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Author: Jacques Offenbach Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486494675 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 403
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The last of nearly 100 operettas created by the composer between 1850 and 1880, this three-act work debuted in 1881 and remains popular to this day for its many memorable melodies.
Author: Jacques Offenbach Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486494675 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 403
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The last of nearly 100 operettas created by the composer between 1850 and 1880, this three-act work debuted in 1881 and remains popular to this day for its many memorable melodies.
Author: John Yaffé Publisher: Scarecrow Press ISBN: 0810883147 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 550
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Conductors John Yaffé and David Daniels have created a one-stop sourcebook for orchestras, opera companies, conductors, and librarians who research and/or prepare programs of vocal excerpts—such as solos, ensembles, and choruses—for concert performance. In this book, readers will find detailed information on a vast repertoire of vocal pieces commonly extracted from operas, operettas, musicals, and oratorios—more than 1,750 excerpts from 450 parent works. Modeled on Daniels’ Orchestral Music, Arias, Ensembles, & Choruses includes basic historical details about each parent work as well as extract titles, subtitles, voice types, keys, durations, locations in the original work (with page numbers in both full scores and piano-vocal scores), and exact instrumentation. It also lists the publishers that make available the orchestral materials for just the excerpt being programmed, independent of the full parent work. Until now, conductors and orchestra librarians commonly had to first leaf through full scores, searching for one elusive three-minute aria after another, only to then consult multiple publishers' catalogues to compile crucial information on all the excerpts proposed for a concert or recording. This book constitutes a single source for finding that information. In many cases, the individual entries include valuable insider information on common performance practice, including start- and stop-points, transpositions, and conventional cuts. Searching for repertoire is made easy with the detailed title index and appendixes devoted to ensemble excerpts, all categorized by personnel (e.g., duets, trios, quartets, quintets, sextets, choruses) and language (Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Russian). This book is the ideal tool for the working conductor and orchestral librarian, as well as music program directors at colleges and conservatories, opera companies, and symphony orchestras. As of October 2015, a new printing of this book has occurred to correct errors in the index. A PDF version of the new index is available to previous purchasers of the volume. Please contact Rowman & Littlefield's music editor for assistance.
Author: Heather Hadlock Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691170851 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 175
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In a lively exploration of Jacques Offenbach's final masterpiece, Heather Hadlock shows how Les Contes d'Hoffmann summed up not only the composer's career but also a century of Romantic culture. A strange fusion of irony and profundity, frivolity and nightmare, the opera unfolds as a series of dreamlike episodes, peopled by such archetypes as the Poet, the Beautiful Dying Girl, the Automaton, the Courtesan, and the Mesmerist. Hadlock shows how these episodes comprise a collective unconscious. Her analyses touch on topics ranging from the self-reflexive style of the protagonist and the music, to parallels between nineteenth-century discourses of theater and medical science, to fascination with the hysterical female subject. Les Contes d'Hoffmann is also examined as both a continuation and a retraction of tendencies in Offenbach's earlier operettas and opéra-comiques. Hadlock investigates the political climate of the 1870s that influenced the composer's vision and the reception of his last work. Drawing upon insights from feminist, literary, and cultural theory, she considers how the opera's music and libretto took shape within a complex literary and theatrical tradition. Finally, Hadlock ponders the enigmas posed by the score of this unfinished opera, which has been completed many times and by many different hands since its composer's death shortly before the premiere in 1881. In this book, the "mad loves" that drive Les Contes d'Hoffmann--a poet's love, a daughter's love, erotic love, and fatal attraction to music--become figures for the fascination exercised by opera itself.
Author: Jacques Offenbach Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781499650594 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 398
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Title: Les Contes d'Hoffmann Composer: Jacques Offenbach Original Publisher: Choudens The complete score to Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) as originally published by Choudens in 1907 and completed by Ernest Guiraud. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project. These are out of print or historical editions, which we clean, straighten, touch up, and digitally reprint. Due to the age of original documents, you may find occasional blemishes, damage, or skewing of print. While we do extensive cleaning and editing to improve the image quality, some items are not able to be repaired. A portion of each book sold is donated to small performing arts organizations to create jobs for performers and to encourage audience growth.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 0
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Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) was written betweem 1876 and 1880 and is the final work composed by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), who died four months before the premiere, a fear that Offenbach expressed from a premonition, writing to impressario Léon Carvalho, Hurry up and stage my opera. I have not much time left, and my only wish is to attend the opening night." The opéra fantastique is in five acts (originally in four acts in the Ernest Guiraud completion), with a Prologue and an Epilogue acting as bookends and the stories' framing device. The plot, based on a similarly named play by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, tells of the poet Hoffmann and his love for a prima donna named Stella, while the poetry Muse, under the guise of Hoffmann's friend Nicklausse, attempts to regain his attention and abandon all other loves. An evil Nemesis named Councillor Lindorf, seeks to keep Hoffmann from the prima donna so that he can have her for himself, and asks Hoffmann to tell the crowd in a tavern the stories of his three great loves: Olympia, the automaton (Act 1); Antonia, the singer (Act 2); and Giulietta, the courtesan (Act 3). All three loves represent different aspects of Stella, the Nemesis plays a role in each as a different enemy to Hoffmann's love, and the Muse as Nicklausse tries to help Hoffmann in each. An abridged performance occurred at Offenbach's house on May 18, 1879, but the full premiere of the Guiraud four-act version took place on February 10, 1881, at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, Jules Danbé conducting. The five-act version most-performed today per Offenbach's intent was published finally in 1907. The Intermezzo and Barcarolle (Intermède et Barcarolle) occurs at the beginning of what is now considered Act 4, the Giulietta act, and is a duet for Giulietta and Nicklausse titled Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour. This concert version for orchestra only was completed by Ernest Guiraud. Instrumentation: 2(2nd dPicc).2.2.2: 4.0+2Crnt.3.0: Perc(2-4): Hp: Str (9-8-7-6-5 in set)."
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