![The Desert Island, Etc. (Founded on “L'Isola Disabitata” by Metastasio.) [By Arthur Murphy.] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/mjJyj5hulzwC?fife=w150-h200)
Author: Pietro MetastasioPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 76
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The Desert Island, Etc. (Founded on “L'Isola Disabitata” by Metastasio.) [By Arthur Murphy.]
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Author: Pietro MetastasioPagodas in Play
Author: Adrienne WardPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 0838756964
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Pagodas in Play analyzes the treatment of China in the imaginative and spectacular world of eighteenth-century Italian opera. It shows how Italians used perceptions of Chinese culture to address local and transnational developments, particularly Enlightenment and secular reform initiatives. Its focus on the texts and performance practices of opera, an entertainment form accessible to a wide public, reveals cultural operations and identities harder to detect in non-fictional reformist writings, the texts traditionally privileged to explain Italian mediations of Enlightenment ideas. In its close reading of nine libretti of the most salient Settecento operas treating China (opere serie and opere buffe by authors including Metastasio, Zeno, Goldoni and Lorenzi), Pagodas in Play differentiates Italian iterations of Chinese culture from French and English counterparts. It further challenges certain tenets of orientalism, showing how it operates when nationalist and/or colonialist projects are absent, and how orientalist practices in eighteenth-century Italy exhibit early on the complexity some scholars locate only in the twentieth century. Adrienne Ward teaches Italian literature and culture at the University of Virginia.
Haydn
Author: Karl GeiringerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520043176
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This definitive study of the life and works of Joseph Haydn represents half a century of research. As a curator of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, Dr. Geiringer was in charge of one of the world's leading Hayden collections. His scholarly investigations took him to various monasteries, to libraries in Eisenstadt, Prague, Berlin, Paris, London, and Washington, D.C., and, as a guest of the Hungarian government, to the previously almost inaccessible archives of the Princes of Esterhazy in Budapest. In the past decade, Haydn studies have progressed enormously. A thematic catalog is now available, and a substantial part of Haydn's vast creative output is accessible in critically revised editions. The new edition of Hayden: A Creatie Life in Music has been substantially rewritten to incorporate the results of recent research and to remove the tarnish that had assimilated on the picture of Haydn in the earlier years.
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Author: Ralph KirkpatrickPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691027081
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
"A famous harpsichordist's study of the life, times, and works of one of the greatest composers for his instrument."--Cover.
Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800
Author: Library of Congress. Music DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Librettos
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800
Author: Library of Congress. Music DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
Book Description
Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800
Author: Oscar George Theodore SonneckPublisher:
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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L’isola delle voci
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Leone Editore
ISBN: 889296822X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Kalamake, un mago che sembra disporre di un’inesauribile ricchezza, con un incantesimo si trasporta assieme a Keola su un’isola sconosciuta abitata da antropofagi, a cui i due sono però invisibili. Qui gli rivela che le conchiglie dell’isola possono essere trasformate in monete, e poi lo abbandona in mare. Tornato sull’isola misteriosa, Keola scopre che tanti visitatori vengono da tutto il mondo per raccogliere le conchiglie, e scatena una battaglia tra i maghi invisibili e gli isolani.
Victorian Cathedral Music in Theory and Practice
Author: William J. GatensPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521268080
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This is a critical assessment of Victorian cathedral music, unique in its detailed treatment of the cultural intellectual, philosophical and religious issues that shaped the composer's creative world and so influenced compositional practice. Among the issues investigated by William Gatens are the status of music in Church and society, the Victorians' views on the moral dimension of music, the aesthetic implications of Christian orthodoxy and notions of stylistic propriety. The careers and works of seven eminent composers - Thomas Attwood, T. A. Walmisley, John Goss, S. S. Wesley, F. A. G. Ouseley, John Stainer and Joseph Barnby - are discussed in some detail with emphasis on anthems and fully composed service settings. These provide specific illustrations of stylistic trends and the practical effects of theoretical principles. The study seeks to correct some of the misunderstandings and distortions that were common among earlier twentieth-century writers on the subject.
Programme
Author: Boston Symphony OrchestraPublisher:
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Category : Concert programs
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
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