Author: Alfred BatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Includes selections, epitomes, outlines of dramas, and some entire plays.
Drama and Opera: German drama
Author: Alfred BatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Includes selections, epitomes, outlines of dramas, and some entire plays.
Drama and Opera: German drama
Author: Opera and Drama
Author: Richard WagnerPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297654
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera and Drama outlines a new, revolutionary type of musical stage work, which would finally materialize as The Ring of the Nibelung. Wagner's music drama, as he called it, aimed at a union of poetry, drama, music, and stagecraft. ø In a rare book-length study, the composer discusses the enhancement of dramas by operatic treatment and the subjects that make the best dramas. The expected Wagnerian voltage is here: in his thinking about myths such as Oedipus, his theories about operatic goals and musical possibilities, his contempt for musical politics, his exaltation of feeling and fantasy, his reflections about genius, and his recasting of Schopenhauer. ø This edition includes the full text of volume 2 of William Ashton Ellis's 1893 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.
Drama and Opera: Italian drama
Author: Drama and Opera: German drama
Author: Alfred BatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Includes selections, epitomes, outlines of dramas, and some entire plays.
Modern Drama and Opera
Author: The History of the Chorus in the German Drama
Author: Elsie Winifred HalmrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German drama
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Brecht at the Opera
Author: Joy H. CalicoPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520314263
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
From an award-winning author, the first thorough examination of the important influence of opera on Brecht’s writings. Brecht at the Opera looks at the German playwright's lifelong ambivalent engagement with opera. An ardent opera lover in his youth, Brecht later denounced the genre as decadent and irrelevant to modern society even as he continued to work on opera projects throughout his career. He completed three operas and attempted two dozen more with composers such as Kurt Weill, Paul Hindemith, Hanns Eisler, and Paul Dessau. Joy H. Calico argues that Brecht's simultaneous work on opera and Lehrstück in the 1920s generated the new concept of audience experience that would come to define epic theater, and that his revisions to the theory of Gestus in the mid-1930s are reminiscent of nineteenth-century opera performance practices of mimesis.
Judaism in Music and Other Essays
Author: Richard WagnerPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297661
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Musical genius, polemicist, explosive personality-that was the nineteenth-century German composer Richard Wagner, who paid as much attention to his reputation as to his genius. Often maddening, and sometimes called mad, Wagner wrote with the same intensity that characterized his music. The letters and essays collected in Judaism in Music and Other Essays were published during the 1850s and 1860s, the period when he was chiefly occupied with the creation of The Ring of the Nibelung. Highlighting this collection is the notorious 1850 article "Judaism in Music, " which caused such a firestorm that nearly twenty years later Wagner published an unapologetic appendix. Other prose pieces include "On the Performing of Tannhauser, " written while he was in political exile; "On Musical Criticism, " an appeal for a more vital approach to art undivorced from life; and "Music of the Future." This volume concludes with letters to friends about the intent and performance of his great operas; estimations of Liszt, Beethoven, Mozart, Gluck, Berlioz, and others; and suggestions for the reform of opera houses in Vienna, Paris, and Zurich. The Bison Book edition includes the full text of volume 3 of William Ashton Ellis's 1894 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.
The History of the Chorus in the German Drama
Author: Elsie Winifred HelmrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German drama
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description