Essays On Handel And Italian Opera

Author : Reinhard Strohm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521088350
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Handel and Italian Opera written by Reinhard Strohm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinhard Strohm examines the relationship between Handel's great operas and the earlier European Baroque tradition.

Author : Winton Dean
Publisher : Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Opera written by Winton Dean and published by Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 30 essays on opera, written between 1952 and 1985, are collected and arranged by topic.

Author : JohnA. Rice
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351567888
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Opera, 1750-1800 written by JohnA. Rice and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of opera in the second half of the eighteenth century has flourished during the last several decades, and our knowledge of the operas written during that period and of their aesthetic, social, and political context has vastly increased. This volume explores opera and operatic life of the years 1750-1800 through a selection of articles intended to represent the last few decades of scholarship in all its excitement and variety.

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 : David Littlejohn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520325575
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Art written by David Littlejohn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stanley Sadie
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9780835718332
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handel, Tercentenary Collection written by Stanley Sadie and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nigel Fortune
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521619288
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Theatre written by Nigel Fortune and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of eleven essays, compiled as a tribute to Winton Dean on his seventieth birthday, focuses on that area which has absorbed Winton Dean's interest throughout his distinguished career: opera and other theatre music. The first half of the book covers the period from the late seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth. The second half of the book ranges over later opera: operacomique; Mendelssohn's operas; the influence of Wagner; the finales of Janácek's operas; and Britten's first two major operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia.

Author : Mary Ann Parker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136783598
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book G. F. Handel written by Mary Ann Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baroque composer George Frideric Handel easily ranks among the world's greatest composers. The first edition of this research guide on Handel appeared in 1988; since that time a great deal of scholarly work has been published on Handel and related areas, including the discovery of a hitherto unknown work. New general resources such as the New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), electronic resources such as the RISM libretto catalogue online, and the study of Handel's continuing popularity as evidenced by the new Handel House Museum in London and Handel practice around the world (e.g., Messiah and millennium celebrations in Tonga, singalong Messiahs etc.) are incorporated into this revised edition of the Handel guide.

Author : Suzanne Aspden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107033373
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rival Sirens written by Suzanne Aspden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rival Sirens examines the vital and intertwined roles of singers, audiences and local cultural context in creating eighteenth-century opera.

Author : Sarah Yuill McCleave
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580464203
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance in Handel's London Operas written by Sarah Yuill McCleave and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the pivotal role of dance in the Italian operas of Handel, perhaps the greatest opera composer between Monteverdi and Mozart. George Frideric Handel set himself apart from his contemporaries by employing choreographed instrumental music to complement and reinforce the emotional impact of his operas. Of his fifty-three operas, no fewer than fourteen -- including ten written for the London stage -- feature dances. Dance in Handel's London Operas explores the relationship between music, drama, and dance in these London works, dispelling the notion that dance was a largely peripheral element in Italian-language operas prior to those of Gluck. Taking a chronological approach, Sarah McCleave examines operas written throughout various periods in Handel's life, beginning with his early London operas, including his time at the Royal Music Academy and the "Sallé" operas of the 1730s, and concluding with his unstaged dramatic opera Alceste (1750). In considering the various influences on Handel (particularly the London stage), McCleave blends analysis of information from eighteenth-century treatises with that found in more modern studies, offering an informed and imaginative understanding of the role dance played in the work of this major figure --one who remained responsive throughout his career to the vital and innovative theatrical environment in which he worked. Sarah McCleave is a lecturer at The School of Creative Arts at Queen's University Belfast.