Richard Strausss Elektra

Author : Derrick Puffett
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521359719
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Strauss written by Derrick Puffett and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this handbook bring together a full-length study of Elektra in English. The volume examines the many facets of one of Richard Strauss's most complex operas. First, P. E. Easterling surveys the mythological background, while Karen Forsyth discusses Hofmannsthal's adaptation of his sources. The second part brings the music to the fore. Derrick Puffett offers an introductory essay and synopsis; Arnold Whittall considers the tonal and dramatic structure of the composition; Tethys Carpenter explores the musical language of the work in detail, with special focus given to part of the Klytaemnestra scene. The third part of the volume offers two contrasting critical essays: Carolyn Abbate provides an interpretation informed by her recent work on narrative, and Robin Holloway analyses Strauss's orchestration of the opera. The book also contains a discography and an appendix of excerpts from the Strauss-Hofmannsthal correspondence.

Author : Bryan Randolph Gilliam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Strauss's Elektra written by Bryan Randolph Gilliam and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elektra was the fourth of fifteen operas by Strauss and opened his successful partnership with the librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Gilliam's study of this major work examines its musical-historical context and also provides a detailed analysis of some of its musical features. He establishes a chronology of the evolution of the opera and places it in the larger framework of German opera of the time. His detailed examination of the sketchbooks enables him to offer fresh insight into Strauss's use of motifs and overall tonal structure. In so doing he shows how the work's arresting dissonance and chromaticism have hidden its similarities to his later, seemingly more tonally conservative opera, Der Rosenkavalier: not only does Strauss exploit in both a variety of musical styles to express irony, parody, and other emotions, but both are in fact thoroughly tonal.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770485422
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salome written by Oscar Wilde and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salome is Oscar Wilde’s most experimental—and controversial—play. In its own time, the play, written in French, was described by a reviewer as “an arrangement in blood and ferocity, morbid, bizarre, repulsive.” None, however, could deny the importance of Wilde’s creation. Contemporary audiences and reviewers variously regarded Salome as the symbol of a thrilling modernity, a challenge to patriarchy, a confession of desire, a sign of moral decay, a new form of art, and a revolt against the restraints of Victorian society. Less well known than Wilde’s beloved comedies, Salome is as enduringly modern and relevant. This edition uses the English translation done by Wilde’s lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, and overseen and corrected by Wilde himself. Appendices detail the play’s sources and provide extensive materials on its contemporary reception and dramatic productions.

Author : Otto Roese
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Strauss, Elektra written by Otto Roese and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Strauss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elektra written by Richard Strauss and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bryan Randolph Gilliam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786610764983
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Strauss's Elektra. Studies in Music Genesis and Structure. written by Bryan Randolph Gilliam and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elektra was the fourth of fifteen operas by Strauss and opened his successful partnership with the librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Gilliam's study of this major work examines its musical-historical context and also provides a detailed analysis of some of its musical features. He establishes a chronology of the evolution of the opera and places it in the larger framework of German opera of the time. His detailed examination of the sketchbooks enables him to offer fresh insight into Strauss's use of motifs and overall tonal structure. In so doing he shows how the work's arresting dissonance and chromaticism have hidden its similarities to his later, seemingly more tonally conservative opera, Der Rosenkavalier: not only does Strauss exploit in both a variety of musical styles to express irony, parody, and other emotions, but both are in fact thoroughly tonal.

Author : Richard Strauss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elektra written by Richard Strauss and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journey Mini Guide Services
ISBN 13 : 9781930841291
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elektra written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journey Mini Guide Services. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Richard Strauss' ELEKTRA, featuring Principal Characters in the opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and an insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis by Burton D. Fisher, noted opera author and lecturer.

Author : Ernest Hutcheson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book Elektra written by Ernest Hutcheson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yvonne Navarro
Publisher : Pocket Star
ISBN 13 : 9781416505051
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elektra written by Yvonne Navarro and published by Pocket Star. This book was released on 2004-12-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elektra Natchios, a freelance assassin, is forced to make a dangerous choice to save the lives of a man and his young child.