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Télécharger le livre :  Wagner Studies
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Wagner Studies


Steven Vande Moortele


While the music of Richard Wagner has long served as a touchstone for music-theoretical and analytical models both old and new, music analysts have often been intimidated by the complexity of his works, their multi-layeredness, and their sheer unwieldiness. This volume...

Parution : 2025-04-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Naples, Capital of Dance
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Naples, Capital of Dance


Anthony R. Deldonna


Renowned as a city of entertainment, Naples was unequaled in eighteenth-century Italy for the diversity of its musical life. During the reigns of Carlo di Borbone and his heir Ferdinando IV, the sponsorship of feste di ballo, elaborate celebratory balls featuring social...

Parution : 2025-04-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Wagner in Context
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Wagner in Context


David Trippett


Few composers embodied wider cultural interests than Wagner or had greater cultural consequences. This is the first collection to examine directly the rich array of intellectual, social and cultural contexts within which Wagner worked. Alongside fresh accounts of...

Parution : 2024-03-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Puccini in Context
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Puccini in Context


Alexandra Wilson


Exploring the many dimensions of Giacomo Puccini's historical legacy and significance, this book provides new perspectives on the life and work of a much-loved opera composer and demonstrates how political concerns shape the way we approach and perform his works in the...

Parution : 2023-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Mozart's Operas and National Politics
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Mozart's Operas and National Politics


Martin Nedbal


As both an in-depth study of Mozart criticism and performance practice in Prague, and a history of how eighteenth-century opera was appropriated by later political movements and social groups, this book explores the reception of Mozart's operas in Prague between 1791...

Parution : 2023-08-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai
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Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai


Arthur Groos


Puccini's famous but controversial Madama Butterfly reflects a practice of 'temporary marriage' between Western men and Japanese women in nineteenth-century treaty ports. Groos' book identifies the plot's origin in an eye-witness account and traces its transmission via...

Parution : 2023-02-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Female Singers on the French Stage, 1830–1848
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Female Singers on the French Stage, 1830–1848


Kimberly White


The study of singers' art has emerged as a prominent area of inquiry within musicology in recent years. Female Singers on the French Stage, 1830–1848 shifts the focus from the artwork onstage to the labour that went on behind the scenes. Through extensive analysis of...

Parution : 2018-05-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Inventing the Opera House
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Inventing the Opera House


Eugene J. Johnson


In this book, Eugene J. Johnson traces the invention of the opera house, a building type of world wide importance. Italy laid the foundation theater buildings in the West, in architectural spaces invented for the commedia dell'arte in the sixteenth century, and theaters...

Parution : 2018-05-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera
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Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera


Rebecca Harris-Warrick


Since its inception, French opera has embraced dance, yet all too often operatic dancing is treated as mere decoration. Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera exposes the multiple and meaningful roles that dance has played, starting from Jean-Baptiste Lully's first...

Parution : 2016-10-27
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