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Languages : it
Pages : 46
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La donna del lago melo-dramma per musica da rappresentarsi in Lucca nel R. Teatro del Giglio sotto la protezione di S.M. Maria Luisa di Borbone Infanta di Spagna Duchessa di Lucca ec. ec. l'autunno dell'anno 1822
Author: Music and the Cultures of Print
Author: Kate van OrdenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135638055
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This collection of essays explores the cultures that coalesced around printed music in previous centuries. It focuses on the unique modes through which print organized the presentation of musical texts, the conception of written compositions, and the ways in which music was disseminated and performed. In highlighting the tensions that exist between musical print and performance this volume raises not only the question of how older scores can be read today, but also how music expressed its meanings to listeners in the past.
Foreign Opera at the London Playhouses
Author: Christina FuhrmannPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107022215
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
London operatic adaptations have been maligned, but this comprehensive study demonstrates their importance to theatre, opera and canon formation.
Fashionable Acts
Author: Jennifer Hall-WittPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584656258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
A vibrant look at changes in British elite culture through the lens of opera-going
Musica Practica
Author: Michael ChananPublisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859840054
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Musica Practica is a historical investigation into the social practice of Western music which advances an alternative approach to that of established musicology. Citing evidence from Barthes, Nietzsche, Bakhtin, Max Weber and Schoenberg, Michael Chanan explores the communal roots of the musical tradition and the effects of notation on creative and performing practice. He appraises the psychological wellsprings of music using the insights of linguistics, semiotics and psychoanalysis. Tracing the growth of musical printing and the creation of a market for the printed score, he examines the transformation of patronage with the demise of the ancien régime, and draws on little-known texts by Marx to analyze the formation of the musical economy in the nineteenth century. Chanan sketches out an unwritten history of musical instruments as technology, from Tutankhamen’s trumpets to the piano, the ancient Greek water organ to the digital synthesizer. The book concludes with reflections on the rise of modernism and the dissolution of the European tradition in a sea of postmodernism and “world music.” Musica Practica assumes no specialist knowledge of music beyond an ordinary familiarity with common terms and an average acquaintance with the music of different styles and periods. It is a fascinating commentary on the soundtrack of daily life in the metropolis of the late twentieth century.
The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review
Author: La Zoraide
Author: Music and the Middle Class
Author: William WeberPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351557564
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
First published in 1975, Music and the Middle Class made a trail-blazing contribution to the social history of music, bringing together sociological and historical methods that have subsequently become accepted as central to the discipline of musicology. Moreover, the major themes of the book are ones which scholars today continue to grapple with: the nature of the middle class(es) and their role in cultural definition; the concept of taste publics distinct from social status; and the establishment of the musical canon. This classic text is reissued here in Ashgate's Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain series, though of course the book ranges beyond its study of London to discuss in detail the contrasting concert life of Paris and Vienna. This edition features a substantial new preface which takes into account the significant work that has been done in this field since the book first appeared, and provides a unique opportunity to assess the impact the book has had on our thinking about the European middle class and its role in musical life.
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