, including Mozart, Rossini, Weber and Bellini, were adapted for London playhouses, often appearing in drastically altered form. Such changes have been denigrated as 'mutilations'. The operas were...

Parution : 2015-09-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Mozart Studies 2
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Mozart Studies 2


Simon P. Keefe


Cultural, historical and reception-related contexts are central to understanding Mozart, one of the greatest and most famous musicians of all time. Widening and refining the lens through which the composer is viewed, the essays in Mozart Studies 2 focus on themes,...

Parution : 2015-09-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes
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Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes


Thomas Peattie


In this study Thomas Peattie offers a new account of Mahler's symphonies by considering the composer's reinvention of the genre in light of his career as a conductor and more broadly in terms of his sustained engagement with the musical, theatrical, and aesthetic...

Parution : 2015-04-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Cambridge Companion to French Music
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The Cambridge Companion to French Music


Simon Trezise


France has a long and rich music history that has had a far-reaching impact upon music and cultures around the world. This accessible Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the music of France. With chapters on a range of music genres, internationally...

Parution : 2015-02-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy
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Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy


Alessandra Campana


At the turn of the twentieth century Italian opera participated to the making of a modern spectator. The Ricordi stage manuals testify to the need to harness the effects of operatic performance, activating opera's capacity to cultivate a public. This book considers how...

Parution : 2015-01-22
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39,40
Télécharger le livre :  Opera Acts
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Opera Acts


Karen Henson


Opera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case studies of four figures - the late Verdi baritone Victor Maurel; Bizet's...

Parution : 2015-01-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Cambridge Companion to the Lied
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The Cambridge Companion to the Lied


James Parsons


Beginning several generations before Schubert, the Lied first appears as domestic entertainment. In the century that follows it becomes one of the primary modes of music-making. By the time German song comes to its presumed conclusion with Richard Strauss's 1948 Vier...

Parution : 2004-07-01
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