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A history of opera in Portugal from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the inauguration of the Teatro de S. Carlos in 1793.
Author : Manuel Carlos de Brito
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521036436
A history of opera in Portugal from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the inauguration of the Teatro de S. Carlos in 1793.
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 1986
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Author : John Dowling
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File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 1990
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Author : Manuel Carlos de Brito
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Page : 254 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 1989
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Author : Anthony R. DelDonna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139828177
Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source. Viewing opera as a complex and fascinating form of art and social ritual, rather than reducing it simply to music and text analysis, individual essays investigate aspects such as audiences, architecture of the theaters, marketing, acting style, and the politics and strategy of representing class and gender. Overall, the volume provides a synthesis of well established knowledge, reflects recent research on eighteenth-century opera, and stimulates further research. The reader is encouraged to view opera as a cultural phenomenon that can reveal aspects of our culture, both past and present. Eighteenth-century opera is experiencing continuing critical and popular success through innovative and provoking productions world-wide, and this Companion will appeal to opera goers as well as to students and teachers of this key topic.
Author : David Wyn Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 25,20 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351557416
This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field looks at various aspects of musical life in eighteenth-century Britain. The significant roles played by institutions such as the Freemasons and foreign embassy chapels in promoting music making and introducing foreign styles to English music are examined, as well as the influence exerted by individuals, both foreign and British. The book covers the spectrum of British music, both sacred and secular, and both cosmopolitan and provincial. In doing so it helps to redress the picture of eighteenth-century British music which has previously portrayed Handel and London as its primary constituents.
Author : Anthony R. DelDonna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521873584
The perfect accompaniment to courses on eighteenth-century opera for both students and teachers, this Companion is a definitive reference resource.
Author : Malcolm Boyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521481397
Traditional musicology has tended to see the Spanish eighteenth century as a period of decline, but this 1998 volume shows it to be rich in interest and achievement. Covering stage genres, orchestral and instrumental music and vocal music (both sacred and secular), it brings together the results of research on such topics as opera, musical instruments, the secular cantata and the villancico and challenges received ideas about how Italian and Austrian music of the period influenced (or was opposed by) Spanish composers and theorists. Two final chapters outline the presence of Spanish musical sources in the New World.
Author : Donald Jay Grout
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 1049 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Opera
ISBN : 0231119585
"The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day."--Jacket.
Author : Charles Dill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351555723
Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work. Recent research on this period has been especially fruitful, showing renewed interest in how opera operated within its local cultures, what audience members felt was at stake in opera performances, who the people-composers and performers-were who made opera possible. The essays for this volume capture the principal themes of current research: the "idea" of opera, opera criticism, the people of opera, and the emerging technologies of opera.