Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Enjoyment of Opera (II).
The Enjoyment of Opera
Author: Peter SchofieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music appreciation
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Enjoyment of Opera
Author: Alan BlythPublisher:
ISBN: 9780193210509
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Joy of Opera
Author: Nigel DouglasPublisher:
ISBN: 9780233000053
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
2000 publication by Andre Deutsch and is distributed by Trafalgar Square. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Black Opera
Author: Mary GentlePublisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 9780575083516
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Conrad Scalese is a writer of librettos for operas in a world where music has immense power. In the Church, the sung mass can bring about actual miracles like healing the sick. Opera is musicodrama, the highest form of music combined with human emotion, and the results of the passion it engenders can be nothing short of magical. In this world of miracles, Conrad is an atheist - he sees the same phenomena, but sees no need to attribute them to a Deity ... until his first really successful opera gets the opera-house struck by the lightning bolt of God's disapproval ... ... And Conrad comes to the attention of the Prince's Men, a powerful secret society, who are trying to use the magic of music to their own ends - in this case, an apocalyptic blood sacrifice. Life is about to get interesting for Conrad.
The Enjoyment of Theatre
Author: Kenneth M. CameronPublisher: Allyn & Bacon
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Enjoyment of Theatre'sbalanced coverage of performance and history provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to theatre. This book covers the full span of theatre's 2,500-year history as well as performance/production topics such as playwriting, acting, directing, and the theatre industry. Thisseventh editionfeatures major revisions and welcomes two highly respected collaborators from the University of South Carolina to the proven author team of Cameron and Gillespie. Together, they make theatre come alive for all readers by showing them how theatre is, and will continue to be, relevant to their everyday lives.
The Basis of Musical Pleasure
Author: Albert GehringPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emotions in music
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Opera Fanatic
Author: Claudio E. BenzecryPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226043428
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? Opera lovers are an intense lot, Benzecry discovers in his look at the fanatics who haunt the legendary Colón Opera House in Buenos Aires.
On Opera
Author: Bernard WilliamsPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300142285
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
A lifelong opera lover, Bernard Williams's articles and essays, talks for the BBC, contributions to the Grove Dictionary of Opera, and program notes for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the English National Opera, generated a devoted following. This volume brings together these widely scattered and largely unobtainable pieces, including two that have not been previously published. It covers an engaging range of topics from Mozart to Wagner, including essays on specific operas by those composers as well as Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, Debussy, Janacek, and Tippett. --From publisher's description.
The Enjoyment of Theatre
Author: Kenneth M. CameronPublisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
"The Enjoyment of Theatre's" balanced coverage of performance and history provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to theatre for both majors and non-majors. This text covers the full span of theatre's 2,500-year history as well as performance/production topics such as playwriting, acting, directing, and the theatre industry. The 6th Edition features major revisions while continuing to bring students the expertise of a proven author team--one whose strong academic credentials combine with a wealth of theatre experience. Cameron and Gillespie make theatre come alive for all students by showing them how theatre is, and will continue to be, relevant to their everyday lives. New and Notable Features: " Offers a balance of history and performance to give students a context for understanding today's theatre and the social impact of the theatre since its inception. Features two 16-page color inserts with new color photographs of Broadway productions by New York's finest theatrical photographers bringing Broadway to life for students. New and unique "Explore Theatre: A Backstage Pass" is a peer-to-peer, interactive, DVD learning tool (available in a free package with the text) developed by students for students under the direction of an award winning teacher of theatre. Seventeen major content areas (director, actor, costume designer, etc.) are covered, with an eye towards introducing students to the people and processes that make theatre happen. Emphasizes theatre's cultural and economic context in extensively revised chapters throughout the book, to sugest how forces outside the theatre influence it. Integrates material on world theatre throughout the text rather than discussing it in a separate chapter. Includes new "Story of the Play"discussions that summarize some of the great plays that are used as examples in the book for students.