Princeton Studies in Opera – serie
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17 produkter
Metaphysical Song
An Essay on Opera
Häftad, 1999
505 kr
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In this bold recasting of operatic history, Gary Tomlinson connects opera to shifting visions of metaphysics and selfhood across the last four hundred years. The operatic voice, he maintains, has always acted to open invisible, supersensible realms to the perceptions of its listeners. In doing so, …
Leonora's Last Act
Essays in Verdian Discourse
Inbunden, 1997
874 kr
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In these essays, Roger Parker brings a series of valuable insights to bear on Verdian analysis and criticism, and does so in a way that responds both to an opera-goer's love of musical drama and to a scholar's concern for recent critical trends. As he writes at one point: "opera challenges us by …
Unsung Voices
Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 1996
538 kr
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Who "speaks" to us in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in Wagner's operas, in a Mahler symphony? In asking this question, Carolyn Abbate opens nineteenth-century operas and instrumental works to new interpretations as she explores the voices projected by music. The nineteenth-century metaphor of music …
Puccini's Turandot
The End of the Great Tradition
Av William Ashbrook, Harold Powers
Häftad, 1991
591 kr
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Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, Turandot was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international repertory. In this colorful study two renowned music scholars demonstrate that this work, despite the modern climate in which it was written, was a …
Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen
The Dramaturgy of Disavowal
Häftad, 1999
462 kr
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This highly original book draws on narrative and film theory, psychoanalysis, and musicology to explore the relationship between aesthetics and anti-Semitism in two controversial landmarks in German culture. David Levin argues that Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Fritz …
Mad Loves
Women and Music in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Inbunden, 2000
1658 kr
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In a lively exploration of Jacques Offenbach's final masterpiece, Heather Hadlock shows how Les Contes d'Hoffmann summed up not only the composer's career but also a century of Romantic culture. A strange fusion of irony and profundity, frivolity and nightmare, the opera unfolds as a series of …
Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna
A Poetics of Entertainment
Av Mary Hunter
Inbunden, 1999
1307 kr
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Mozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now-popular operas has received little critical attention. In this richly detailed book, Mary Hunter offers a sweeping, synthetic …
Siren Songs
Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera
Häftad, 2000
833 kr
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It has long been argued that opera is all about sex. Siren Songs is the first collection of articles devoted to exploring the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. Here a distinguished and diverse group of …
In Search of Opera
Häftad, 2003
423 kr
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In her new book, Carolyn Abbate considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. Paying tribute to music's realization by musicians and singers, she argues that operatic works are indelibly bound to the contingency of …
Vocal Apparitions
The Attraction of Cinema to Opera
Inbunden, 2005
706 kr
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Cinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways. Vocal Apparitions tells the story of this fascinating intersection, interprets how it occurred, and explores what happens when opera is projected onto the medium of film. Michal Grover-Friedlander finds striking …
Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle
Av Marian Smith
Häftad, 2010
432 kr
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Marian Smith recaptures a rich period in French musical theater when ballet and opera were intimately connected. Focusing on the age of Giselle at the Paris Opera (from the 1830s through the 1840s), Smith offers an unprecedented look at the structural and thematic relationship between the two …
Mad Loves
Women and Music in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Häftad, 2016
245 kr
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In a lively exploration of Jacques Offenbach's final masterpiece, Heather Hadlock shows how Les Contes d'Hoffmann summed up not only the composer's career but also a century of Romantic culture. A strange fusion of irony and profundity, frivolity and nightmare, the opera unfolds as a series of …
Reading Opera
Av Arthur Groos, Roger L. Parker
Häftad, 2014
1083 kr
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"Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera," writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approaches to that much-maligned genre. To examine, and to challenge, the long-standing prejudice against libretti and the scholarly tradition that …
Monstrous Opera
Rameau and the Tragic Tradition
Av Charles Dill
Häftad, 2014
408 kr
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One of the foremost composers of the French Baroque operatic tradition, Rameau is often cited for his struggle to steer lyric tragedy away from its strict Lullian form, inspired by spoken tragedy, and toward a more expressive musical style. In this fresh exploration of Rameau's compositional …
Reading Opera
Av Arthur Groos, Roger L. Parker
Inbunden, 2016
2708 kr
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"Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera," writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approaches to that much-maligned genre. To examine, and to challenge, the long-standing prejudice against libretti and the scholarly tradition that …
Monstrous Opera
Rameau and the Tragic Tradition
Av Charles Dill
Inbunden, 2016
1555 kr
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One of the foremost composers of the French Baroque operatic tradition, Rameau is often cited for his struggle to steer lyric tragedy away from its strict Lullian form, inspired by spoken tragedy, and toward a more expressive musical style. In this fresh exploration of Rameau's compositional …
Wagner Androgyne
Inbunden, 2016
2768 kr
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That Wagner conceived of himself creatively as both man and woman is central to an understanding of his life and art. So argues Jean-Jacques Nattiez in this richly insightful work, where he draws from semiology, music criticism, and psychoanalysis to explore such topics as Wagner's theories of …
