Author: George Frideric HandelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Jephta
Author: George Frideric HandelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Trials of Slavery
Author: Nigel WordenPublisher: Van Riebeeck Society, The
ISBN: 9780958452236
Category : Cape of Good Hope
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Jephtas Gelüdbe Oper in drei Aufzügen
Author: Robert Ignatius LetellierPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144380097X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Meyerbeer’s first opera, Jephtas Gelübde, has a libretto by the German academic Alois Schreiber, based on a Biblical theme taken from chapters 11-12 of the Book of Judges. The conflict between paternal love and love of country intrinsic to this scenario was also chosen by Meyerbeer as the basic theme of his opera, and is reflected in the overture, a symphonic anticipation of the essential features of the action. The opera, whose final rehearsals were conducted by the composer in person, was admirably produced by the Munich Court Opera on 23 December 1812, but on account of its novelty met with indifference, so that it was withdrawn. A newspaper report did, however, observe: “A delicate sensibility, united to a profound and mature insight into the workings of the impassioned human heart, is manifested throughout in a grand and elevated style that gives promise of something great in the future.” This score contains the seeds of the whole of Meyerbeer’s future development. It is impossible to conceive of Meyerbeer's progress to mastership without the Jephta score. Meyerbeer was responding to the heritage of his predecessors—the Handel of the oratorios (in the depiction of grandiose biblical drama), and the Gluck of the tragédie lyrique (in the depth of both public and private emotional exploration), but also alert to issues in contemporary opera, like the Rescus Motif and development of the villain. There is also evidence of Meyerbeer’s famed orchestral virtuosity and imagination already at work. In his psychological exploration, Meyerbeer already begins to use thematic tagging and forshadowing most imaginatively, and points the way far beyond Gluck, in the direction of Weber-Wagner.
Jephthah and His Daughter
Author: Wilbur Owen SypherdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
Author: Mark StarrPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443870242
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Meyerbeer's first opera, Jephtas Gelübde, has a libretto by the German academic Alois Schreiber, based on a Biblical theme taken from chapters 11-12 of the Book of Judges. The story centres on the vow the ancient Israelite Judge made to God in return for victory over the enemy: ""If thou wilt give the Ammonites into my hand, then whatever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious . . . I will offer him up for a burnt offering"". The first person he was fatefull...
The Briny South
Author: Nienke BoerPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478024208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
In The Briny South Nienke Boer examines the legal and literary narratives of enslaved, indentured, and imprisoned individuals crossing the Indian Ocean to analyze the formation of racialized identities in the imperial world. Drawing on court records, ledgers, pamphlets, censors’ reports, newsletters, folk songs, memoirs, and South African and South Asian works of fiction and autobiography, Boer theorizes the role of sentiment and the depiction of emotions in the construction of identities of displaced peoples across the Indian Ocean. From Dutch East India Company rule in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to early apartheid South Africa, Boer shows how colonial powers and settler states mediated and manipulated subaltern expressions of emotion as a way to silence racialized subjects and portray them as inarticulately suffering. In this way, sentiment operated in favor of the powerful rather than as an oppositional weapon of the subaltern. By tracing the entwinement of displacement, race, and sentiment, Boer frames the Indian Ocean as a site of subjectification with a long history of transnational connection—and exploitation.
Grisha
Author: M. BartleyPublisher: Otis Mountain Press
ISBN: 0976002302
Category : Cellists
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
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