Author: Mark Everist
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197546013
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works. But a richer understanding of the music of the past may be obtained by also considering the afterlives of a composer's works. Genealogies of Music and Memory asks how the stage works of Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-87) were cultivated in nineteenth-century Paris, and concludes that although the composer was not represented formally on the stage until 1859, his music was known from a wide range of musical and literary environments. Received opinion has Hector Berlioz as the sole guardian of the Gluckian flame from the 1820s onwards, and responsible -- together with the soprano Pauline Viardot -- for the 'revival' of the composer's Orfeo in 1859. The picture is much clarified by looking at the concert performances of Gluck during the first two thirds of the nineteenth century, and the ways in which they were received and the literary discourses they engendered. Coupled to questions of music publication, pedagogy, and the institutional status of the composer, such a study reveals a wide range of individual agents active in the promotion of Gluck's music for the Parisian stage. The 'revival' of Orfeo is contextualised among other attempts at reviving Gluck's works in the 1860s, and the role of Berlioz, Viardot and a host of others re-examined.
Genealogies of Music and Memory
Author: Mark Everist
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197546013
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works. But a richer understanding of the music of the past may be obtained by also considering the afterlives of a composer's works. Genealogies of Music and Memory asks how the stage works of Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-87) were cultivated in nineteenth-century Paris, and concludes that although the composer was not represented formally on the stage until 1859, his music was known from a wide range of musical and literary environments. Received opinion has Hector Berlioz as the sole guardian of the Gluckian flame from the 1820s onwards, and responsible -- together with the soprano Pauline Viardot -- for the 'revival' of the composer's Orfeo in 1859. The picture is much clarified by looking at the concert performances of Gluck during the first two thirds of the nineteenth century, and the ways in which they were received and the literary discourses they engendered. Coupled to questions of music publication, pedagogy, and the institutional status of the composer, such a study reveals a wide range of individual agents active in the promotion of Gluck's music for the Parisian stage. The 'revival' of Orfeo is contextualised among other attempts at reviving Gluck's works in the 1860s, and the role of Berlioz, Viardot and a host of others re-examined.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197546013
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works. But a richer understanding of the music of the past may be obtained by also considering the afterlives of a composer's works. Genealogies of Music and Memory asks how the stage works of Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-87) were cultivated in nineteenth-century Paris, and concludes that although the composer was not represented formally on the stage until 1859, his music was known from a wide range of musical and literary environments. Received opinion has Hector Berlioz as the sole guardian of the Gluckian flame from the 1820s onwards, and responsible -- together with the soprano Pauline Viardot -- for the 'revival' of the composer's Orfeo in 1859. The picture is much clarified by looking at the concert performances of Gluck during the first two thirds of the nineteenth century, and the ways in which they were received and the literary discourses they engendered. Coupled to questions of music publication, pedagogy, and the institutional status of the composer, such a study reveals a wide range of individual agents active in the promotion of Gluck's music for the Parisian stage. The 'revival' of Orfeo is contextualised among other attempts at reviving Gluck's works in the 1860s, and the role of Berlioz, Viardot and a host of others re-examined.
The Adventures of Hermes, God of Thieves
Author: Murielle Szac
Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
ISBN: 1782690700
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Follow Hermes on 100 unforgettable journeys across the fascinating, colourful world of Greek mythology. The young god is determined to have adventures from the very moment of his unusual birth, stealing sacred cows, discovering fire and inventing the lyre and flute. With his tumbling brown curls and cheerful fearlessness, he charms his fellow gods: mighty Apollo, mournful Artemis, beautiful Aphrodite, and even the king of the gods, his father, Zeus himself. He will drink the nectar of Olympus and discover the truth about the immortals, from their first moments and worst monsters to their greatest loves and most terrible battles-but Hermes won't let any of it distract him from that whole wide world of good fun...
Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
ISBN: 1782690700
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Follow Hermes on 100 unforgettable journeys across the fascinating, colourful world of Greek mythology. The young god is determined to have adventures from the very moment of his unusual birth, stealing sacred cows, discovering fire and inventing the lyre and flute. With his tumbling brown curls and cheerful fearlessness, he charms his fellow gods: mighty Apollo, mournful Artemis, beautiful Aphrodite, and even the king of the gods, his father, Zeus himself. He will drink the nectar of Olympus and discover the truth about the immortals, from their first moments and worst monsters to their greatest loves and most terrible battles-but Hermes won't let any of it distract him from that whole wide world of good fun...
Monographic Series
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738185908
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738185908
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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Poems
Author: Sir John Salusbury
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Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Flemish Tapestry Weavers Abroad
Author: Guy Delmarcel
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789058672216
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Thirteen specialists on the history of tapestry offer a detailed survey of the lives and works of the Flemish weavers and of their relations with foreign patrons and artists.
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789058672216
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Thirteen specialists on the history of tapestry offer a detailed survey of the lives and works of the Flemish weavers and of their relations with foreign patrons and artists.
Le Guide Musical
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Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Dictionnaire Des Operas: Lao-Z. Supplement
Author: Félix Clément
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Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Oud Holland
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Harvey Milk
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Pages : 0
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