Donizetti And The World Of Opera In Italy Paris And Vienna In The First Half Of The Nineteenth Century

Author : Herbert Weinstock
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Author : Herbert Weinstock
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Download or read book Donizetti and the World of Opera in Italy, Paris & Vienna in the First Half of the 19th Century written by Herbert Weinstock and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Everist
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100093912X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giacomo Meyerbeer and Music Drama in Nineteenth-Century Paris written by Mark Everist and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century Paris attracted foreign musicians like a magnet. The city boasted a range of theatres and of genres represented there, a wealth of libretti and source material for them, vocal, orchestral and choral resources, to say nothing of the set designs, scenery and costumes. All this contributed to an artistic environment that had musicians from Italian- and German-speaking states beating a path to the doors of the Académie Royale de Musique, Opéra-Comique, Théâtre Italien, Théâtre Royal de l'Odéon and Théâtre de la Renaissance. This book both tracks specific aspects of this culture, and examines stage music in Paris through the lens of one of its most important figures: Giacomo Meyerbeer. The early part of the book, which is organised chronologically, examines the institutional background to music drama in Paris in the nineteenth century, and introduces two of Meyerbeer's Italian operas that were of importance for his career in Paris. Meyerbeer's acculturation to Parisian theatrical mores is then examined, especially his moves from the Odéon and Opéra-Comique to the opera house where he eventually made his greatest impact - the Académie Royale de Musique; the shift from Opéra-Comique is then counterpointed by an examination of how an indigenous Parisian composer, Fromental Halévy, made exactly the same leap at more or less the same time. The book continues with the fates of other composers in Paris: Weber, Donizetti, Bellini and Wagner, but concludes with the final Parisian successes that Meyerbeer lived to see - his two opéras comiques.

Author : Simon Maguire
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429773196
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vincenzo Bellini and the Aesthetics of Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera written by Simon Maguire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989. This study explores Italian attitudes to opera while Vincenzo Bellini was studying and composing. It draws mainly on Italian critical and aesthetic writing dating from the end of an era that was still dominated by the Italian bel canto. Many of the writers considered are unfamiliar today, but they express the accepted views on music, opera, and singing that dominated a particularly insular tradition. This title will be of interest to students of Italian and Music History.

Author : William Ashbrook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521276634
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Donizetti and His Operas written by William Ashbrook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series will include both new and recent titles drawn from the whole range of the Press's very substantial publishing programs.

Author : Mark Everist
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351661019
Total Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune written by Mark Everist and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in the history of French nineteenth-century stage music have blossomed in the last decade, encouraging a revision of the view of the primacy of Austro-German music during the period and rebalancing the scholarly field away from instrumental music (key to the Austro-German hegemony) and towards music for the stage. This change of emphasis is having an impact on the world of opera production, with new productions of works not heard since the nineteenth century taking their place in the modern repertory. This awakening of enthusiasm has come at something of a price. Selling French opera as little more than an important precursor to Verdi or Wagner has entailed a focus on works produced exclusively for the Paris Opéra at the expense of the vast range of other types of stage music produced in the capital: opéra comique, opérette, comédie-vaudeville and mélodrame, for example. The first part of this book therefore seeks to reintroduce a number of norms to the study of stage music in Paris: to re-establish contexts and conventions that still remain obscure. The second and third parts acknowledge Paris as an importer and exporter of opera, and its focus moves towards the music of its closest neighbours, the Italian-speaking states, and of its most problematic partners, the German-speaking states, especially the music of Weber and Wagner. Prefaced by an introduction that develops the volume’s overriding intellectual drivers of cultural exchange, genre and institution, this collection brings together twelve of the author’s previously published articles and essays, fully updated for this volume and translated into English for the first time.

Author : James P. Cassaro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113584660X
Total Pages : 305 pages
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Download or read book Gaetano Donizetti written by James P. Cassaro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaetano Donizetti: A Research and Information Guide offers an annotated reference guide to the life and works of this important Italian opera composer. The book opens with a complete chronology of Donizetti's life (1797-1848) and career, relating it to contemporary events. The balance of the book details secondary resources and other works, including general sources, catalogs, correspondence, biographical sources, critical works; production/review sources, singers and theaters, and the individual operas.

Author : Catherine Jones
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074868462X
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book Literature and Music in the Atlantic World, 1767-1867 written by Catherine Jones and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study looks at the relationship of rhetoric and music in the era's intellectual discourses, texts and performance cultures principally in Europe and North America. Catherine Jones begins by examining the attitudes to music and its performance by leading figures of the American Enlightenment and Revolution, notably Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. She also looks at the attempts of Francis Hopkinson, William Billings and others to harness the Orphean power of music so that it should become a progressive force in the creation of a new society. She argues that the association of rhetoric and music that reaches back to classical Antiquity acquired new relevance and underwent new theorisation and practical application in the American Enlightenment in light of revolutionary Atlantic conditions. Jones goes on to consider changes in the relationship of rhetoric and music in the nationalising milieu of the nineteenth century; the connections of literature, music and music theory to changing models of subjectivity; and Romantic appropriations of Enlightenment visions of the public ethical function of music.

Author : Herbert Weinstock
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Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Donizetti and the World of Opera in Italy, Paris and Vienna in the First Half of the Century written by Herbert Weinstock and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Gossett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226304876
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divas and Scholars written by Philip Gossett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-05-30 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Divas and Scholars" is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett's personal experiences of triumphant - and even failed - performances and suffused with his towering passion for music. Gossett, the world's leading authority on the performance of Italian opera, brings to life the problems, and occasionally the scandals, that attend the production of some of our favorite operas.Gossett begins by tracing the social history of nineteenth-century Italian theaters in order to explain the nature of the musical scores from which performers have long worked. He then illuminates the often hidden but crucial negotiations between what is written and how it is interpreted by opera conductors and performers.