Author: Michael R. BoothPublisher:
ISBN: 9780198124658
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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English Plays of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Michael R. BoothPublisher:
ISBN: 9780198124658
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
English Plays of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Michael R. BoothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages :
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Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York
Author: Michael V. PisaniPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609382307
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre—accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Lady Audley’s Secret, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, as well as historical romances by Shakespeare and Schiller—than they did in almost any other area of their lives. But unlike film music, theatrical music has received very little attention from scholars and so it has been largely lost to us. In this groundbreaking study, Michael V. Pisani goes in search of these abandoned sounds. Mining old manuscripts and newspapers, he finds that starting in the 1790s, theatrical managers in Britain and the United States began to rely on music to play an interpretive role in melodramatic productions. During the nineteenth century, instrumental music—in addition to song—was a common feature in the production of stage plays. The music played by instrumental ensembles not only enlivened performances but also served other important functions. Many actors and actresses found that accompanimental music helped them sustain the emotional pitch of a monologue or dialogue sequence. Music also helped audiences to identify the motivations of characters. Playwrights used music to hold together the hybrid elements of melodrama, heighten the build toward sensation, and dignify the tragic pathos of villains and other characters. Music also aided manager-directors by providing cues for lighting and other stage effects. Moreover, in a century of seismic social and economic changes, music could provide a moral compass in an uncertain moral universe. Featuring dozens of musical examples and images of the old theatres, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre charts the progress of the genre from its earliest use in the eighteenth century to the elaborate stage productions of the very early twentieth century.
English Plays of the Nineteenth Century
Author: William BroughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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English Plays of the 19th Century
Author: Michael Richard BoothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 427
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The Performing Century
Author: T. DavisPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230589480
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to the representation of economics to the work of a parliamentary committee in regulating theatres, the authors redefine what theatre and performance in the Nineteenth century might be.
19th Century English Plays
Author: English Plays of the 19th Century
Author: Michael Richard BoothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
English Plays of the 19th Century
Author: Michael Richard BoothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Nineteenth-century British Drama
Author: Leonard R. N. AshleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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