Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Munsey's Magazine
Author: Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: The Last Waltz
Author: John SuchetPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250094119
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Originally published: London: Elliott and Thompson Limited, 2015.
Operetta
Author: Robert Ignatius LetellierPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443884251
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Operetta developed in the second half of the 19th century from the French opéra-comique and the more lighthearted German Singspiel. As the century progressed, the serious concerns of mainstream opera were sustained and intensified, leaving a gap between opéra-comique and vaudeville that necessitated a new type of stage work. Jacques Offenbach, son of a Cologne synagogue cantor, established himself in Paris with his series of opéras-bouffes. The popular success of this individual new form of entertainment light, humorous, satirical and also sentimental led to the emergence of operetta as a separate genre, an art form with its own special flavour and concerns, and no longer simply a "little opera". Attempts to emulate Offenbach's success in France and abroad generated other national schools of operetta and helped to establish the genre internationally, in Spain, in England, and especially in Austria Hungary. Here it inspired works by Franz von Suppé and Johann Strauss II (the Golden Age), and later Franz Lehár and Emmerich Kálmán (the Silver Age). Viennese operetta flourished conterminously with the Habsburg Empire and the mystique of Vienna, but, after the First World War, an artistically vibrant Berlin assumed this leading position (with Paul Lincke, Leon Jessel and Edouard Künnecke). As popular musical tastes diverged more and more during the interwar years, with the advent of new influences—like those of cabaret, the revue, jazz, modern dance music and the cinema, as well as changing social mores—the operetta genre took on new guises. This was especially manifested in the musical comedy of London's West End and New York's Broadway, with their imitators generating a success that opened a new golden age for the reinvented genre, especially after the Second World War. This source book presents an overview of the operetta genre in all its forms. The first volume provides an introduction, a representative chronology of the genre from 1840 to 2013, and a survey of the national schools of France and Austria-Hungary. The principal composers are considered in chronological sequence, with biographical material and a list of stage works, selected synopses and some commentary.
Fundamentals of Musical Art
Author: Operetta
Author: Richard TraubnerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135887829
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 905
Book Description
"Operetta: A Theatrical History" is considered the classic history of this important musical theater form. Traubner's book, first published in 1983, is still recognized as the key history of the people and productions that made operetta a worldwide phenomenon. Beginning in mid-19th century Europe, the book covers all of the key developments in the form, including the landmark works by Strauss and his followers, Gilbert & Sullivan, Franz Lehar, Rudolf Friml, Victor Herbert, and many more. The book perfectly captures the champagne-and-ballroom atmosphere of the greatest works in the genre. It will appeal to all fans of musical theatre history.
Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Masters in Music
Author: Music and Youth
Author: Stokes' Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians
Author: Leander Jan De BekkerPublisher: New York ; A. Stokes Company
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description