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Cambridge University Press Kurt Weill Threepenny Opera The Threepenny Opera Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Czech Opera National Traditions of Opera
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Cambridge University Press Hector Berlioz Les Troyens Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Opera in Portugal in the Eighteenth Century
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Cambridge University Press Richard Strauss Salome Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov Myths Realities Reconsiderations Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov Myths Realities Reconsiderations Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Benjamin Britten Billy Budd Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Stravinsky Oedipus Rex Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Stravinsky Oedipus Rex Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Wagners Musical Prose Texts and Contexts 3 New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism Series Number 3
Book SynopsisThis book is a study of the prose writings of Richard Wagner and their relevance to an understanding of his music and drama, as well as their relation to music criticism and aesthetics in the nineteenth century in general. As a by-product of Wagner's many-faceted career as musician, conductor, cultural critic and controversial ideologue, the writings are documents of undisputed interpretative value. This study focuses on Wagner's words on music, and interprets them in the light of the musical, aesthetic and critical contexts that generated them. Professor Grey considers Wagner's ambivalence concerning the idea of 'absolute music' and the capacity of music to project meaning or drama from within its own system of referents. Particularly relevant are Wagner's appropriation of a Beethoven legacy, the metaphors of musical 'gender' and 'biology' in Opera and Drama and the critical background to ideas of 'motive' and 'leitmotif' in theory and practice.Trade Review"...we are very fortunate to have this new study, which deals with Wagner's writings in an intelligent, authoritative, and probing manner. Thomas S. Grey seems to have read not only everything Wagner wrote but everything written about him from his own day to the present and about the principle aesthetic issues relevant to the Wagner `case.'...the scope and command of Grey's book is...magisterial." The Opera Quarterly"This is a serious study that no Wagnerian scholar should ignore." Warren Darcy, NotesTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Wagner and the problematics of 'absolute music' in the nineteenth century; 2. Beethoven reception and the hermeneutic impulse: 'poetic ideas' and new forms; 3. Engendering music drama: Opera and Drama and its metaphors; 4. The 'poetic-musical period' and the 'evolution' of Wagnerian form; 5. Endless melodies; 6. Motive and motivations: leitmotif and 'symphonic' drama; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Richard Wagner Tristan und Isolde Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Mozart Cosi Fan Tutte Cos Fan Tutte Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Richard Wagner Tristan und Isolde Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Wagner and Russia Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
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Cambridge University Press Richard Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Ludwig van Beethoven Fidelio Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Opera and the Enlightenment
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Cambridge University Press Italian Opera National Traditions of Opera
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Cambridge University Press The Life of Musorgsky Musical Lives
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Cambridge University Press Vincenzo Bellini Norma Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Verdi and the Germans From Unification to the Third Reich New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism Series Number 26
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Cambridge University Press The Nations Image
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to SeventeenthCentury Opera
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Cambridge University Press Opera Buffa in Mozarts Vienna Cambridge Studies in Opera
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Cambridge University Press Richard Wagner Der Fliegende Hollander Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Music and Theatre
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Verdi
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera Cambridge Companions to Music
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies Cambridge Companions to Music
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss Cambridge Companions to Music
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to TwentiethCentury Opera Cambridge Companions to Music
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Cambridge University Press Camb Companion 20th Century Opera Cambridge Companions to Music
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Cambridge University Press Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Rgime 16471785 Cambridge Studies in Opera
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to SeventeenthCentury Opera
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Cambridge University Press The Transvestite Achilles
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Cambridge University Press The Prima Donna and Opera 18151930 Cambridge Studies in Opera
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies Cambridge Companions to Music
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Cambridge University Press Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu Cambridge Studies in Opera
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Cambridge University Press The Music of Louis Andriessen Music in the Twentieth Century Series Number 21
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Cambridge University Press Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss Cambridge Companions to Music
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Cambridge University Press Popular Opera in EighteenthCentury France
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Cambridge University Press Madama ButterflyMadamu Batafurai
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Cambridge University Press Opera in the Viennese Home from Mozart to Rossini
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Cambridge University Press Verdi and the Germans From Unification To The Third Reich 26 New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism Series Number 26
Book SynopsisThis seminal study of Giuseppe Verdi's German-language reception provides important new perspectives on German musical culture and nationalism from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Kreuzer argues that the concept of Germany's musical supremacy, so dear to its nationalist cause, was continually challenged by the popularity of Italian opera, a genre increasingly epitomised by Verdi. The book traces the many facets of this Italian-German opposition in the context of intense historical developments from German unification in 1871 to the end of World War II and beyond. Drawing on an exceptionally broad range of sources, Kreuzer explores the construction of visual and biographical images of Verdi; the marketing, interpretation and adaptation of individual works; regional, social and religious undercurrents in German musical life; and overt political appropriations. Suppressed, manipulated and, not least, guiltily enjoyed, Verdi emerges as a powerful influence on German intellectuals' ideaTrade Review'Verdi and the Germans boldly explores new directions in the study of nationalism and music. Instead of focusing on the 'German-ness' of German composers, as has been done thus far, it looks at how Germans reacted to the most prominent non-German composer of the nineteenth century, Giuseppe Verdi. This long and fascinating story, told by Gundula Kreuzer with immense erudition and sharp insight, is well worth reading not only for musicologists, but also for cultural and social historians, as well as anybody interested in the tentacular hold of nationalism over minds, hearts and ears.' Emanuele Senici, University of Rome'Gundula Kreuzer has addressed a theme of capital importance in this book: the role of foreign cultures in creating a nation's self image. She could hardly have chosen a more appropriate reception study to interrogate this theme. In the course of her absorbing, and engagingly written, book she sheds light on Verdi and on German culture alike, and with an historical sweep which takes us to the Third Reich and beyond. Based on a careful trawl of journals and newspapers (the weight of research collapsed into her footnotes is truly impressive), Verdi and the Germans is scholarship of the very highest quality.' Jim Samson, Royal Holloway, University of London'Draws upon a wide and impressive range of documentary sources.' Opera'Kreuzer shows a courageous willingness to confront some uncomfortable truths. Her engrossing book is a vivid illustration of how music can be used in the service of politics and a warning that we ignore the significance of the arts at our peril.' Music and LettersTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction: Italian opera and German historiography; 2. Verdi's Requiem and the anxious young Kaiserreich; 3. Maestro to Meister: Verdi purified; 4. The 'Verdi renaissance'; 5. Verdi in the Third Reich; 6. Epilogue: post-war Verdi; Appendix 1. Verdi's Requiem in German-language countries, 1875–1901; Appendix 2. Successful Verdi revivals in German-language theatres, 1901–51; Select bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute
Book SynopsisSince its premiere in 1791, The Magic Flute has been staged continuously and remains, to this day, Mozart''s most-performed opera worldwide. This comprehensive, user-friendly, up-to-date critical guide considers the opera in a variety of contexts to provide a fresh look at a work that has continued to fascinate audiences from Mozart''s time to ours. It serves both as an introduction for those encountering the opera for the first time and as a treasury of recent scholarship for those who know it very well. Containing twenty-one essays by leading scholars, and drawing on recent research and commentary, this Companion presents original insights on music, dialogue, and spectacle, and offers a range of new perspectives on key issues, including the opera''s representation of exoticism, race, and gender. Organized in four sections ? historical context, musical analysis, critical approaches, and reception ? it provides an essential framework for understanding The Magic Flute and its extraordinary afterlife.Table of ContentsIntroduction Jessica Waldoff; Part I. Conception and Context: 1. German Opera in Mozart's Vienna Estelle Joubert; 2. 'The Magic Flute's' Libretto and German Enlightenment Theater Reform Martin Nedbal; 3. Emanuel Schikaneder and the Theater auf der Wieden Lisa de Alwis; 4. 'The Magic Flute' in 1791 Austin Glatthorn; Part II. Music, Text, and Action: 5. Music as Stage-Craft Julian Rushton; 6. Enduring Portraits: The Arias Laurel E. Zeiss; 7. 'All Together, Now'? Ensembles and Choruses in 'The Magic Flute' Nicholas Marston; 8. Musical Topics, Quotations, and References Mark Ferraguto; 9. Instrumentation, Magical and Mundane Emily I. Dolan and Hayley Fenn; 10. The Dialogue as Indispensable Catherine Coppola; 11. Music, Drama and Spectacle in the Finales John Platoff; III. Approaches and Perspectives: 12. Seeking Enlightenment in Mozart's 'Magic Flute' Richard Kramer; 13. Birdsong and Hieroglyphs: Exoticism and Enlightened Orientalism in 'The Magic Flute' Matthew Head; 14. Partial Derivatives: Sources, Types, and Tropes in 'The Magic Flute' Thomas Bauman; 15. Pamina, the Queen, and the Representation of Women Jessica Waldoff; 16. Blackness and Whiteness in 'The Magic Flute' – Reflections from Shakespeare Studies Adeline Mueller; IV. Reception, Interpretation, and Influence: 17. Zauberflöte: A Cultural Phenomenon in an Age of Revolution Ian Woodfield; 18. 'The Magic Flute' in Biography, Criticism, and Literature Simon P. Keefe; 19. The Elusive Compositional History of 'The Magic Flute' Daniel R. Melamed; 20. Staging 'The Magic Flute' Kate Hopkins; 21. Ingmar Bergman's Film Version of 'The Magic Flute' Dean Duncan.
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