Author: Domenico Pietropaolo
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442641630
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The Baroque Libretto catalogues the Baroque Italian operas and oratorios in the Thomas Fisher Library at the University of Toronto and offers an analysis of how the study of libretto can inform the understanding of opera.
The Baroque Libretto
Author: Domenico Pietropaolo
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442641630
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The Baroque Libretto catalogues the Baroque Italian operas and oratorios in the Thomas Fisher Library at the University of Toronto and offers an analysis of how the study of libretto can inform the understanding of opera.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442641630
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The Baroque Libretto catalogues the Baroque Italian operas and oratorios in the Thomas Fisher Library at the University of Toronto and offers an analysis of how the study of libretto can inform the understanding of opera.
Dramma Per Musica
Author: Reinhard Strohm
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300064544
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
'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.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300064544
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
'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.
The Body, the Dance and the Text
Author: Brynn Wein Shiovitz
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476634858
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, resist or mark the body of the "Other." Contributors draw on varied backgrounds to examine different movement practices. They focus on movement as a meaning-making process, including the choreographic act of writing. The challenges faced by marginalized bodies are discussed, along with the ability of a body to question, contest and re-write historical narratives.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476634858
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, resist or mark the body of the "Other." Contributors draw on varied backgrounds to examine different movement practices. They focus on movement as a meaning-making process, including the choreographic act of writing. The challenges faced by marginalized bodies are discussed, along with the ability of a body to question, contest and re-write historical narratives.
Studies in the Libretto
Author: Ulrich Weisstein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music and language
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music and language
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation
Author: Robin Healey
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802008008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
This bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802008008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
This bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.
'Make It Old': Retro Forms and Styles in Literature and Music
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004516476
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
‘Retro’ is not only a pervading phenomenon in today’s Western culture but has informed cultural history for some centuries and thus gives momentousness to the subject of the present volume, namely literary texts and musical compositions which, for various reasons and with multiple functions, ‘make it old’.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004516476
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
‘Retro’ is not only a pervading phenomenon in today’s Western culture but has informed cultural history for some centuries and thus gives momentousness to the subject of the present volume, namely literary texts and musical compositions which, for various reasons and with multiple functions, ‘make it old’.
Dance as Text
Author: Mark Franko
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199794014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet of the late Renaissance and early baroque. Franko's analysis blends archival research with critical and cultural theory in order to resituate the burlesque tradition in its politically volatile context. He reveals the ideological tensions underlying experiments with autonomous dance in the early modern.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199794014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet of the late Renaissance and early baroque. Franko's analysis blends archival research with critical and cultural theory in order to resituate the burlesque tradition in its politically volatile context. He reveals the ideological tensions underlying experiments with autonomous dance in the early modern.
A History of the Oratorio: The oratorio in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Author: Howard E. Smither
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807825112
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio. Volumes 1 and 2, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1977, treated the oratorio in the Baroque era, while Volume 3, published in 1987, explored th
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807825112
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio. Volumes 1 and 2, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1977, treated the oratorio in the Baroque era, while Volume 3, published in 1987, explored th
The Singing Turk
Author: Larry Wolff
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804799652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a series of works, including The Italian Girl in Algiers. And these are only the best known of a vast repertory. This book explores how these representations of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, the great nemesis of Christian Europe, became so popular in the opera house and what they illustrate about European–Ottoman international relations. After Christian armies defeated the Ottomans at Vienna in 1683, the Turks no longer seemed as threatening. Europeans increasingly understood that Turkish issues were also European issues, and the political absolutism of the sultan in Istanbul was relevant for thinking about politics in Europe, from the reign of Louis XIV to the age of Napoleon. While Christian European composers and publics recognized that Muslim Turks were, to some degree, different from themselves, this difference was sometimes seen as a matter of exotic costume and setting. The singing Turks of the stage expressed strong political perspectives and human emotions that European audiences could recognize as their own.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804799652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a series of works, including The Italian Girl in Algiers. And these are only the best known of a vast repertory. This book explores how these representations of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, the great nemesis of Christian Europe, became so popular in the opera house and what they illustrate about European–Ottoman international relations. After Christian armies defeated the Ottomans at Vienna in 1683, the Turks no longer seemed as threatening. Europeans increasingly understood that Turkish issues were also European issues, and the political absolutism of the sultan in Istanbul was relevant for thinking about politics in Europe, from the reign of Louis XIV to the age of Napoleon. While Christian European composers and publics recognized that Muslim Turks were, to some degree, different from themselves, this difference was sometimes seen as a matter of exotic costume and setting. The singing Turks of the stage expressed strong political perspectives and human emotions that European audiences could recognize as their own.
The Musical World
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description