Author: Library of Congress. Music Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description
Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800
Author: Library of Congress. Music Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description
Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800
Author: Oscar George Theodore Sonneck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800: Author list, composer list and aria index
Author: Library of Congress. Music Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Librettos
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Librettos
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Empress Marie Therese and Music at the Viennese Court, 1792-1807
Author: John A. Rice
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521825122
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This is a study of the musical activities of Empress Marie Therese, one of the most important patrons in the Vienna of Haydn and Beethoven. Building on extensive archival research, including many documents published here for the first time, John A. Rice describes Marie Therese's activities as commissioner, collector and performer of music, and explores the rich and diverse musical culture that she fostered at court. This book, which will be of interest to musicologists, historians of artistic patronage and taste, and practitioners of women's studies, elucidates this remarkable woman's relations with a host of professional musicians, including Haydn, and argues that she played a significant and hitherto unsuspected role in the inception of one of the era's greatest masterpieces, Beethoven's Fidelio. Other composers discussed include Domenico Cimarosa, Joseph Eybler, Michael Haydn, Johann Simon Mayr, Ferdinando Paer, Antonio Salieri, Joseph Weigl and Paul Wranitzky.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521825122
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This is a study of the musical activities of Empress Marie Therese, one of the most important patrons in the Vienna of Haydn and Beethoven. Building on extensive archival research, including many documents published here for the first time, John A. Rice describes Marie Therese's activities as commissioner, collector and performer of music, and explores the rich and diverse musical culture that she fostered at court. This book, which will be of interest to musicologists, historians of artistic patronage and taste, and practitioners of women's studies, elucidates this remarkable woman's relations with a host of professional musicians, including Haydn, and argues that she played a significant and hitherto unsuspected role in the inception of one of the era's greatest masterpieces, Beethoven's Fidelio. Other composers discussed include Domenico Cimarosa, Joseph Eybler, Michael Haydn, Johann Simon Mayr, Ferdinando Paer, Antonio Salieri, Joseph Weigl and Paul Wranitzky.
Performing Operas for Mozart
Author: Ian Woodfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107014298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A study of the Prague Italian opera company and its role in performing Mozart's works in the late eighteenth-century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107014298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A study of the Prague Italian opera company and its role in performing Mozart's works in the late eighteenth-century.
The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr
Author: E.T.A. Hoffmann
Publisher: Lebooks Editora
ISBN: 6558943387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
In E.T.A. Hoffmann's extraordinary novel, Opinions of the Cat Murr , the reader embarks on a fantastic journey through the routine activities of daily life in 19th century Germany. The confident and eclectic talents of Murr, a creature inspired by Hoffmann's own beloved cat, make him a true feline of the Renaissance, while Kriesler, Hoffmann's alter ego, is a character saturated with romantic sensibility. E.T.A. Hoffmann's strange tale evokes the supernatural, the operatic, the musical, and the psychiatric in a narrative populated by characters who cross the boundaries between madness and sanity, with a style that reflects this uncertainty. The work influenced a diverse group including Gogol, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Kierkegaard, and Jung, and in many ways foreshadowed Freud's ideas about the mysterious. Opinions of the Cat Murr is a classic and is part of the famous collection: 1001 BOOKS to Read Before You Die.
Publisher: Lebooks Editora
ISBN: 6558943387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
In E.T.A. Hoffmann's extraordinary novel, Opinions of the Cat Murr , the reader embarks on a fantastic journey through the routine activities of daily life in 19th century Germany. The confident and eclectic talents of Murr, a creature inspired by Hoffmann's own beloved cat, make him a true feline of the Renaissance, while Kriesler, Hoffmann's alter ego, is a character saturated with romantic sensibility. E.T.A. Hoffmann's strange tale evokes the supernatural, the operatic, the musical, and the psychiatric in a narrative populated by characters who cross the boundaries between madness and sanity, with a style that reflects this uncertainty. The work influenced a diverse group including Gogol, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Kierkegaard, and Jung, and in many ways foreshadowed Freud's ideas about the mysterious. Opinions of the Cat Murr is a classic and is part of the famous collection: 1001 BOOKS to Read Before You Die.
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 : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Giovanni Paisiello, a Thematic Catalogue of His Works: Dramatic works
Author: Michael F. Robinson
Publisher: Stuyvesant, N.Y. : Pendragon Press, c1991-c1994.
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Vol. 1 : Dramatic works ; vol. 2: Non-dramatic works.
Publisher: Stuyvesant, N.Y. : Pendragon Press, c1991-c1994.
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Vol. 1 : Dramatic works ; vol. 2: Non-dramatic works.
The Variations of Johannes Brahms
Author: Julian Littlewood
Publisher: Plumbago Books and Arts
ISBN: 0954012348
Category : Variations
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Variation is a fundamental musical principle, yet its most naked expression - variation form - resists all but the broadest of descriptions. This book offers listener, performer, analyst and composer an eclectic array of approaches to `Theme and Variations', including: patterns of departure and return; real versus perceived time; strategies of propulsion and closure in an intrinsically cyclic and open-ended form; the interplay of authorial voices deriving from dialogue between the `self' of variations and the `other' of their theme; critique of a theme through a set's generic references; drama and narrative achieved through textural and tonal control; and the intrinsic sound of a variation, so different from that of a freely composed work. These topics are introduced through a general survey of the form, seen through the prisms of the provenance of themes and the ideologies of sets, before being developed through close study of Brahms's variation sets and movements. Brahms was supremely aware of his place in music history and was uncommonly self-conscious in his manipulation of different techniques of composition. His variation sets - some of the most well-crafted and beloved examples - place the interplay of forms and styles at the heart of their identity. Moreover, in their stunning breadth and diversity they offer a microcosm of Brahms's entire output, a succinct revelation of his life-long concerns. Through them we marvel at his technical and poetic mastery, and journey to the heart of his creative character.
Publisher: Plumbago Books and Arts
ISBN: 0954012348
Category : Variations
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Variation is a fundamental musical principle, yet its most naked expression - variation form - resists all but the broadest of descriptions. This book offers listener, performer, analyst and composer an eclectic array of approaches to `Theme and Variations', including: patterns of departure and return; real versus perceived time; strategies of propulsion and closure in an intrinsically cyclic and open-ended form; the interplay of authorial voices deriving from dialogue between the `self' of variations and the `other' of their theme; critique of a theme through a set's generic references; drama and narrative achieved through textural and tonal control; and the intrinsic sound of a variation, so different from that of a freely composed work. These topics are introduced through a general survey of the form, seen through the prisms of the provenance of themes and the ideologies of sets, before being developed through close study of Brahms's variation sets and movements. Brahms was supremely aware of his place in music history and was uncommonly self-conscious in his manipulation of different techniques of composition. His variation sets - some of the most well-crafted and beloved examples - place the interplay of forms and styles at the heart of their identity. Moreover, in their stunning breadth and diversity they offer a microcosm of Brahms's entire output, a succinct revelation of his life-long concerns. Through them we marvel at his technical and poetic mastery, and journey to the heart of his creative character.
Schubert, Müller, and Die Schöne Müllerin
Author: Susan Youens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521563642
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The collaboration of Schubert and the poet Wilhelm Müller produced some of the best loved of nineteenth-century lieder - in particular the song cycle Die schöne Müllerin. Professor Youens shows us how this archetypal tale of love and rejection, which has its origins in medieval romance, Minnesong and popular German legend, is reflected in the poet's own experience, the realms of art and life intertwining. Professor Youens considers other poets' explorations of the theme of a miller maid and her suitors, and looks at other musical settings of Müller's mill poems. But above all she examines Müller's permutation of the literary legends as an exploration of erotic obsession, delusion, frenzy, disillusionment and death and the way in which Schubert crucially altered Müller's vision when the poetic cycle became a musical text.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521563642
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The collaboration of Schubert and the poet Wilhelm Müller produced some of the best loved of nineteenth-century lieder - in particular the song cycle Die schöne Müllerin. Professor Youens shows us how this archetypal tale of love and rejection, which has its origins in medieval romance, Minnesong and popular German legend, is reflected in the poet's own experience, the realms of art and life intertwining. Professor Youens considers other poets' explorations of the theme of a miller maid and her suitors, and looks at other musical settings of Müller's mill poems. But above all she examines Müller's permutation of the literary legends as an exploration of erotic obsession, delusion, frenzy, disillusionment and death and the way in which Schubert crucially altered Müller's vision when the poetic cycle became a musical text.