Author: Lars Eckstein
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9042030364
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Reading Song Lyrics offers the first systematic introduction to lyrics as a vibrant genre of (performed) literature. It takes lyrics seriously as a complex form of verbal art that has been unjustly neglected in literary, music, and, to a lesser degree, cultural studies, partly as it cuts squarely across institutional boundaries. The first part of this book accordingly introduces a thoroughly transdisciplinary interpretive framework. It outlines theoretical approaches to issues such as performance and performativity, generic convention and cultural capital, sound and songfulness, mediality and musical multimedia, and step by step applies them to the example of a single song. The second part then offers three extended case studies which showcase the larger cultural and historical viability of this model. Probing into the relationship between lyrics and the ambivalent performance of national culture in Britain, it offers exemplary readings of a highly subversive 1597 ayre by John Dowland, of an 1811 broadside ballad about Sara Baartman, ‘The Hottentot Venus’, and of a 2000 song by ‘jungle punk’ collective Asian Dub Foundation. Reading Song Lyrics demonstrates how and why song lyrics matter as a paradigmatic art form in the culture of modernity.
A Production Thesis of Benjamin Britten's Let's Make an Opera
Author: Joanne M. Jonson
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Benjamin Britten
Author: Peter J. Hodgson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135580308
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This work constitutes the largest and most comprehensive research guide ever published about Benjamin Britten. Entries survey the most significant published materials relating to the composer, including bibliographies, catalogs, letters and documents, conference reports, biographies, and studies of Britten's music.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135580308
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This work constitutes the largest and most comprehensive research guide ever published about Benjamin Britten. Entries survey the most significant published materials relating to the composer, including bibliographies, catalogs, letters and documents, conference reports, biographies, and studies of Britten's music.
Benjamin Britten: Let's Make an Opera!
Author: Jirina Jeraskova
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Languages : en
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Benjamin Britten's "let's Make an Opera"
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Languages : en
Pages : 6
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Pages : 6
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Children's Theatre
Author: Wesley Van Tassel
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
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Category : Children's plays
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
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Category : Children's plays
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw
Author: Patricia Howard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521283564
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This book is designed to introduce the non-specialist music lover to Britten's opera, The Turn of the Screw. The opening chapters by Vivien Jones and Patricia Howard deal with the literary source of the opera Oames's novella), the structure of the libretto, and the technique by which a short story was transformed into an opera. The central chapter, on the musical style and structures of the opera, includes an account of the composition process deduced from early sketches of the work by John Evans, an analysis of the unique form of the opera with a more detailed examination of the last scene by Patricia Howard, and an account of the significance and effect of the orchestration by Christopher Palmer. Finally, Patricia Howard traces the stage history of the work, from its initial reception in Venice in 1954, through some seminal reinterpretations in the 1960s to its present established position in the repertoire. The book is generously illustrated and there is also a bibliography and discography.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521283564
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This book is designed to introduce the non-specialist music lover to Britten's opera, The Turn of the Screw. The opening chapters by Vivien Jones and Patricia Howard deal with the literary source of the opera Oames's novella), the structure of the libretto, and the technique by which a short story was transformed into an opera. The central chapter, on the musical style and structures of the opera, includes an account of the composition process deduced from early sketches of the work by John Evans, an analysis of the unique form of the opera with a more detailed examination of the last scene by Patricia Howard, and an account of the significance and effect of the orchestration by Christopher Palmer. Finally, Patricia Howard traces the stage history of the work, from its initial reception in Venice in 1954, through some seminal reinterpretations in the 1960s to its present established position in the repertoire. The book is generously illustrated and there is also a bibliography and discography.
Marc Blitzstein
Author: Howard Pollack
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199791597
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
Award-winning music historian Howard Pollack's new biography of Marc Blitzstein deftly captures the fascinating life and career of an American composer who was openly gay and Marxist at a time when neither was acceptable to the American public. The first biographer to deal with Blitzstein's music as well as his life, Pollack delves deeply into the Blitzstein's life, uncovering new details about his marriage to novelist Eva Goldbeck and his compositional process. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, this book is a must-have for any fan of Broadway or American music.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199791597
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
Award-winning music historian Howard Pollack's new biography of Marc Blitzstein deftly captures the fascinating life and career of an American composer who was openly gay and Marxist at a time when neither was acceptable to the American public. The first biographer to deal with Blitzstein's music as well as his life, Pollack delves deeply into the Blitzstein's life, uncovering new details about his marriage to novelist Eva Goldbeck and his compositional process. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, this book is a must-have for any fan of Broadway or American music.
Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes
Author: Mary Ann Topper
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Children's Theatre and Creative Dramatics
Author: Rachel Fordyce
Publisher: Hall Reference Books
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Publisher: Hall Reference Books
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw in Production
Author: Brian Richard Bizzell
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
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