Programs

Programs PDF Author: University of Michigan. School of Music, Theatre & Dance
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Category : Concert programs
Languages : en
Pages : 1074

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Programs

Programs PDF Author: University of Michigan. School of Music, Theatre & Dance
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Category : Concert programs
Languages : en
Pages : 1074

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L'amour Masqué

L'amour Masqué PDF Author: Honoré de Balzac
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Languages : en
Pages : 90

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The Mask

The Mask PDF Author:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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The Court Masque

The Court Masque PDF Author: Enid Welsford
Publisher: Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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The Court Masque

The Court Masque PDF Author: Enid Welsford
Publisher: CUP Archive
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Masques, Mayings and Music-dramas

Masques, Mayings and Music-dramas PDF Author: Roger Savage
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843839199
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas comprises a sequence of in-depth case-studies of significant aspects of early twentieth-century English music-theatre. Vaughan Williams forms a central thread in this discussion, and Stratford-upon-Avon serves as a geographical focus-point for mediating conflicting visions of an English musical tradition. But the reach of the book is much wider, shedding new light on English Wagnerism (at Glastonbury especially) and on the reception of Wagner's ideas as a point of emulation and resistance. No less significant is the discussion of Purcell and the seventeenth-century masque - one of the primary sources for re-imagining an English dramatic tradition - and the more familiar images of the May festival, the Mummers' play and the pageant play, which are tellingly re-contextualised. The book also looks at the associations between Vaughan Williams, the theatre artist Edward Gordon Craig and the impresario Serge Diaghilev. The sequence is framed by the image of the pilgrim-vagabond Vaughan Williams's setting of the poetry of Matthew Arnold and Robert Louis Stevenson as a metaphor and paradigm for his creative career and personal progress. The book not only sheds light on the activities and ambitions of principal agents but also illuminates a particularly dynamic moment in the re-emergence of a distinctively English music-theatrical practice: one especially concerned with calling on aspects of the past to help to secure a worthwhile future. Notions of Englishness turn out to be less insular than sometimes thought and the idea of a 'musical renaissance' more complex when the case-studies are understood in their proper historical context. Scholars and students of twentieth-century English music, theatre and opera will find this volume indispensable. Roger Savage is Honorary Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on theatre and its interface with music from the baroque to the twentieth century in leading journals and books.

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Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2955846724
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Languages : en
Pages : 151

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Burma, Kipling and Western Music

Burma, Kipling and Western Music PDF Author: Andrew Selth
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 131729890X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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For decades, scholars have been trying to answer the question: how was colonial Burma perceived in and by the Western world, and how did people in countries like the United Kingdom and United States form their views? This book explores how Western perceptions of Burma were influenced by the popular music of the day. From the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824-6 until Burma regained its independence in 1948, more than 180 musical works with Burma-related themes were written in English-speaking countries, in addition to the many hymns composed in and about Burma by Christian missionaries. Servicemen posted to Burma added to the lexicon with marches and ditties, and after 1913 most movies about Burma had their own distinctive scores. Taking Rudyard Kipling’s 1890 ballad ‘Mandalay’ as a critical turning point, this book surveys all these works with emphasis on popular songs and show tunes, also looking at classical works, ballet scores, hymns, soldiers’ songs, sea shanties, and film soundtracks. It examines how they influenced Western perceptions of Burma, and in turn reflected those views back to Western audiences. The book sheds new light not only on the West’s historical relationship with Burma, and the colonial music scene, but also Burma’s place in the development of popular music and the rise of the global music industry. In doing so, it makes an original contribution to the fields of musicology and Asian Studies.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Catalog of Copyright Entries PDF Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1504

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Daughters of Eve

Daughters of Eve PDF Author: Lenard R. Berlanstein
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674020812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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Famous and seductive, female stage performers haunted French public life in the century before and after the Revolution. This pathbreaking study delineates the distinctive place of actresses, dancers, and singers within the French erotic and political imaginations. From the moment they became an unofficial caste of mistresses to France's elite during the reign of Louis XIV, their image fluctuated between emasculating men and delighting them. Drawing upon newspaper accounts, society columns, theater criticism, government reports, autobiographies, public rituals, and a huge corpus of fiction, Lenard Berlanstein argues that the public image of actresses was shaped by the political climate and ruling ideology; thus they were deified in one era and damned in the next. Tolerated when civil society functioned and demonized when it faltered, they finally passed from notoriety to celebrity with the stabilization of parliamentary life after 1880. Only then could female fans admire them openly, and could the state officially recognize their contributions to national life. Daughters of Eve is a provocative look at how a culture creates social perceptions and reshuffles collective identities in response to political change.