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Author: CONTADINA.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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La Contadina in Corte, a Country Girl at Court; a new comic opera, as performed at the King's-Theatre in the Hay-Market, etc. [In verse.] Ital. & Eng
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Author: CONTADINA.La Contadina in corte ... The translation by Signor Povoleri. Ital. & Eng
Author: Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800
Author: Library of Congress. Music DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description
Mozart Studies
Author: Simon P. KeefePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521851025
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This volume comprises a series of essays on the life and works of Mozart.
Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: David Wyn JonesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351557416
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field looks at various aspects of musical life in eighteenth-century Britain. The significant roles played by institutions such as the Freemasons and foreign embassy chapels in promoting music making and introducing foreign styles to English music are examined, as well as the influence exerted by individuals, both foreign and British. The book covers the spectrum of British music, both sacred and secular, and both cosmopolitan and provincial. In doing so it helps to redress the picture of eighteenth-century British music which has previously portrayed Handel and London as its primary constituents.
Eighteenth-Century Transplantations
Author: Anna Paluchowska-MessingPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040132332
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
This collection studies eighteenth-century British literature as enmeshed within a dynamic intercultural traffic, participating in the import and export of literary and cultural forms. Eighteenth-Century Transplantations places this transcultural circulation at the centre of attention and presents its products in a unique configuration. Literary transplants into the British context, out of it, and their transmedial afterlives are set together in order to showcase the mechanisms of such cultural commerce. The term 'transplantation', borrowed from medical and horticultural discourses and evocative of eighteenth-century experiments in gardening, is offered here as a useful kinetic model to conceptualize the diverse practices involved in relocating a literary text into a new cultural environment.
Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Bates Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Ballet Music from the Mannheim Court, Part 1
Author: Floyd Kersey GravePublisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 089579330X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
"This edition presents for the first time most of the surviving ballet music performed at Mannheim in the 1760s and 1770s. Each ballet is complete and newly engraved in full score and includes an introduction to the music, translations of scenarios, and information on the sources, composers, ballet masters and other pertinent historical background"--Pref.
Ombra
Author: Clive McClellandPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739169742
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Ombra is the term which applies to an operatic scene involving the appearance of an oracle or demon, witches, or ghosts. Such scenes can be traced back to the early days of opera and were commonplace in the seventeenth century in Italy and France. Operas based on the legends of Orpheus, Iphigenia, and Alcestis provide numerous examples of ombra and extend well into the eighteenth century. Clive McClelland's Ombra: Supernatural Music in the Eighteenth Century is an in-depth examination of ombra and is many influences on classical music performance. McClelland reveals that ombra scenes proved popular with audiences not only because of the special stage effects employed, but also due to increasing use of awe-inspiring musical effects. By the end of the eighteenth century the scenes had come to be associated with an elaborate set of musical features including slow, sustained writing, the use of flat keys, angular melodic lines, chromaticism and dissonance, dotted rhythms and syncopation, tremolando effects, unexpected harmonic progressions, and unusual instrumentation, especially involving trombones. It is clearly distinct from other styles that exhibit some of these characteristics, such as the so-called 'Sturm und Drang' or 'Fantasia.' Futhermore, parallels can be drawn between these features and Edmund Burke's 'sublime of terror,' thus placing ombra music on an important position in the context of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory.
Opera on Stage
Author: Lorenzo BianconiPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226045919
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The History of Italian Opera marks the first time a team of expert scholars has worked together to investigate the Italian operatic tradition in its entirety, rather than limiting its focus to individual eras or major composers and their masterworks. Including both musicologists and historians of other arts, the contributors approach opera not only as a distinctive musical genre but also as a form of extravagant theater and a complex social phenomenon-resulting in the sort of panoramic view critical to a deep and fruitful understanding of the art. Opera on Stage, the second book of this multi-volume work to be published in English-in an expanded and updated version-focuses on staging and viewing Italian opera, from the court spectacles of the late sixteenth century to modern-day commercial productions. Mercedes Viale Ferrero describes the history of theater and stage design, detailing the evolution of the art well into the twentieth century. Gerardo Guccini does the same for stage and opera direction and the development of the director's role as an autonomous creative force. Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell discusses the interrelationships between theatrical ballet and Italian opera, from the age of Venetian opera to the early twentieth century. The visual emphasis of all three contributions is supplemented by over one hundred illustrations, and because much of this material-on the more "spectacular" visual aspects of Italian opera-has never before appeared in English, Opera on Stage will be welcomed by scholars and opera enthusiasts alike.