Author: Alessandro ScarlattiPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674640313
Category : Maximus, Marcus Clodius Pupienus, 238
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Massimo Puppieno
Author: Alessandro ScarlattiPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674640313
Category : Maximus, Marcus Clodius Pupienus, 238
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A Companion to Music at the Habsburg Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004435034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
A Companion to Music at the Habsburgs Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, edited by Andrew H. Weaver, is the first in-depth survey of Habsburg musical patronage over a broad timeframe. Bringing together existing research and drawing upon primary sources, the authors, all established experts, provide overviews of the musical institutions, the functions of music, the styles and genres cultivated, and the historical, political, and cultural contexts for music at the Habsburg courts. The wide geographical scope includes the imperial courts in Vienna and Prague, the royal court in Madrid, the archducal courts in Graz and Innsbruck, and others. This broad view of Habsburg musical activities affirms the dynasty’s unique position in the cultural life of early modern Europe. Contributors are Lawrence Bennett, Charles E. Brewer, Drew Edward Davies, Paula Sutter Fichtner, Alexander J. Fisher, Christine Getz, Beth L. Glixon, Jeffrey Kurtzman, Virginia Christy Lamothe, Honey Meconi, Sara Pecknold, Jonas Pfohl, Pablo L. Rodríguez, Steven Saunders, Herbert Seifert, Louise K. Stein, and Andrew H. Weaver.
Dictionary-catalogue of Operas and Operettas which Have Been Performed on the Public Stage
Author: Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250–1750
Author: Anthony M. CummingsPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226822796
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
A comprehensive account of music in Florence from the late Middle Ages until the end of the Medici dynasty in the mid-eighteenth century. Florence is justly celebrated as one of the world’s most important cities. It enjoys mythic status and occupies an enviable place in the historical imagination. But its musico-historical importance is not as well understood as it should be. If Florence was the city of Dante, Michelangelo, and Galileo, it was also the birthplace of the madrigal, opera, and the piano. Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250–1750 recounts Florence’s principal contributions to music and the history of how music was heard and cultivated in the city, from civic and religious institutions to private patronage and the academies. This book is an invaluable complement to studies of the art, literature, and political thought of the late-medieval and early-modern eras and the quasi-legendary figures in the Florentine cultural pantheon.
Opera and Vivaldi
Author: Michael CollinsPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 147730066X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
From the New York Times review of the Dallas Opera's performance of Orlando furioso and the international symposium on Baroque opera: ". . . it was a serious, thoughtful, consistent and imaginative realization of a beautiful, long-neglected work, one that fully deserved all the loving attention it received. As such, the production and its attendant symposium made a positive contribution to the cause of Baroque opera . . . . " Baroque opera experienced a revival in the late twentieth century. Its popularity, however, has given rise to a number of perplexing and exciting questions regarding literary sources, librettos, theater design, set design, stage movement, and costumes—even the editing of the operas. In 1980, the Dallas Opera produced the American premier of Vivaldi's Orlando furioso, which met with much acclaim. Concurrently an international symposium on the subject of Baroque opera was held at Southern Methodist University. Authorities from around the world met to discuss the operatic works of Vivaldi, Handel, and other Baroque composers as well as the characteristics of the genre. Michael Collins and Elise Kirk, deputy chair and chair of the symposium, edited the papers to produce this groundbreaking study, which will be of great interest to music scholars and opera lovers throughout the world. Contributors to Opera and Vivaldi include Shirley Wynne, John Walter Hill, Andrew Porter, Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Howard Mayer Brown, William Holmes, Ellen Rosand, and the editors.
Alessandro Scarlatti
Author: Edward Joseph DentPublisher: London : E. Arnold
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Italian Opera
Author: David R. B. KimbellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466431
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
David Kimbell traces the history of Italian opera from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.
A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760
Author: Eleanor Selfridge-FieldPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804744379
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
From 1637 to the middle of the eighteenth century, Venice was the world center for operatic activity. No exact chronology of the Venetian stage during this period has previously existed in any language. This reference work, the culmination of two decades of research throughout Europe, provides a secure ordering of 800 operas and 650 related works from the period 1660 to 1760. Derived from thousands of manuscript news-sheets and other unpublished materials, the Chronology provides a wealth of new information on about 1500 works. Each entry in this production-based survey provides not only perfunctory reference information but also a synopsis of the text, eyewitness accounts, and pointers to surviving musical scores. What emerges, in addition to secure dates, is a profusion of new information about events, personalities, patronage, and the response of opera to changing political and social dynamics. Appendixes and supplements provide basic information in Venetian history for music, drama, and theater scholars who are not specialists in Italian studies.
Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti
Author: Carole Franklin VidaliPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780824059422
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Essays on Handel and Italian Opera
Author: Reinhard StrohmPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521088350
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Reinhard Strohm examines the relationship between Handel's great operas and the earlier European Baroque tradition.