![Fenella, ossia, La Muta di Portici. Melodramma in quattro parti [and in verse], da rappresentarsi nel ... Teatro La Fenice il carnovale dall'anno 1831, etc. [Adapted from “La Muette de Portici” by A. E. Scribe and G. Delavigne.] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/DqZWAAAAcAAJ?fife=w150-h200)
Author: Gaetano ROSSI (Dramatist.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Fenella, ossia, La Muta di Portici. Melodramma in quattro parti [and in verse], da rappresentarsi nel ... Teatro La Fenice il carnovale dall'anno 1831, etc. [Adapted from “La Muette de Portici” by A. E. Scribe and G. Delavigne.]
![Fenella, ossia, La Muta di Portici. Melodramma in quattro parti [and in verse], da rappresentarsi nel ... Teatro La Fenice il carnovale dall'anno 1831, etc. [Adapted from “La Muette de Portici” by A. E. Scribe and G. Delavigne.] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/DqZWAAAAcAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Gaetano ROSSI (Dramatist.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Beyond Fingal's Cave
Author: James PorterPublisher:
ISBN: 1580469450
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Demonstrates the profound impact of The Poems of Ossian on composers of the Romantic Era and later: Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Massenet, and many others. Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination is the first study in English of musical compositions inspired by the poems published in the 1760s and attributed to a purported ancient Scottish bard named Ossian. From around 1780 onwards, the poems stimulated poets, artists, and composers in Europe as well as North America to break away from the formality of the Enlightenment. The admiration for Ossian's poems -shared by Napoleon, Goethe, and Thomas Jefferson - was an important stimulus in the development of Romanticism and the music that was a central part of it. More important still was the view of the German cultural philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder, who saw past the controversy over the poems' authenticity to the traditional elements in these heroic poems and their mood of lament. James Porter's long-awaited book traces the traditional sources used by James Macpherson for his epoch-making prose poems and examines crucial works by composers such as Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Massenet. Many other relatively unknown composers were also moved to write operas, cantatas, songs, and instrumental pieces, some of which have proven to be powerfully evocative and well worth performing and recording.
Dictionary-catalogue of Operas and Operettas which Have Been Performed on the Public Stage
Author: John TowersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
Opera Librettists and Their Works
Author: Opera Composers and Their Works: L-Q
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
A multi-volume set giving detailed information on every aspect of opera - over 100,000 entries. Improves on Steiger's Opernlexikon by including two additional data-categories for each work (language of text and literary sources) and by covering composers who have appeared since the end-date of Steiger's work (1934).
Catalogue
Author: J & J Lubrano (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Opera Premieres
Author: More Scott Operas
Author: Jerome MitchellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
More Scott Operas examines some thirty operas based on the novels and poems of Sir Walter Scott that have come to light since publication of the author's widely reviewed earlier book, The Walter Scott Operas (1977), which discussed fifty Scott operas. There are chapters on an operatic setting of a Scott poem by a little known English composer who knew Wagner; on three operatic renditions of another poem, The Lord of the Isles; on Carl Loewe's opera Emmy, based on Kenilworth, and on an opera by a twentieth century Argentine composer based on the same novel; on a forgotten Italian Fair Maid of Perth opera that would rival Bizet's; and on two chamber operas by a composer-librettist who is alive and well and at home in Charleston, South Carolina. The book concludes with an intriguing account of Scott's night at the San Carlo Opera. Mitchell's approach is again that of a literary-historian than of a music critic or musicologist. He shows what happened to Scott's original poem or novel when it is changed into an opera and how that opera compares with others based on the same poem or novel. This approach leads to a fresh slant on Scott's characters and on the structure of his works, and it leads ultimately to our greater awareness and appreciation of Scott's art and of his impact on European culture.
A Short History of Opera
Author: Donald J. GroutPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231507720
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1047
Book Description
When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have. The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day. A Short History of Opera examines not only the standard performance repertoire, but also works considered important for the genre's development. Its expanded scope investigates opera from Eastern European countries and Finland. The section on twentieth-century opera has been reorganized around national operatic traditions including a chapter devoted solely to opera in the United States, which incorporates material on the American musical and ties between classical opera and popular musical theater. A separate section on Chinese opera is also included. With an extensive multilanguage bibliography, more than one hundred musical examples, and stage illustrations, this authoritative one-volume survey will be invaluable to students and serious opera buffs. New fans will also find it highly accessible and informative. Extremely thorough in its coverage, A Short History of Opera is now more than ever the book to turn to for anyone who wants to know about the history of this art form.
Opera Premieres
Author: Charles H. ParsonsPublisher: Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
A multi-volume set giving detailed information on every aspect of opera - over 100,000 entries. Improves on Steiger's Opernlexikon by including two additional data-categories for each work (language of text and literary sources) and by covering composers who have appeared since the end-date of Steiger's work (1934).