Author: Dutton CookPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385335507
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
On the Stage. Studies of Theatrical History and The Actor's Art
Author: Dutton CookPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385335507
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Nation
Author: Book-lover
Author: The Book Lover
Author: Our Recent Actors
Author: Westland MarstonPublisher: London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York
Author: Michael V. PisaniPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 160938265X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre—accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Lady Audley’s Secret, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, as well as historical romances by Shakespeare and Schiller—than they did in almost any other area of their lives. But unlike film music, theatrical music has received very little attention from scholars and so it has been largely lost to us. In this groundbreaking study, Michael V. Pisani goes in search of these abandoned sounds. Mining old manuscripts and newspapers, he finds that starting in the 1790s, theatrical managers in Britain and the United States began to rely on music to play an interpretive role in melodramatic productions. During the nineteenth century, instrumental music—in addition to song—was a common feature in the production of stage plays. The music played by instrumental ensembles not only enlivened performances but also served other important functions. Many actors and actresses found that accompanimental music helped them sustain the emotional pitch of a monologue or dialogue sequence. Music also helped audiences to identify the motivations of characters. Playwrights used music to hold together the hybrid elements of melodrama, heighten the build toward sensation, and dignify the tragic pathos of villains and other characters. Music also aided manager-directors by providing cues for lighting and other stage effects. Moreover, in a century of seismic social and economic changes, music could provide a moral compass in an uncertain moral universe. Featuring dozens of musical examples and images of the old theatres, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre charts the progress of the genre from its earliest use in the eighteenth century to the elaborate stage productions of the very early twentieth century.
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author: Everyone’s Theater
Author: Michael MeeuwisPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472125796
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Nearly all residents of England and its colonies between 1860 and 1914 were active theatergoers, and many participated in the amateur theatricals that defined late Victorian life. The Victorian theater was not an abstract figuration of the world as a stage, but a media system enmeshed in mass lived experience that fulfilled in actuality the concept of a theatergoing nation. Everyone’s Theater turns to local history, the words of everyday Victorians found in their diaries and production records, to recover this lost chapter of theater history in which amateur drama domesticates the stage. Professional actors and playwrights struggled to make their productions compatible with ideas and techniques that could be safely reproduced in the home—and in amateur performances from Canada to India. This became the first true English national theater: a society whose myriad classes found common ground in theatrical display. Everyone’s Theater provides new ways to extend Victorian literature into the dimension of voice, sound, and embodiment, and to appreciate the pleasures of Victorian theatricality.
Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description