Author: Adolf Bernhard Marx
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108038751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
An influential 1863 study of the radical innovations in operatic writing pioneered by Gluck (1714-87) in Vienna and Paris.
Gluck und Die Oper
Author: Adolf Bernhard Marx
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108038751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
An influential 1863 study of the radical innovations in operatic writing pioneered by Gluck (1714-87) in Vienna and Paris.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108038751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
An influential 1863 study of the radical innovations in operatic writing pioneered by Gluck (1714-87) in Vienna and Paris.
Gluck Und Die Oper - Volume 1
Author: Adolf Bernhard Marx
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108038743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
An influential 1863 study of the radical innovations in operatic writing pioneered by Gluck (1714-87) in Vienna and Paris.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108038743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
An influential 1863 study of the radical innovations in operatic writing pioneered by Gluck (1714-87) in Vienna and Paris.
Morality and Viennese Opera in the Age of Mozart and Beethoven
Author: Martin Nedbal
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317094085
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book explores how the Enlightenment aesthetics of theater as a moral institution influenced cultural politics and operatic developments in Vienna between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Moralistic viewpoints were particularly important in eighteenth-century debates about German national theater. In Vienna, the idea that vernacular theater should cultivate the moral sensibilities of its German-speaking audiences became prominent during the reign of Empress Maria Theresa, when advocates of German plays and operas attempted to deflect the imperial government from supporting exclusively French and Italian theatrical performances. Morality continued to be a dominant aspect of Viennese operatic culture in the following decades, as critics, state officials, librettists, and composers (including Gluck, Mozart, and Beethoven) attempted to establish and define German national opera. Viennese concepts of operatic didacticism and national identity in theater further transformed in response to the crisis of Emperor Joseph II’s reform movement, the revolutionary ideas spreading from France, and the war efforts in facing Napoleonic aggression. The imperial government promoted good morals in theatrical performances through the institution of theater censorship, and German-opera authors cultivated intensely didactic works (such as Die Zauberflöte and Fidelio) that eventually became the cornerstones for later developments of German culture.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317094085
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book explores how the Enlightenment aesthetics of theater as a moral institution influenced cultural politics and operatic developments in Vienna between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Moralistic viewpoints were particularly important in eighteenth-century debates about German national theater. In Vienna, the idea that vernacular theater should cultivate the moral sensibilities of its German-speaking audiences became prominent during the reign of Empress Maria Theresa, when advocates of German plays and operas attempted to deflect the imperial government from supporting exclusively French and Italian theatrical performances. Morality continued to be a dominant aspect of Viennese operatic culture in the following decades, as critics, state officials, librettists, and composers (including Gluck, Mozart, and Beethoven) attempted to establish and define German national opera. Viennese concepts of operatic didacticism and national identity in theater further transformed in response to the crisis of Emperor Joseph II’s reform movement, the revolutionary ideas spreading from France, and the war efforts in facing Napoleonic aggression. The imperial government promoted good morals in theatrical performances through the institution of theater censorship, and German-opera authors cultivated intensely didactic works (such as Die Zauberflöte and Fidelio) that eventually became the cornerstones for later developments of German culture.
Drama and Opera: The opera
Author: Alfred Bates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Includes selections, epitomes, outlines of dramas, and some entire plays.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Includes selections, epitomes, outlines of dramas, and some entire plays.
A Short History of Opera
Author: Donald J. Grout
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231507720
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1047
Book Description
When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have. The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day. A Short History of Opera examines not only the standard performance repertoire, but also works considered important for the genre's development. Its expanded scope investigates opera from Eastern European countries and Finland. The section on twentieth-century opera has been reorganized around national operatic traditions including a chapter devoted solely to opera in the United States, which incorporates material on the American musical and ties between classical opera and popular musical theater. A separate section on Chinese opera is also included. With an extensive multilanguage bibliography, more than one hundred musical examples, and stage illustrations, this authoritative one-volume survey will be invaluable to students and serious opera buffs. New fans will also find it highly accessible and informative. Extremely thorough in its coverage, A Short History of Opera is now more than ever the book to turn to for anyone who wants to know about the history of this art form.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231507720
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1047
Book Description
When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have. The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day. A Short History of Opera examines not only the standard performance repertoire, but also works considered important for the genre's development. Its expanded scope investigates opera from Eastern European countries and Finland. The section on twentieth-century opera has been reorganized around national operatic traditions including a chapter devoted solely to opera in the United States, which incorporates material on the American musical and ties between classical opera and popular musical theater. A separate section on Chinese opera is also included. With an extensive multilanguage bibliography, more than one hundred musical examples, and stage illustrations, this authoritative one-volume survey will be invaluable to students and serious opera buffs. New fans will also find it highly accessible and informative. Extremely thorough in its coverage, A Short History of Opera is now more than ever the book to turn to for anyone who wants to know about the history of this art form.
Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Music in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public Library. Allen A. Brown Collection of Music
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The Opera
Author: Albert Ellery Bergh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Annotated bibliography of fine art, by R. Sturgis, H.E. Krehbiel. Ed. by G. Iles
Author: Russell Sturgis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Ernest Newman
Author: Paul Watt
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783271906
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Chronology of Newman's Life and Works -- Abbreviations -- 1 Ernest Newman and the Challenge of Critical Biography -- PART I The Freethought Years -- 2 Formation of a Critical Sensibility: The 1880s and 1890s -- 3 Social, Literary and Musical Criticism: 1893-1897 -- 4 A Rationalist Manifesto: Pseudo-Philosophy at the end of the Nineteenth Century, 1897 -- 5 Music History and the Comparative Method: Gluck and the Opera, 1895 -- PART II The Mainstream Years -- 6 From Manchester to Moscow: Essays on Music, 1900-1920 -- 7 'The World of Music': Essays in the Sunday Times, 1920-1958 -- 8 Biographical and Musicological Tensions: The Man Liszt, 1934 -- 9 Sceptical and Transforming: Books on Wagner, 1899-1959 -- 10 Conclusion: Ernest Newman Remembered -- Appendix: Newman's Freethought Lectures, 1894-1896 -- Bibliography -- Index
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783271906
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Chronology of Newman's Life and Works -- Abbreviations -- 1 Ernest Newman and the Challenge of Critical Biography -- PART I The Freethought Years -- 2 Formation of a Critical Sensibility: The 1880s and 1890s -- 3 Social, Literary and Musical Criticism: 1893-1897 -- 4 A Rationalist Manifesto: Pseudo-Philosophy at the end of the Nineteenth Century, 1897 -- 5 Music History and the Comparative Method: Gluck and the Opera, 1895 -- PART II The Mainstream Years -- 6 From Manchester to Moscow: Essays on Music, 1900-1920 -- 7 'The World of Music': Essays in the Sunday Times, 1920-1958 -- 8 Biographical and Musicological Tensions: The Man Liszt, 1934 -- 9 Sceptical and Transforming: Books on Wagner, 1899-1959 -- 10 Conclusion: Ernest Newman Remembered -- Appendix: Newman's Freethought Lectures, 1894-1896 -- Bibliography -- Index
Academy and Literature
Author: Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description