Author: Gesine Manuwald
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110317516
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This book considers the story of Nero and Octavia, as told in the pseudo-Senecan Octavia and the works of ancient historiographers, and its reception in (early) modern opera and some related examples of other performative genres. In total the study assembles more than 30 performative texts (including 22 librettos), ranging chronologically from L'incoronazione di Poppea in 1642/43 until the early 20th century, and provides detailed information on all of them. In a close examination of the libretto (and dramatic) texts, the study shows the impact and development of this fascinating story from the beginnings of historical opera onwards. The volume demonstrates the various transformations of the characters of Nero and his wives and of the depiction of their relationship over the centuries, and it looks at the tension between “historical” elements and genre conventions. The book is therefore of relevance to literary scholars as well as to readers interested in the evolution of Nero’s image in present-day media.
Nero in Opera
Author: Gesine Manuwald
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110317516
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This book considers the story of Nero and Octavia, as told in the pseudo-Senecan Octavia and the works of ancient historiographers, and its reception in (early) modern opera and some related examples of other performative genres. In total the study assembles more than 30 performative texts (including 22 librettos), ranging chronologically from L'incoronazione di Poppea in 1642/43 until the early 20th century, and provides detailed information on all of them. In a close examination of the libretto (and dramatic) texts, the study shows the impact and development of this fascinating story from the beginnings of historical opera onwards. The volume demonstrates the various transformations of the characters of Nero and his wives and of the depiction of their relationship over the centuries, and it looks at the tension between “historical” elements and genre conventions. The book is therefore of relevance to literary scholars as well as to readers interested in the evolution of Nero’s image in present-day media.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110317516
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This book considers the story of Nero and Octavia, as told in the pseudo-Senecan Octavia and the works of ancient historiographers, and its reception in (early) modern opera and some related examples of other performative genres. In total the study assembles more than 30 performative texts (including 22 librettos), ranging chronologically from L'incoronazione di Poppea in 1642/43 until the early 20th century, and provides detailed information on all of them. In a close examination of the libretto (and dramatic) texts, the study shows the impact and development of this fascinating story from the beginnings of historical opera onwards. The volume demonstrates the various transformations of the characters of Nero and his wives and of the depiction of their relationship over the centuries, and it looks at the tension between “historical” elements and genre conventions. The book is therefore of relevance to literary scholars as well as to readers interested in the evolution of Nero’s image in present-day media.
Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800
Author: Library of Congress. Music Division
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
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Bach, Handel, Scarlatti 1685-1985
Author: Peter Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521252171
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
1985 celebrated the 300th anniversary of the births of Bach, Handel and Scarlatti. This volume covers all three composers and contains essays from an international team of scholars. Some essays make a contribution towards a better understanding of one or other composer, but at least half of them are concerned with ideas connecting two or even all three of them. The essays are concerned with many aspects of the music - technical, chronological, critical, speculative, theoretical and (importantly) practical - and the distinguished contributors have often endeavoured to ask questions rather than jump to conclusions. Every essay makes fresh points and can open up new avenues for players and (in the broadest sense) students, especially in the present climate of wishing to return to 'authentic conditions of performance'.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521252171
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
1985 celebrated the 300th anniversary of the births of Bach, Handel and Scarlatti. This volume covers all three composers and contains essays from an international team of scholars. Some essays make a contribution towards a better understanding of one or other composer, but at least half of them are concerned with ideas connecting two or even all three of them. The essays are concerned with many aspects of the music - technical, chronological, critical, speculative, theoretical and (importantly) practical - and the distinguished contributors have often endeavoured to ask questions rather than jump to conclusions. Every essay makes fresh points and can open up new avenues for players and (in the broadest sense) students, especially in the present climate of wishing to return to 'authentic conditions of performance'.
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Author: Puttick and Simpson (messrs.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Pages : 780
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Agrippina drama per musica. Da rappresentarsi nel famosissimo teatro Grimani di S. Gio. Grisostomo l'anno 1709
Author: Vincenzo Grimani
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Languages : it
Pages : 64
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Languages : it
Pages : 64
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I libretti italiani di Georg Friedrich Händel e le loro fonti: Da Vincer se stesso è la maggior vittoria (1707) a L'Elpidia, overo Li rivali generosi (1725) (2 v.)
Author: George Frideric Handel
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Category : Operas
Languages : it
Pages : 460
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Category : Operas
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Pages : 460
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Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice
Author: Ellen Rosand
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520254260
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
"In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520254260
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
"In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi
Drama per musica da rappresentarsi nel famosimo [!] teatro Grimani di S. Gio. Grisostomo. Nel Carnevale dell'anno 1716. ..
Author: Pietro Giorgio Barziza
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Languages : it
Pages : 62
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Languages : it
Pages : 62
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Agrippina
Author: Vincenzio Grimani
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Languages : de
Pages : 102
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Languages : de
Pages : 102
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La Gelidaura drama per musica da rappresentarsi nel famosissimo teatro Grimani di S. Giovanni, e Paolo, l'anno 1692. Consagrata all'illustriss. & eccell. signor Alvise Pisani dignissimo procurator di S. Marco
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Languages : it
Pages : 70
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Pages : 70
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