Author: Library of Congress. Music Division
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1196

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Author: Paolo Donzel
Publisher:
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Category : Operas
Languages : it
Pages : 72

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 812

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Author: Ruth A. Solie
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520916506
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from twelfth-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality. Musicology and Difference brings together some of the freshest and most challenging voices in musicology today on a question of importance to all the humanistic disciplines.

Author: Reinhard Strohm
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300064544
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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'Dramma per musica', the most usual term for Italian serious opera from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, was a modern, enlightened form of theater that presented a unified, artistically designed, dramatic enactment of human stories, expressed by the voice and underscored by the orchestra. This book illustrates the diversity of this baroque art form and explains how it has given us opera as we know it.

Author: Richard Dellamora
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231109451
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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In this significant collection of original essays, preeminent literary and cultural critics, musicologists, and queer theorists delve into the way opera shapes national character through its representations of gender, sexuality, and class. The book includes essays on the works of Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and others and examines the impact of such modern phenomena as AIDS. 10 photos. 15 music examples.

Author: Malcolm Boyd
Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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This portrait traces the life of the influential composer through the royal courts, chapels, and concert halls of Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Poland and examines his works and a large number of newly authenticated compositions.

Author: Vernon Hyde Minor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521843416
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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This book describes the waning days of the baroque.

Author: Rita Steblin
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9781580460415
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Steblin's fully updated reference focuses on musical key characteristics during the baroque, classical, and romantic periods. (Music)

Author: Giovanni Pindemonte
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Category : Ballets
Languages : it
Pages : 60

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