Author : Emanuele Senici
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 20,3 MB
Release : 2004-04-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521001953
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Author : David Charlton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2003-09-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139825895
This 2003 Companion is a fascinating and accessible exploration of the world of grand opera. Through this volume a team of scholars and writers on opera examine those important Romantic operas which embraced the Shakespearean sweep of tragedy, history, love in time of conflict, and the struggle for national self-determination. Rival nations, rival religions and violent resolutions are common elements, with various social or political groups represented in the form of operatic choruses. The book traces the origins and development of a style created during an increasingly technical age, which exploited the world-renowned skills of Parisian stage-designers, artists, and dancers as well as singers. It analyses in detail the grand operas by Rossini, Auber, Meyerbeer and Halévy, discusses grand opera in Russia and Germany, and also in the Czech lands, Italy, Britain and the Americas. The volume also includes an essay by the renowned opera director David Pountney.
Author : Bruce Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Education
ISBN : 1107086205
This book gathers diverse critical treatments from fifteen scholars of the posthuman and posthumanism together in a single volume.
Author : Kenneth Hamilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 20,41 MB
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139825755
This Companion provides an up-to-date view of the music of Franz Liszt, its contemporary context and performance practice, written by some of the leading specialists in the field of nineteenth-century music studies. Although a core of Liszt's piano music has always maintained a firm hold on the repertoire, his output was so vast, influential and multi-faceted that scholarship too has taken some time to assimilate his achievement. This book offers students and music lovers some of the latest views in an accessible form. Katharine Ellis, Alexander Rehding and James Deaville present the biographical and intellectual aspects of Liszt's legacy, Kenneth Hamilton, James Baker and Anna Celenza give a detailed account of Liszt's piano music - including approaches to performance - Monika Hennemann discusses Liszt's Lieder, and Reeves Shulstad and Dolores Pesce survey his orchestral and choral music.
Author : Steven Vande Moortele
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107163196
The first comprehensive study of musical form in operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850.
Author : Nancy November
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108529860
This Companion provides orientation for those embarking on the study of Beethoven's much-discussed Eroica Symphony, as well as providing fresh insights that will appeal to scholars, performers and listeners more generally. The book addresses the symphony in three thematic sections, on genesis, analysis and reception history, and covers key topics including political context, dedication, sources of the Symphony's inspiration, 'heroism' and the idea of a 'watershed' work. Critical studies of writings and analyses from Beethoven's day to ours are included, as well as a range of other relevant responses to the work, including compositions, recordings, images and film. The Companion draws on previous literature but also illuminates the work from new angles, based on new evidence and a range of approaches by twelve leading scholars in Beethoven research.
Author : Bruce Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136950427
With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into three main sections, this volume: links diverse literatures to scientific disciplines from Artificial Intelligence to Thermodynamics surveys current theoretical and disciplinary approaches from Animal Studies to Semiotics traces the history and culture of literature and science from Greece and Rome to Postmodernism. Ranging from classical origins and modern revolutions to current developments in cultural science studies and the posthumanities, this indispensible volume offers a comprehensive resource for undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers. With authoritative, accessible, and succinct treatments of the sciences in their literary dimensions and cultural frameworks, here is the essential guide to this vibrant area of study.
Author : David Hillman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 14,90 MB
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107048095
This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the body in literature, from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Author : Nicholas Mathew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521768055
Leading scholars re-evaluate the opposition between Beethoven and Rossini, the great symbolic duo of early nineteenth-century music.
Author : Emanuele Senici
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 32,50 MB
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521834377
An unusual look at Italian opera in the nineteenth century.
