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Taylor & Francis Grtrys Operas and the French Public From the Old Regime to the Restoration
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Taylor & Francis Verdiïs Exceptional Women Giuseppina Strepponi and Teresa Stolz
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Operas Second Death
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Book SynopsisOpera''s Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, as well as our own desires to die and to go to the opera.Trade Review"...provides many new and remarkable conclusions from a contemporary, Eastern European point of viewthat will interest opera specialists and cultural historians." -- A.M. Hanson, Ihoice"...an engaging and frequently illuminating commentary on the impulses, desires and fantasies that enrich both our own lives and those of the colorful characters that populate our favorite operas." -- Barry Millington, BBCMusic Magazine DirectTable of ContentsIntroduction: For the Love of the Opera 1. Philosophy in the Opera Mladen Dolar 1.1 The Birth of Opera from the Spirit of Absolutism 1.2 Acheronta movebo 1.3 The Logic of Mercy 1.4 Opera buffa 1.5 Syntax 1.6 Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail 1.7 Figaro 1.8 Don Giovanni 1.9 The Opera in Philosophy: Mozart and Kierkegaard 1.10 La femme-machine 1.11 Machine in Love 1.12 A Philosopher in the Opera 1.13 Machine and Enjoyment 1.14 The Rationalistic Myth of the Enlightenment 1.15 He is a Man - Even More, He is a Prince 1.16 Three Continuations 2. I Do Not Order My Dreams Slavoj Zizek 2.1 Death Drive and the Wagnerian Sublime - The Forced Choice - The Disavowal Deeper than the day could read The 'What-Ifs' - Tristan's Journey to the Bottom of the Night - Transgression? No, thanks! - Wagner's Sexualized Politics - The Moebius Band 2.2 The Everlasting Irony of the Community Wagner with Kierkegaard - Kundry's Laughter . - . and her Kiss - The Feminine versus Woman 2.3 Interlude: The Feminine Excess 2.4 Run, Isolde, Run The Cyberspace Tristan - The Morning After - It quacks, hoots, pants, and gasps - The Separated Flames - No More Running Notes Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Gioachino Rossini
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gaetano Donizetti A Research and Information Guide Routledge Music Bibliographies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Michael William Balfe His Life and His English Operas Music in NineteenthCentury Britain
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Opera after 1900 The Ashgate Library of Essays in Opera Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd National Traditions in NineteenthCentury Opera
Book SynopsisThis volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). The book is divided into four sections that are thematically, rather than geographically, conceived: Places-essays centering on contexts for operatic culture; Genres and Styles-studies dealing with the question of how operas in this period were put together; Critical Studies of individual works, exemplifying particular critical trends; and Performance.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Contexts: Some difficulties in the historiography of Italian opera, Fabrizio Della Seta; Metaphors for Meyerbeer, Cormac Newark; Italian romanticism and Italian opera: an essay in their affinities, Gary Tomlinson; Verismo: origin, corruption and redemption of an operatic term, Andreas Giger; Felice Romani, librettist by trade, Alessandro Roccatagliati; Frederick Gye and 'the dreadful business of opera management', Gabriella Dideriksen and Matthew Ringel; Opera audiences in Paris 1830-1870, Steven Huebner; Verdian opera burlesqued: a glimpse into mid-Victorian theatrical culture, Roberta Montemorra Marvin. Part II Composition and Analysis: History and works that have no history: reviving Rossini's Neapolitan operas, Philip Gossett; 'La solita forma and 'the uses of convention"', Harold S. Powers; A key for chi? Tonal areas in Puccini, Roger Parker and Allan W. Atlas; 'Tristan' in the composition of 'Pelléas', Carolyn Abbate. Part III Criticism: 'Dormez donc, mes chers amours': Hérold's La Somnambule (1827) and dream phenomena on the Parisian lyric stage, Sarah Hibberd; 'TB sheets': love and disease in La Traviata, Arthur Groos; Masked balls, Ralph Hexter; Return of the repressed: the prima donna from Hoffmann's Tales to Offenbach's Contes, Heather Hadlock; Smyth the anarchist: fin-de-siècle radicalism in The Wreckers, Suzanne B. Robinson. Part IV Performance: Knowing the score: Italian opera as work and play, Philip Gossett; Ornamenting Verdi's arias: the continuity of a tradition, David Lawton; 'La cantate delle passioni:' Giuditta Pasta and the idea of operatic performance, Susan B. Rutherford; The sea and the stars and the wastes of the desert, Roger Parker; Name Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Essays on Opera 17501800
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Taylor & Francis Ltd National Traditions in NineteenthCentury Opera Volume II
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Taylor & Francis EighteenthCentury Russian Music
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Taylor & Francis Operatic Migrations
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Taylor & Francis Harrison Birtwistle The Mask of Orpheus Landmarks in Music Since 1950
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Jonathan Harvey Song Offerings and White as Jasmine Landmarks in Music Since 1950
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Taylor & Francis An Introduction to the Dramatic Works of Giacomo Meyerbeer Operas Ballets Cantatas Plays
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Taylor & Francis Ltd TwentiethCentury British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Robert Saxton Caritas Landmarks in Music Since 1950
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Modernism and the Cult of Mountains
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Opera Indigene Representing First Nations and Indigenous Cultures Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
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Taylor & Francis Between Opera and Cinema Critical and Cultural Musicology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Giacomo Meyerbeer and Music Drama in NineteenthCentury Paris Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Song of the Soul Understanding Poppea 5 Royal Musical Association Monographs
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Impresarios Ten Commandments Continental Recruitment for Italian Opera in London 176364 Royal Musical Association Monographs
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Children Childhood and Musical Theater
Book SynopsisBringing together scholars from musicology, literature, childhood studies, and theater, this volume examines the ways in which children''s musicals tap into adult nostalgia for childhood while appealing to the needs and consumer potential of the child. The contributors take up a wide range of musicals, including works inspired by the books of children''s authors such as Roald Dahl, P.L. Travers, and Francis Hodgson Burnett; created by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lionel Bart, and other leading lights of musical theater; or conceived for a cast made up entirely of children. The collection examines musicals that propagate or complicate normative attitudes regarding what childhood is or should be. It also considers the child performer in movie musicals as well as in professional and amateur stage musicals. This far-ranging collection highlights the special place that musical theater occupies in the imaginations and lives of children as well as adults. The collection comes at a time of incrTable of Contents1. Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater: an IntroductionJames Leve and Donelle Ruwe 2. Beginning with Do Re Mi: Childhood and The Sound of Music Ryan Bunch 3. Walt Disney, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and the Gospel of Ideal Childrearing: Creating Superlative Nuclear Families in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks William A. Everett 4. Saving Mr. [Blank]: Rescuing the Father through Song in Children’s and Family Musicals Raymond Knapp 5. Dickensian Discourses: Giving a (Singing) Voice to the Child-Hero in Oliver! and Copperfield Marc Napolitano 6. Ghetto Chic: Utopianism and the Authentic Child in The Me Nobody Knows (1970) Donelle Ruwe 7. Little Girls, Big Voices: Annie James Leve8. Urchins, Unite: Newsies as an Antidote to Annie Marah Gubar 9. Agency, Power, and the Inner Child: The "Revolting Children" of Matilda the Musical Helen Freshwater 10. Children’s Musicals for Educational and Community Settings Lauren Acton 11. Broadway Junior Stacy Wolf Bibliography of Scholarly Sources
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Music Books and Theatre in EighteenthCentury
Book SynopsisThis book establishes the cultural background to the productions of Milton's Comus that were staged in the 1740s by Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough, at Exton Hall, his country seat in the East Midlands of England. The author reveals that Handel's visit in 1745 occurred in a richer and fuller context of cultural interests among the Noel family. Most of the music at Exton was selected from existing works by Handel, but the four movements of the finale were new, written by the composer specifically for the occasion. The study is based on receipted bills and other documents in an archival collection of Noel family papers that provide evidence of the Earl's purchase of books and music and of the musical and theatrical activities undertaken on his Exton estate. The author discusses the Earl's interests in music, books and theatre, indicating a belief in performance as a valuable and enjoyable experience and as a vehicle for the education of the yoTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The 4th Earl of Gainsborough 2. Evidence from the Archives 3. Gainsborough’s Legacy Appendix I: Subscriptions and Dedications Appendix II: Documents on Music, Books and Theatre
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Taylor & Francis Victorian Vocalists
Book SynopsisVictorian Vocalists is a masterful and entertaining collection of 100 biographies of mid- to late-19th-century singers and stars. Kurt GÃnzl paints a vivid picture of the Victorian operatic and concert world, revealing the backgrounds, journeys, successes, failures and misdemeanours of these singers. This volume is not only an outstanding reference work for anyone interested in vocalists of the era, but also a compelling, meticulously researched picture of life in the vast shark tank that was Victorian music.Table of ContentsADINI AGNESI ALBERTINI AMADEI AMBRE BAUERMEISTER BELLETTI BELOCCA BERRY GREENING BETTS BIRCH BRIGNOLI BRUCE BYRON CAMPOBELLO, E CANDIDUS CARADORI CARADORI ALLAN CASTLE CHIOMI CIAMPI CONDELL CSILLAG DE BEGNIS DELCY DI MURSKA DORUS GRAS DURAND, M ESCOTT FARQUHARSON FAVANTI FEDOR FIORENTINI FRAZER FRIEDLÄNDER GAVEAUX GORDOSA GOULD GREENFIELD GUILMETTE HALL HARRIS HIRLEMANN HÖLZEL HORTON-REED JONES, MRS C KENNETH LANCIA LAURENCE LIEBHART LOCKEY LYALL MASCALL MAYBRICK MENGIS MESSENT MIRAN MONBELLI NAU NIKITA NOUVER OSGOOD PACKARD PALMIERI PARRY PATON PAUL PEARCE, E PENCO PHILLIPS PICCOLOMINI PISCHEK POOLE, MISS PYNE ROBINSON ROUSBEY RUBINI RUDERSDORFF SAPIO SAROLTA SCOVEL SESSI SHAW, MRS SHIRREFF SINICO STAUDIGL SUSINI SUTTON THALBERG THOMAS, LEWIS TONNELLIER TORRIANI TREMAINE TURNER URIO VANERI VINNING VITELLI WHITWORTH YORKE
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Musicality in Theatre
Book SynopsisAs the complicated relationship between music and theatre has evolved and changed in the modern and postmodern periods, music has continued to be immensely influential in key developments of theatrical practices. In this study of musicality in the theatre, David Roesner offers a revised view of the nature of the relationship. The new perspective results from two shifts in focus: on the one hand, Roesner concentrates in particular on theatre-making - that is the creation processes of theatre - and on the other, he traces a notion of musicality' in the historical and contemporary discourses as driver of theatrical innovation and aesthetic dispositif, focusing on musical qualities, metaphors and principles derived from a wide range of genres.Roesner looks in particular at the ways in which those who attempted to experiment with, advance or even revolutionize theatre often sought to use and integrate a sense of musicality in training and directing processes and in performances. HTrade Review‘This is the first book to chart the history of the musicalization of theatre comprehensively in relation to writers, directors, scenographers, and performers, and it does so with great clarity and authority. … this book will secure a lasting place not only as a stimulating counter-history of twentieth-century theatre, but also as provocation to rethink the ontology of theatre itself, and the meaning of musicality.’Music and Letters‘Musicality in Theatre will serve as an important source for future studies in musical-theatrical intermediality…’Contemporary Theatre ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: premises and promises; Appia - musicality and the ‘inner essence’; Meyerhold - theatre ‘organized according to the music’s laws; Artaud - the musicality of sound, voice and noise; Writing with your ears - the musicality of playwriting; Theatre and jazz; The eclectic musicality of now; Conclusion: paradoxes of musicality; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Modernism and the Cult of Mountains Music Opera Cinema
Book SynopsisAdopting and transforming the Romantic fascination with mountains, modernism in the German-speaking lands claimed the Alps as a space both of resistance and of escape. This new ''cult of mountains'' reacted to the symptoms and alienating forces associated with modern culture, defining and reinforcing models of subjectivity based on renewed wholeness and an aggressive attitude to physical and mental health. The arts were critical to this project, none more so than music, which occupied a similar space in Austro-German culture: autonomous, pure, sublime. In Modernism and the Cult of Mountains opera serves as a nexus, shedding light on the circulation of contesting ideas about politics, nature, technology and aesthetics. Morris investigates operatic representations of the high mountains in German modernism, showing how the liminal quality of the landscape forms the backdrop for opera''s reflexive engagement with the identity and limits of its constituent media, not least music. This opeTrade Review'Christopher Morris takes the cult of mountains as an unusual and fascinating point of view from which to consider anew some of the creative tensions at the core of German modernism, including such hotly debated themes as the place of the aesthetic in modernist thought and the role of music in early-twentieth-century German culture. This original and exciting book will interest not only musicologists, but also film scholars, cultural historians, and anyone interested in the relationship between art, culture and society.' Emanuele Senici, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy 'With Modernism and the cult of mountains, Christopher Morris provides a most interesting contribution both to the lively field of opera studies and to the investigation of German modernism.' Die TheaterforschungTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 Across the Abyss: Tiefland on Stage; Chapter 2 Nature and Nostalgia: The Last Tone Poem; Chapter 3 Thoroughly Modern Mountains; Chapter 4 The Voice of the Glacier; Chapter 5 A Last Refuge: Tiefland on Screen; Chapter 6 Conclusion and Afterword;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Recomposing the Past Representations of Early
Book SynopsisRecomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but important ways in which we engage with the past in modern times. Contributors examine how media on stage and screen uses music, and in particular early music, to evoke and recompose a distant past. Culture, popular and otherwise, is awash with a stylise - sometimes contradictory - musical history. And yet for all its complexities, these representations of the past through music are integral to how our contemporary and collective imaginations understand history. More importantly, they offer a valuable insight into how we understand our musical present. Such representative strategies, the book argues, cross generic boundaries, and as such it brings together a range of multimedia discussion on the subjects of film (Lord of the Rings, Dangerous Liasions), television (Game of Thrones, The Borgias), videogame (Dragon Warrior, Gauntlet), and opera (Written on Skin, TavernerTable of ContentsIntroduction: Understanding the Present through the Past; the Past through the Present James Cook, Alexander Kolassa, and Adam Whittaker Part 1: Authenticity, Appropriateness, and Recomposing the Past Chapter 1: Representing Renaissance Rome: Beyond Anachronism in Showtimes The Borgias (2011) James Cook Chapter 2: Baroque à la Hitchcock: The Music of Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Mervyn Cooke Chapter 3: ‘Frame not my Lute’: The Musical Tudor Court on the Big Screen Daniela Fountain Chapter 4: It Ain’t Over ‘til King Arthur Sings: English Dramatick Opera on the Modern Stage Katherina Lindekens Part 2: Music, Space, and Place: Geography as History Chapter 5: Musical Divisions of the Sacred and Secular in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' Adam Whittaker Chapter 6: Celtic Music and Hollywood Cinema: Representation, Stereotype, and Affect Simon Nugent Chapter 7: David Munrow’s ‘Turkish Nightclub Piece’ Edward Breen Chapter 8: Little Harmonic Labyrinths: Baroque Musical Style on the Nintendo Entertainment System William Gibbons Part 3: Presentness and the Past: Dialogues between Old and New Chapter 9: Presentness and the Past in Contemporary British Opera Alexander Kolassa Chapter 10: Angels in the Archive: Animating the Past in 'Written on Skin' Maria Ryan Chapter 11: Werner Herzog and the Filmic Dark Arts: Myth, Truth, Music, and the Life of Carlo Gesualdo (1566–1613) Philip Weller Chapter 12: Medievalism, Music, and Agency in The Wicker Man (1973) Lisa Colton Chapter 13: Music in Fantasy Pasts: Neomedievalism and 'Game of Thrones' James Cook, Alexander Kolassa, and Adam Whittaker
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performing Salome Revealing Stories
Book SynopsisWith its first public live performance in Paris on 11 February 1896, Oscar Wilde''s Salomé took on female embodied form that signalled the start of ''her'' phenomenal journey through the history of the arts in the twentieth century. This volume explores Salome''s appropriation and reincarnation across the arts - not just Wilde''s heroine, nor Richard Strauss''s - but Salome as a cultural icon in fin-de-siècle society, whose appeal for ever new interpretations of the biblical story still endures today. Using Salome as a common starting point, each chapter suggests new ways in which performing bodies reveal alternative stories, narratives and perspectives and offer a range and breadth of source material and theoretical approaches. The first chapter draws on the field of comparative literature to investigate the inter-artistic interpretations of Salome in a period that straddles the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the Modernist era. This chapter sets the tone for theTrade Review'This book has the potential for a wide readership including academics and students as well as those interested in opera and ballet settings of plays. It offers a sociocultural and historic rereading of a seminal literary, musical, operatic, balletic, cinematic work that has changed the direction of the theater and theatrical works for film. It is successful in revealing how "corporeal performing bodies reveal alternative stories, narratives, perspectives".'NotesTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: performing Salome, revealing stories, Clair Rowden; Decadent senses: the dissemination of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé across the arts, Polina Dimova; Visions of Salome, visions of Wilde: critical readings of Oscar Wilde’s Salome in early 20th-century Vienna, Sandra Mayer; Whose/who’s Salome? Natalia Trouhanowa, a dancing diva, Clair Rowden; Salome’s slow dance with the Lord Chamberlain, London 1909-10, Anne Sivuoja-Kauppala; Seven veils, seven rooms, four walls and countless contexts, Hedda Høgåsen-Hallesby; The dirt on Salome, Caryl Clark; Outrageous Salome: grace and fury in Carmelo Bene’s Salomè and Ken Russell’s Salome’s Last Dance, Tristan Grünberg; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Opera Buffa in Mozarts Vienna Cambridge Studies in Opera
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Cambridge University Press Opera and Drama in 18C London The Kings Theatre Garrick and the Business of Performance Cambridge Studies in Opera
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