Author : Graham Sadler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 2021-01-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781472479266
The present volume, devoted solely to the composer's operas, reflects this scholarly activity. It brings together a substantial group of essays by an international team of scholars on a wide range of aspects of Rameau's operas.
Author : Graham Sadler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 1317022297
In recent years, interest in Rameau’s operas has grown enormously. These works are no longer regarded as peripheral by performers and audiences but are increasingly staged in the world’s major opera houses and festivals, while the production of first-rate recordings on CD and DVD continues to flourish. Such welcome developments have gone hand in hand with an upsurge in research on Rameau and his period. The present volume, devoted solely to the composer’s operas, reflects this scholarly activity. It brings together a substantial group of essays by an international team of scholars on a wide range of aspects of Rameau’s operas. The individual essays are informed by a variety of disciplines or sub-disciplines including literature, archival studies, musical analysis, gender studies, ballet and choreography, dramaturgy and staging. The contents are addressed to a wide readership, including not only scholars but also practical musicians, stage directors, dancers and choreographers.
Author : Cuthbert Girdlestone
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 1969-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780486262000
Definitive, full-scale biography and critical study of great 18th-century composer. Rameau's life and times, influence on Gluck, acoustic and harmonic theories, other topics, plus full treatment of great operas and ballets. Over 300 musical examples.
Author : Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107137896
Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.
Author : Virgil Claxton Self
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 1956
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Alessandro Scarlatti
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780674640337
Opera in three acts.
Author : Ralph P. Locke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316298205
During the years 1500–1800, European performing arts reveled in a kaleidoscope of Otherness: Middle-Eastern harem women, fortune-telling Spanish 'Gypsies', Incan priests, Barbary pirates, moresca dancers, and more. In this prequel to his 2009 book Musical Exoticism, Ralph P. Locke explores how exotic locales and their inhabitants were characterized in musical genres ranging from instrumental pieces and popular songs to oratorios, ballets, and operas. Locke's study offers new insights into much-loved masterworks by composers such as Cavalli, Lully, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck, and Mozart. In these works, evocations of ethnic and cultural Otherness often mingle attraction with envy or fear, and some pieces were understood at the time as commenting on conditions in Europe itself. Locke's accessible study, which includes numerous musical examples and rare illustrations, will be of interest to anyone who is intrigued by the relationship between music and cultural history, and by the challenges of cross-cultural (mis)understanding.
Author : Timothy D. Taylor
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822339687
DIVStudy of how systems of power and domination have shaped representations of otherness in music./div
Author : Mitchell Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 20,93 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 0691211515
A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and politics, from the Renaissance through the turn of the nineteenth century. What political backdrops have shaped opera? How has opera conveyed the political ideas of its times? Delving into European history and thought and music by such greats as Monteverdi, Lully, Rameau, and Mozart, Mitchell Cohen reveals how politics—through story lines, symbols, harmonies, and musical motifs—has played an operatic role both robust and sotto voce. This is an engrossing book that will interest all who love opera and are intrigued by politics.
Author : Daniel Heartz
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781576470817
A collection of 18 essays on musical theatre in the eighteenth century, written between 1967 and 2001
