Author: Clarisse JuranvillePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 312
Book Description
Voyage au pays des merveilles, par Mlle Clarisse Juranville
Author: Clarisse JuranvilleReading Opera
Author: Arthur GroosPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140085959X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
"Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera," writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approaches to that much-maligned genre. To examine, and to challenge, the long-standing prejudice against libretti and the scholarly tradition that has, until recently, reiterated it, Groos and Roger Parker have commissioned thirteen stimulating essays by musicologists, literary critics, and historians. Taken as a whole, the volume demonstrates that libretti are now very much within the purview of contemporary humanistic scholarship. Libretti pose questions of intertextuality, transposition of genre, and reception history. They invite a broad spectrum of contemporary reading strategies ranging from the formalistic to the feminist. And as texts for music they raise issues in the relation between the two mediums and their respective traditions. Reading Opera will be of value to anyone with a serious interest in opera and contemporary opera criticism. The essays cover the period from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on works of the later nineteenth century. The contributors are Carolyn Abbate, William Ashbrook, Katherine Bergeron, Caryl Emerson, Nelly Furman, Sander L. Gilman, Arthur Groos, James A. Hepokoski, Jurgen Maehder, Roger Parker, Paul Robinson, Christopher Wintle, and Susan Youens. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Nation's Image
Author: Jane FulcherPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521529433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Professor Fulcher argues that French grand opera was a subtly used tool of the state.
Lourdes
Author: Ruth HarrisPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014188990X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Lourdes was at the very centre of nineteenth century debates on religion, science and medicine. Both the Church and secularists championed the 'miracle' town as crucial in shaping how society should think about the mind, body and spirit. Since the ‘visions’ of Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 transformed the quiet Pyrenean town into an international tourist and pilgrimage destination, it has been a site for controversy. In her well-crafted and carefully researched book, Harris deftly places Lourdes and its attendant spiritual movement firmly at the centre of French history and shows its significance in the country’s development.
En Travesti
Author: Corinne E. BlackmerPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231102690
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
En Travesti addresses the ways in which opera empowers women by challenging conventional gender hierarchies. Terry Castle, Helene Cixous, Lowell Gallagher and Elizabeth Wood are among the contributors. Includes 20 musical examples.
A New Life of Jesus. Authorized Translation
Author: David Friedrich StraussPublisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Musicology and Difference
Author: Ruth A. SoliePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520916506
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from twelfth-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality. Musicology and Difference brings together some of the freshest and most challenging voices in musicology today on a question of importance to all the humanistic disciplines.
French Opera at the Fin de Siècle
Author: Steven HuebnerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199719921
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven Huebner gives an accessible and colorful account of such operatic favorites as Manon and Werther by Massenet, Louise by Charpentier, and lesser-known gems such as Chabrier's Le Roi malgré lui and Chausson's Le Roi Arthus.
The Urbanization of Opera
Author: Anselm GerhardPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226288574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Why do so many operas end in suicide, murder, and death? Why do many characters in large-scale operas exhibit neurotic behaviors worthy of psychoanalysis? Why are the legendary grands operas - much celebrated in their time - so seldom performed today?
Opera, the Extravagant Art
Author: Herbert LindenbergerPublisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Discusses the formal relations between opera and drama, aesthetic representation, the portrayal of opera in novels, and cultural attitudes toward opera.