D'une scène à l'autre, l'opéra italien en Europe: La musique à l'épreuve du théâtre


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L'opéra italien n'a cessé de s'enrichir au contact de la littérature française. Les échanges entre ces deux genres se caractérisent par le double jeu de proximité et de distance qui existe entre eux. La recherche en dramaturgie musicale éclaire les questions auxquelles sont confrontés traducteurs, librettistes et compositeurs dans leur travail de réécriture pour la scène lyrique italienne.




The Melodramatic Moment


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We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look—from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein’s creation, and from Louise Brooks’s exaggerated acting in Pandora’s Box to the vicissitudes endlessly reshaping the life of a brooding Don Draper. This anthology proposes to address the sometimes bewilderingly broad understandings of melodrama by insisting on the historical specificity of its genesis on the stage in late-eighteenth-century Europe. Melodrama emerged during this time in the metropolitan centers of London, Paris, Vienna, and Berlin through stage adaptations of classical subjects and gothic novels, and they became famous for their use of passionate expression and spectacular scenery. Yet, as contributors to this volume emphasize, early melodramas also placed sound at center stage, through their distinctive—and often disconcerting—alternations between speech and music. This book draws out the melo of melodrama, showing the crucial dimensions of sound and music for a genre that permeates our dramatic, literary, and cinematic sensibilities today. A richly interdisciplinary anthology, The Melodramatic Moment will open up new dialogues between musicology and literary and theater studies.




Laughter Between Two Revolutions


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Tells the forgotten story of post-Rossinian opera buffa, with attention to masterpieces by Donizetti and fascinating comic works by Luigi Ricci, the young Verdi, and other composers. This study represents the first substantial assessment of Italian comic operas composed during the central years of the Risorgimento -- the period during which upheavals, revolutions, and wars ultimately led to the liberation andunification of Italy. Music historians often view the period as one during which serious Romantic opera flourished in Italy while opera buffa inexorably declined. Laughter between Two Revolutions revises this widespread notion by viewing well-known comic masterpieces -- such as Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore (1832) and Don Pasquale (1843) -- as part of a still-thriving tradition. Also examined are opere buffe by LuigiRicci, Lauro Rossi, Verdi (Un giorno di regno), and others, many of which circulated widely at the time. Francesco Izzo's pathbreaking study argues that in the "realm of seriousness" of mid-nineteenth-century Italy, comedywas not an anachronistic intruder, but a significant and vital cultural presence. This important volume offers new insights into opera history and theories of comedy in the arts. It will be of interest to opera lovers everywhere and to students in music, philosophy, comparative literature, and Italian cultural studies. Francesco Izzo is senior lecturer in music at the University of Southampton.




Europäische Musiker in Venedig, Rom und Neapel 1650-1750


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Der Abschlussband des deutsch-französischen ANR-DFG-Projekts MUSICI widmet sich der Musikermigration im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit mit einem kultur- und musikgeschichtlichen Blick auf Venedig, Rom und Neapel als Reiseziele und Wirkungsorte von Instrumentalisten, Sängern, Komponisten und Instrumentenbauern, die nicht von der italienischen Halbinsel stammten. Im Sinne einer "histoire croisée" werden Netzwerke, Integrations- und Austauschprozesse aufgedeckt, mit denen fremde Musiker zwischen musikalischem Alltag und herausragenden Festlichkeiten konfrontiert waren. Auf dieser Grundlage wird eine systematische Betrachtung der frühneuzeitlichen Musikermigration sowie eine Untersuchung musikalischer Stile jenseits nationaler Forschungstraditionen möglich.




Musical Debate and Political Culture in France, 1700-1830


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The first full-length treatment of the operatic querelles in eighteenth-century France, placing individual querelles in historical context and tracing common themes of authority, national prestige and the power of music over popular sentiment.




D'une scène à l'autre, l'opéra italien en Europe: Les pérégrinations d'un genre


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Dès sa naissance au XVIIe siècle, l'opéra italien se répand sur tout le continent grâce à un réseau de production internationale, forgeant l'identité du genre lyrique qui devint un patrimoine artistique commun, cultivé par des générations de compositeurs aux origines et formations différentes. Les contributions réunies ici étudient ce patrimoine cuturel européen.







Safety and environmental issues in rock engineering, volume 2


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State-of-the-art in science; engineering aspects of rock mechanics in the areas of safety ; environmental protection. Discusses various aspects concerning modelling in safety analysis, stability of underground structures, and the contribution of incident and accident cases to the progress of rock engineering activities. The influence of the environment is also considered, namely in heat ; mass transport, contaminant migration, and underground storage of waste; products.




Hommages à Maarten J. Vermaseren, Volume 2


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Preliminary material /Margreet de Boer and T. A. Edridge -- SARAPIACA I /WILHELM HORNBOSTEL -- A NEW INTERPRETATION OF THE BULL-SLAYING MOTIF /S. INSLER -- ISIS OU LA TYCHÉ D'ALEXANDRIE ? /MARIE-ODILE JENTEL -- LA GRENOUILLE D'ÉTERNITÉ DES PAYS DU NIL AU MONDE MÉDITERRANÉEN /JEAN LECLANT -- UN «PIED DE SARAPIS» À TIMGAD, EN NUMIDIE /MARCEL LE GLAY -- EIN GNOMON AUS EINEM SÜDWEST-DEUTSCHEN MITHRÄUM /WOLFGANG LENTZ and WOLFHARD SCHLOSSER -- STRABO AND THE MEMPHITE TAUROMACHY /ALAN B. LLOYD -- DOCUMENTS NOUVEAUX ET POINTS DE VUE RÉCENTS SUR LES CULTES ISIAQUES EN ITALIE /MICHEL MALAISE -- LES CULTES ORIENTAUX À MICIA (DACIA SVPERIOR) /LIVIU MĂRGHITAN and CONSTANTIN C. PETOLESCU -- LE CULTE DE CYBÈLE DANS LA LIBURNIE ANTIQUE /JULIJAN MEDINI -- VERTRAG UND OPFER IN DER RELIGION DES MITHRAS /R. MERKELBACH -- AGDISTIS OU L'ANDROGYNIE MALSÉANTE /MICHEL MESLIN -- LE DIED SOI-DISANT ANONYME À PALMYRE /ROBERT DU MESNIL DU BUISSON -- UN MONUMENT ÉNIGMATIQUE «DUSARI SACRUM» A POUZZOLES /PAUL G. P. MEYBOOM -- THE CULT OF ORIENTAL DIVINITIES IN CYPRUS: Archaic to Graeco-Roman Times /INO MICHAELIDOU-NICOLAOU -- MARKS, NAMES AND NUMBERS: Further Observations on Solar Symbolism and Ancient Numerology /WALTER O. MOELLER -- SOME NOTES ON THE NAME OF SARAPIS /GERARD MUSSIES -- GEMMES, BAGUES ET AMULETTES MAGIQUES DU SUD DE L'URSS /O. YA. NÉVÉROV -- ORIENTAL DIVINITIES REPRESENTED ON THE CLAY SEALINGS OF PAPHOS, CYPRUS /K. NICOLAOU -- MITHRAIC LADDER SYMBOLS AND THE FRIEDBERG CRATER /HIDEO OGAWA -- ÉLÉMENTS POUR UNE ANALYSE DE PRIAPE CHEZ JUSTIN LE GNOSTIQUE /MAURICE OLENDER -- BETRACHTUNGEN ZUM KULT DES THRAKISCHEN REITERS AUF DEM TERRITORIUM DER VR BULGARIEN /M. OPPERMANN -- MONUMENTS RELATIFS AUX CULTES ÉGYPTIENS À L'ÉPOQUE ROMAINE DU MUSÉE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE DE BARCELONE /J. PADRÓ I PARCERISA and E. SANMARTf-GREGO -- LE CULTE MÉTROAQUE CHEZ LES ALLOBROGES /ANDRÉ PELLETIER -- THE NYMPHS AT POSEIDON'S SANCTUARY /JEANNE MARTY PEPPERS -- NEUE JUPITER-DOLICHENUS WEIHUNGEN AUS VIRUNUM /GERNOT PICCOTTINI -- LISTE DES PLANCHES /WILHELM HORNBOSTEL -- PLANCHES /Margreet de Boer and T. A. Edridge.