The Arcadians

The Arcadians PDF Author: Lionel Monckton
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Category : Musical revues, comedies, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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The Arcadians

The Arcadians PDF Author: Lionel Monckton
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Category : Musical revues, comedies, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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The Play Pictorial

The Play Pictorial PDF Author:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Music in the Public Library of the City of Boston

Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Music in the Public Library of the City of Boston PDF Author: Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Operetta

Operetta PDF Author: Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443885088
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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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 Era Almanack

The Era Almanack PDF Author:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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The Musical, Second Edition

The Musical, Second Edition PDF Author: Kurt Gänzl
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438487525
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 610

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The Musical, Second Edition, introduces students and general readers to the entire scope of the history of musical theater, from eighteenth-century ballad operas to nineteenth-century operettas, to the Golden Age of Broadway to today. In this comprehensive history, master theater historian Kurt Gänzl draws on his vast knowledge of the productions, the actors, the music and dance, and the reception of the central repertory of the musical theater. Focus boxes on key shows are included in every chapter, along with a chronology of the major musical productions described in the text. Production photographs from around the world enhance the descriptions of the costumes and staging. This book is an ideal introduction for college-level courses on the History of Musical Theater and will also appeal to the general theatergoer who wants to learn more about how today’s musical developed from its earliest roots.

The Era Annual

The Era Annual PDF Author:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 768

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Blumenfeld's Dictionary of Musical Theater

Blumenfeld's Dictionary of Musical Theater PDF Author: Robert Blumenfeld
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 0879103728
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 419

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Have you heard of the first American musical, "The Black Crook", which opened in 1866 and had fifteen revivals? Its chorus of ladies in pink tights was a sensation! Do you know Oscar Straus' hilarious parody of Wagner's Ring cycle, "Die lustigen Nibelungen" ("The Merry Nibelungs")? Do you know who the Ricci brothers, the Piccinni family, Edmond Audran, David Braham, or Francois-Joseph Gossec were? Look them up in this remarkable, thoroughly researched, lively book. Packed with nuggets of useful and fascinating information, with nearly 1,800 entries, this is a must-have research tool and handy reference for the theater and music lover, student, teacher, professional singer, director, and producer. Meant as a supplement and companion to Blumenfeld's "Dictionary of Acting and Show Business" (Limelight, 2009), this unique dictionary is chock-full of information about all the various genres of musical theater; thumbnail plot summaries of many well-known and some more obscure works; thumbnail biographies of composers and writers; and, dance, theatrical, and music terminology. Historical terms and foreign terms (with pronunciations) are included, along with information on available recordings of many obscure pieces. Convenient lists of the works of Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Gilbert and Sullivan, Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and many others are provided.

The Era Almanack, Dramatic & Musical

The Era Almanack, Dramatic & Musical PDF Author: Edward Ledger
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Category : Actors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Cambridge Public Library Bulletin

Cambridge Public Library Bulletin PDF Author:
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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