Author: Edith Nesbit
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ISBN: 9780744514858
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 37
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From the moment the Bad Fairy Malevola utters a curse that makes Princess Melisande bald, hair - either too little or too much - becomes the bane of the poor girl's existence. Only Prince Florizel, it seems, can untangle her fate.
Author: Roger Nichols
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521314466
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The first comprehensive guide to Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy's only completed opera, this book is written by three of the leading authorities on French music of the period. As a background to the opera Richard Langham Smith discusses the play, by the Belgian dramatist Maeterlinck, and considers its literary roots. David Grayson then traces the genesis and composition of the opera, examining also the sketches and rejected versions in order to illuminate Debussy's compositional strategies. A detailed synopsis by Roger Nichols, which considers carefully Debussy's musical response to the text, forms a central chapter. The book then moves on to consider more detailed aspects of the style and language of the opera. The relationship between symbols and musical motives forms the basis of a chapter by Richard Langham Smith, and a subsequent chapter by him considers the themes of darkness and light and the key-schemes used to portray them. Two chapters by Roger Nichols on the various performances since 1902 and on the ideas of interpreters and commentators complete the text. The book concludes with a detailed bibliography and a discography.
Author: Claude Debussy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Author: Claude Debussy
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher: Editions l'Escalier
ISBN: 2355830576
Category : Teatro belga
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Author: Claude Debussy
Publisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 0714544965
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 99
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In this guide to Pelleas and Melisande, Maeterlinck's original play is reprinted in full, so that the opera lover can read the scenes that Debussy did not set to music. Hugh Macdonald's much praised English translation is published here for the first time, with an essay uncovering the musical roots of Pelleas and Melisande and illustrating its importance to the music of the twentieth century. Alain Raitt, author of several studies of symbolist writers, evaluates Maeterlinck's status as a dramatist, and Roger Nichols analyses the score. Proust's short pastiche of the opera and Arthur Symons's review of the first English performances challenge us to come to terms with this eternally intriguing masterpiece.Contents: Something Borrowed, Something New, Hugh Macdonald; A Musical Synopsis, Roger Nichols; Maeterlinck and the Theatre, Alan Raitt; Profound or Pretentious?, Nicholas John; Pelleas et Melisande: text by Maurice Maeterlinck; Pelleas and Melisande: English Translation by Hugh Macdonald
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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