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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
World Premieres
Author: First Nights
Author: Thomas Forrest KellyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300091052
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This lively book takes us back to the first performances of five famous musical compositions: Monteverdi's Orfeo in 1607, Handel's Messiah in 1742, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1824, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique in 1830, and Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps in 1913. Thomas Forrest Kelly sets the scene for each of these premieres, describing the cities in which they took place, the concert halls, audiences, conductors, and musicians, the sound of the music when it was first performed (often with instruments now extinct), and the popular and critical responses. He explores how performance styles and conditions have changed over the centuries and what music can reveal about the societies that produce it. Kelly tells us, for example, that Handel recruited musicians he didn't know to perform Messiah in a newly built hall in Dublin; that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was performed with a mixture of professional and amateur musicians after only three rehearsals; and that Berlioz was still buying strings for the violas and mutes for the violins on the day his symphony was first played. Kelly's narrative, which is enhanced by extracts from contemporary letters, press reports, account books, and other sources, as well as by a rich selection of illustrations, gives us a fresh appreciation of these five masterworks, encouraging us to sort out our own late twentieth-century expectations from what is inherent in the music.
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Author: Cannes
Author: Kieron CorlessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cannes Film Festival
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The essential companion to the controversial and glamorous film festival.
Honeyland
Author: Jaimie BaronPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100058643X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The fourth volume in the Docalogue series, this book explores the significance of the documentary Honeyland (2019) in relation to documentary ethics, the representation of human and animal relations, environmental studies, genre theory, and documentary distribution. The film, focused on a Turkish-speaking woman in Macedonia who cultivates bees to produce honey through an ancient and environmentally sustainable method, raises important questions about the place of humans and economic activity within the broader ecosystem. The documentary also prompts critical reflection about the relationship between observation and storytelling, how the film festival circuit allows certain films to reach a wide audience, the ethics of ethnographic representation, the relationship between human and insect life, and to what extent film can allow us to experience others’ life-worlds. By combining five distinct critical perspectives on a single documentary, this book acts both as an intensive scholarly treatment of the film and as a guide for how to analyze, theorize, and contextualize a documentary text. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of documentary studies, as well as those studying film and media more broadly.
The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians
Author: Oscar ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 2506
Book Description
Stories and Lessons from the World’s Leading Opera, Orchestra Librarians, and Music Archivists, Volume 1
Author: Patrick LoPublisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 180117654X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This volume contains two Open Access Chapters This collection explores the current trends and practices in the field of music performance librarianship. A helpful resource to librarians, and archivists in a variety of situations in the world of performing arts.
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description
Opera After the Zero Hour
Author: Emily Richmond PollockPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190063734
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
'Opera After the Zero Hour' argues that newly composed opera in West Germany after World War II was a site for the renegotiation of musical traditions during an era in which tradition had become politically fraught.
The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema
Author: Charlie KeilPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019049669X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 825
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema is a collection of new scholarship that investigates the first decades of motion-picture history from diverse perspectives and methodologies. Featuring over thirty essays by leading scholars in the field, the Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of cinema's earliest years while also illuminating how cinema derived strength from competing cultural forms, becoming in the process the most influential mass medium of the early twentieth century.