Author: Ellen Creathorne ClaytonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Queens of Song
Author: Ellen Creathorne ClaytonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Opera and Sovereignty
Author: Martha FeldmanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226241130
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period’s social and political upheavals. Taking an anthropological approach to European music that’s as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera’s shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, with its festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolute ideals. She situates these transformations against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture to show how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in the face of a growing public sphere. In so doing, Feldman explains why the form had such great international success and how audience experiences of the period differed from ours today. Ambitiously interdisciplinary, Opera and Sovereignty will appeal not only to scholars of music and anthropology, but also to those interested in theater, dance, and the history of the Enlightenment.
Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Author: George GroveNotes Upon Dancing Historical and Practical by C. Blasis
Author: Carlo BlasisEaster-Mystr̈es
Author: John Denison ChamplinPublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Empress Marie Therese and Music at the Viennese Court, 1792-1807
Author: John A. RicePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521825122
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This is a study of the musical activities of Empress Marie Therese, one of the most important patrons in the Vienna of Haydn and Beethoven. Building on extensive archival research, including many documents published here for the first time, John A. Rice describes Marie Therese's activities as commissioner, collector and performer of music, and explores the rich and diverse musical culture that she fostered at court. This book, which will be of interest to musicologists, historians of artistic patronage and taste, and practitioners of women's studies, elucidates this remarkable woman's relations with a host of professional musicians, including Haydn, and argues that she played a significant and hitherto unsuspected role in the inception of one of the era's greatest masterpieces, Beethoven's Fidelio. Other composers discussed include Domenico Cimarosa, Joseph Eybler, Michael Haydn, Johann Simon Mayr, Ferdinando Paer, Antonio Salieri, Joseph Weigl and Paul Wranitzky.
Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800
Author: Library of Congress. Music DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description
The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians
Author: Waldo Selden PrattPublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Author: Champlin (jr.)
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