Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738184162
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Les Livres de L'année
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
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Le Guide Musical
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Operetta
Author: Robert Ignatius LetellierPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443885088
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Operetta developed in the second half of the 19th century from the French opéra-comique and the more lighthearted German Singspiel. As the century progressed, the serious concerns of mainstream opera were sustained and intensified, leaving a gap between opéra-comique and vaudeville that necessitated a new type of stage work. Jacques Offenbach, son of a Cologne synagogue cantor, established himself in Paris with his series of opéras-bouffes. The popular success of this individual new form of entertainment light, humorous, satirical and also sentimental led to the emergence of operetta as a separate genre, an art form with its own special flavour and concerns, and no longer simply a "little opera". Attempts to emulate Offenbach's success in France and abroad generated other national schools of operetta and helped to establish the genre internationally, in Spain, in England, and especially in Austria Hungary. Here it inspired works by Franz von Suppé and Johann Strauss II (the Golden Age), and later Franz Lehár and Emmerich Kálmán (the Silver Age). Viennese operetta flourished conterminously with the Habsburg Empire and the mystique of Vienna, but, after the First World War, an artistically vibrant Berlin assumed this leading position (with Paul Lincke, Leon Jessel and Edouard Künnecke). As popular musical tastes diverged more and more during the interwar years, with the advent of new influences—like those of cabaret, the revue, jazz, modern dance music and the cinema, as well as changing social mores—the operetta genre took on new guises. This was especially manifested in the musical comedy of London's West End and New York's Broadway, with their imitators generating a success that opened a new golden age for the reinvented genre, especially after the Second World War. This source book presents an overview of the operetta genre in all its forms. The second volume provides a survey of the national schools of Germany, Spain, England, America, the Slavonic countries (especially Russia), Hungary, Italy and Greece. The principal composers are considered in chronological sequence, with biographical material and a list of stage works, selected synopses and some commentary. This volume also contains a discography and an index covering both volumes (general entries, singers and theatres).
The Doctrine of Morality
Author: Marin Le Roy Gomberville (sieur de)Publisher:
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Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738184162
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Laws for the Government of the District of Louisiana Passed by the Governor and Judges of the Indiana Territory
Author: LouisianaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
A General Digest of the Ordinances and Resolutions of the Corporation of New-Orleans
Author: New Orleans (La.).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Histoire Physiologique Et Anecdotique Des Chiens de Toutes Les Races
Author: Bénédict-Henry RévoilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
The Canada Gazette
Author: CanadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
Book Description
The Gargantuan Polity
Author: Michael RandallPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 144269274X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Critics and scholars have long argued that the Renaissance was the period that gave rise to the modern individual. The Gargantuan Polity examines political, legal, theological, and literary texts in the late Middle Ages, to show how individuals were defined by contracts of mutual obligation, which allowed rulers to hold power due to approval of their subjects. Noting how the relationship between rulers and individuals changed with the rise of absolute monarchy, Michael Randall provides significant insight into Renaissance culture and politics by showing how individuals went from being understood in terms of their objective relations with the community to subjective beings. By studying this evolution, he challenges the argument that subjectivity enabled modern political autonomy to come into existence, and instead argues that subjectivity might have disempowered the outwardly directed and highly political individuals of the late Middle Ages. A profound and detailed study of one of the most drastic periods of change, The Gargantuan Polity will be of interest to scholars of French literature, the Renaissance, and intellectual history.
