Opera Songs

Author : Sarah Kay
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150176389X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera written by Sarah Kay and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is not best analyzed as "words plus music" but rather as a distinctive way of sounding words. Rather than situating them in their immediate period, Sarah Kay fruitfully listens for and traces crosscurrents between medieval French and Occitan songs and both earlier poetry and much later opera. Reflecting on a song's songlike quality—as, for example, the sound of light in the dawn sky, as breathed by beasts, as sirenlike in its perils—Kay reimagines the diversity of songs from this period, which include inset lyrics in medieval French narratives and the works of Guillaume de Machaut, as works that are as much desired and imagined as they are actually sung and heard. Kay understands song in terms of breath, the constellations, the animal soul, and life itself. Her method also draws inspiration from opera, especially those that inventively recreate medieval song, arguing for a perspective on the manuscripts that transmit medieval song as instances of multimedia, quasi-operatic performances. Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera features a companion website (cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/medieval-song) hosting twenty-four audio or video recordings, realized by professional musicians specializing in early music, of pieces discussed in the book, together with performance scores, performance reflections, and translations of all recorded texts. These audiovisual materials represent an extension in practice of the research aims of the book—to better understand the sung dimension of medieval song.

Author : Ellen H. Bleiler
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486157407
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famous Italian Opera Arias written by Ellen H. Bleiler and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original Italian texts with English translations of 145 arias from 50 operas, including Rigoletto, The Marriage of Figaro, Lucia di Lammermoor, Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, and more. Introduction.

Author : Mary Ann Smart
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400866715
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Siren Songs written by Mary Ann Smart and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-25 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been argued that opera is all about sex. Siren Songs is the first collection of articles devoted to exploring the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. Here a distinguished and diverse group of musicologists, literary critics, and feminist scholars address a wide range of fascinating topics--from Salome's striptease to hysteria to jazz and gender--in Italian, English, German, and French operas from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. The authors combine readings of specific scenes with efforts to situate these musical moments within richly and precisely observed historical contexts. Challenging both formalist categories of musical analysis and the rhetoric that traditionally pits a male composer against the female characters he creates, many of the articles work toward inventing a language for the study of gender and opera. The collection opens with Mary Ann Smart's introduction, which provides an engaging reflection on the state of gender topics in operatic criticism and musicology. It then moves on to a foundational essay on the complex relationships between opera and history by the renowned philosopher and novelist Catherine Clément, a pioneer of feminist opera criticism. Other articles examine the evolution of the "trouser role" as it evolved in the lesbian subculture of fin-de-siècle Paris, the phenomenon of opera seria's "absent mother" as a manifestation of attitudes to the family under absolutism, the invention of a "hystericized voice" in Verdi's Don Carlos, and a collaborative discussion of the staging problems posed by the gender politics of Mozart's operas. The contributors are Wye Jamison Allanboork, Joseph Auner, Katherine Bergeron, Philip Brett, Peter Brooks, Catherine Clement, Martha Feldman, Heather Hadlock, Mary Hunter, Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon, M.D., Lawrence Kramer, Roger Parker, Mary Ann Smart, and Gretchen Wheelock.

Author : Tess Weaver
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618096350
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opera Cat written by Tess Weaver and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the opera diva Madame SoSo gets laryngitis, her singing cat Alma fills in for her.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opera Songs written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carolinda Carlson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048649280X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Opera Arias and Themes for Solo Piano written by Carolinda Carlson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original transcription of popular opera melodies for solo piano features 50 pieces, comprising about half of the current performance repertoire and representing nearly all of the major composers.

Author : Henry Krehbiel
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486316661
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty-Three Opera Arias for Sopranos written by Henry Krehbiel and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich selection spans the dawn of Italian opera through the late 19th century. Featured composers include Caccini, Rameau, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Verdi, Bizet, and many others. Original lyrics with separate English translations.

Author : John Keene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780793553327
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Book of Tenor Solos written by John Keene and published by . This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More great teaching material, at the same level as Volume 1. The contents, completely new and unduplicated from Volume 1, once again include American and English art songs, folk songs, sacred songs, and an introduction to singing in German, French, Italian, and Spanish. Over 30 songs in each book. Joan Boytim, who has emerged as the nationally recognized expert in the field of teaching pre-collegiate voice, has done exhaustive research in preparing these volumes.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opera songs written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Rescigno
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574418041
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conducting Opera written by Joseph Rescigno and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conducting Opera discusses operas in the standard repertory from the perspective of a conductor with a lifetime of experience performing them. It focuses on Joseph Rescigno’s approach to preparing and performing these masterworks in order to realize what opera can uniquely achieve: a fusion of music and drama resulting in a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Opening with a chapter discussing his performance philosophy, Rescigno then covers Mozart’s most-performed operas, standards of the bel canto school including Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, five of Verdi’s works including La traviata, a selection of Wagner’s compositions followed by French Romantic operas such as Bizet’s Carmen, Puccini’s major works, and finally four operas by Richard Strauss. A useful appendix contains a convenient guide to the scores available online. Conducting Opera includes practical advice about propelling a story forward and bringing out the drama that the music is meant to supply, as well as how to support singers in their most difficult moments. Rescigno identifies particularly problematic passages and supplies suggestions about how to navigate them. In addition, he provides advice on staying true to the several styles under discussion.