Author: James P. Cassaro
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113584660X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Gaetano Donizetti: A Research and Information Guide offers an annotated reference guide to the life and works of this important Italian opera composer. The book opens with a complete chronology of Donizetti's life (1797-1848) and career, relating it to contemporary events. The balance of the book details secondary resources and other works, including general sources, catalogs, correspondence, biographical sources, critical works; production/review sources, singers and theaters, and the individual operas.
Gaetano Donizetti
Author: James P. Cassaro
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113584660X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Gaetano Donizetti: A Research and Information Guide offers an annotated reference guide to the life and works of this important Italian opera composer. The book opens with a complete chronology of Donizetti's life (1797-1848) and career, relating it to contemporary events. The balance of the book details secondary resources and other works, including general sources, catalogs, correspondence, biographical sources, critical works; production/review sources, singers and theaters, and the individual operas.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113584660X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Gaetano Donizetti: A Research and Information Guide offers an annotated reference guide to the life and works of this important Italian opera composer. The book opens with a complete chronology of Donizetti's life (1797-1848) and career, relating it to contemporary events. The balance of the book details secondary resources and other works, including general sources, catalogs, correspondence, biographical sources, critical works; production/review sources, singers and theaters, and the individual operas.
“The” Harmonicon
Tempesta
Author: Clive McClelland
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498568025
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Tempesta is a term coined in this book applying to music that exhibits agitated or violent characteristics in order to evoke terror and chaos, involving ideas like rapid scale passages, driving rhythmic figurations, strong accents, full textures, and robust instrumentation including prominent brass and timpani. Music of this type was used for storm scenes, which in operas of the 17th and 18th centuries are almost invariably of supernatural origin, and other frightening experiences such as pursuit, madness, and rage. This ‘stormy’ music formed the ingredients of a particular style in the later 18th century that scholars in recent decades have referred to as Sturm und Drang, implying a relationship to German literature which I believe is unhelpful and misleading. Haydn’s so-called Sturm und Drang symphonies exhibit characteristics that are no different to his depictions of storms in his operas and sacred music, and there is no evidence of Haydn suffering some kind of personal crisis, or even of him responding to the ‘spirit of the age’. He was simply exploring the expressive possibilities of the style for dramatic/rhetorical effect. Scholars have been dissatisfied with the term for some time, but no-one has previously suggested an alternative. The term tempesta therefore applies to all manifestations of this kind of music, a label that acknowledges the ‘stormy’ origins of the style, but which also recognizes that it functions as a counterpart to ombra. Tempesta contributed enormously to the continued popularity of operas on supernatural subjects, and quickly migrated towards sacred music and even instrumental music, where it became part of the topical discourse. The music does not merely represent the supernatural, it instills an emotional response in the listener. Awe and terror had already been identified as sources of the sublime, notably by Edmund Burke (predating the German literary Sturm und Drang), and the latter half of the century saw the rise of Gothic literature. The supernatural remained popular in theaters and opera houses, and special music that could produce an emotional response of such magnitude was a powerful tool in the composer’s expressive armory.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498568025
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Tempesta is a term coined in this book applying to music that exhibits agitated or violent characteristics in order to evoke terror and chaos, involving ideas like rapid scale passages, driving rhythmic figurations, strong accents, full textures, and robust instrumentation including prominent brass and timpani. Music of this type was used for storm scenes, which in operas of the 17th and 18th centuries are almost invariably of supernatural origin, and other frightening experiences such as pursuit, madness, and rage. This ‘stormy’ music formed the ingredients of a particular style in the later 18th century that scholars in recent decades have referred to as Sturm und Drang, implying a relationship to German literature which I believe is unhelpful and misleading. Haydn’s so-called Sturm und Drang symphonies exhibit characteristics that are no different to his depictions of storms in his operas and sacred music, and there is no evidence of Haydn suffering some kind of personal crisis, or even of him responding to the ‘spirit of the age’. He was simply exploring the expressive possibilities of the style for dramatic/rhetorical effect. Scholars have been dissatisfied with the term for some time, but no-one has previously suggested an alternative. The term tempesta therefore applies to all manifestations of this kind of music, a label that acknowledges the ‘stormy’ origins of the style, but which also recognizes that it functions as a counterpart to ombra. Tempesta contributed enormously to the continued popularity of operas on supernatural subjects, and quickly migrated towards sacred music and even instrumental music, where it became part of the topical discourse. The music does not merely represent the supernatural, it instills an emotional response in the listener. Awe and terror had already been identified as sources of the sublime, notably by Edmund Burke (predating the German literary Sturm und Drang), and the latter half of the century saw the rise of Gothic literature. The supernatural remained popular in theaters and opera houses, and special music that could produce an emotional response of such magnitude was a powerful tool in the composer’s expressive armory.
Dictionary-catalogue of Operas and Operettas which Have Been Performed on the Public Stage
Author: John Towers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
Opera Librettists and Their Works
The Harmonicon
Author: William Ayrton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Felice Romani
Author: Andrea Sommariva
Publisher: Olschki
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : it
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher: Olschki
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : it
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Culture of the Europeans
Author: Donald Sassoon
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1664
Book Description
"This wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite activity to a mass market - from lending libraries to the internet, from the first public concerts to music downloads."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1664
Book Description
"This wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite activity to a mass market - from lending libraries to the internet, from the first public concerts to music downloads."--BOOK JACKET.
Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung
Author: Beverly J. Sing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf den österreichischen Kaiserstaat
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf den österreichischen Kaiserstaat
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Gramophone
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Audio equipment industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Audio equipment industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description