A Poetics Of Handels Operas

Author : Nathan Link
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197651348
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Poetics of Handel's Operas written by Nathan Link and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Poetics of Handel's Operas investigates the rich representational fabric of Handel's stories, drawing upon musicology, narratology, drama, and film in offering a study with appeal to scholars, producers and performers, opera afficionados, and anyone fascinated by storytelling. In most storytelling genres, we often distinguish between the story, on the one hand, and the way that story is represented, on the other, without a second thought. We know that a character in a film hears neither her own voice-over nor the ambient music that accompanies it, and that she does not really build a house from the ground up in the three minutes spanned by the cinematic montage that depict its construction. In opera, however, many commentators to this day characterize the medium as "unrealistic," since we know, for example, that people in the real world do not sing to each other, nor does orchestral music accompany their utterances. This said, the vocal and orchestral music, while not literally present in the world of the story surely have a great deal to tell us about the opera's story and its characters, and if we distinguish the performance we see and hear on the stage and in the orchestra pit from the story represented, we enable ourselves to construct stories that are no less coherent than those conveyed by other media. By avoiding conflation of the story and its representation, we enable ourselves to engage more meaningfully with the significance of these and many other unique aspects of operatic storytelling"--

Author : Nathan Link
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197651364
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Poetics of Handel's Operas written by Nathan Link and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should we consider when thinking about the relationship between an onstage performance and the story the performance tells? A Poetics of Handel's Operas explores this question by analyzing the narratives of Handel's operas in relation to the rich representational fabric of performance used to convey them. Nathan Link notes that in most storytelling genres, the audience can naturally discern between a story and the way that story is represented: with film, for example, the viewer would recognize that a character hears neither her own voiceover nor the ambient music that accompanies it, whereas in discussions of opera, some audiences may be distracted by the seemingly artificial nature of such conventions as characters singing their dialogue. Link proposes that when engaging with opera, distinguishing between the performance we see and hear on the stage and the story represented offers a meaningful approach to engaging with and interpreting the work. Handel's operas are today the most-performed works in the Baroque opera seria tradition. This genre, with its intricate dramaturgy and esoteric conventions, stands to gain much from an investigation into the relationships between the onstage performance and the story to which that performance directs us. In his analysis, Link offers theoretical studies on opera and narratological theories of literature, drama, and film, providing rich engagement with Handel's work and what it conveys about the relationship between text, story, and performance.

Author : George Frideric Handel
Publisher : Garland Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Librettos of Handel's Operas written by George Frideric Handel and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hugo Anthony Meynell
Publisher : Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Handel's Operas written by Hugo Anthony Meynell and published by Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring how Handel's operas have become outstanding expressions of the opera tradition as it had developed to the late 18th century, this text contains detailed consideration of Handel's work between 1705 and 1741.

Author : Winton Dean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handel's Operas, 1704-1726 written by Winton Dean and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This volume is a monument to the source-critical method. It is a rigorous investigation of the bewilderingly abundant musical and literary sources of each opera, and its most lasting influence will be on all future editions of Handel's music.'

Author : Winton Dean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 771 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handel's Operas, 1704-1726 written by Winton Dean and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Kimbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316531163
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handel on the Stage written by David Kimbell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the great composers of the eighteenth century, Handel was the supreme cosmopolitan, an early and extraordinarily successful example of a freelance composer. For thirty years the opera-house was the principal focus of his creative work and he composed more than forty operas over this period. In this book, David Kimbell sets Handel's operas in their biographical and cultural contexts. He explores the circumstances in which they were composed and performed, the librettos that were prepared for Handel, and what they tell us about his and his audience's values and the music he composed for them. Remarkably no Handel operas were staged for a period of 170 years between 1754 and the 1920s. The final chapter in this book reveals the differences and similarities between how Handel's operas were performed in his time and ours.

Author : George Frideric Handel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Librettos of Handel's Operas written by George Frideric Handel and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handel's Operas written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Winton Dean
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handel and the Opera Seria written by Winton Dean and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: