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Author: Austin Glatthorn Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316512495 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 391
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Reveals how the Holy Roman Empire's cultural networks c. 1800 underpinned the transnational spread of music for the German-language stage.
Author: JohnA. Rice Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351567888 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 580
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The study of opera in the second half of the eighteenth century has flourished during the last several decades, and our knowledge of the operas written during that period and of their aesthetic, social, and political context has vastly increased. This volume explores opera and operatic life of the years 1750-1800 through a selection of articles intended to represent the last few decades of scholarship in all its excitement and variety.
Author: Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 044463410X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 441
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Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives provides a broad and comprehensive discussion of history and new discoveries regarding music and the brain, presenting a multidisciplinary overview on music processing, its effects on brain plasticity, and the healing power of music in neurological and psychiatric disorders. In this context, the disorders that plagued famous musicians and how they affected both performance and composition are critically discussed, as is music as medicine and its potential health hazard. Additional topics, including the way music fits into early conceptions of localization of function in the brain, its cultural roots in evolution, and its important roles in societies and educational systems are also explored. - Examines music and the brain both historically and in the light of the latest research findings - The largest and most comprehensive volume on "music and neurology" ever written - Written by a unique group of real world experts representing a variety of fields, ranging from history of science and medicine, to neurology and musicology - Includes a discussion of the way music has cultural roots in evolution and its important role in societies
Author: John Warrack Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks ISBN: 0192800280 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 594
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Derived from the full Oxford Dictionary of Opera, this is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of opera available in paperback. Fully revised for this new edition, with over 3,500 entries, it is designed to be accessible to all those who enjoy opera, whether at the opera-house oron record. * Composers and their works * Singers and their notable performances * Plot summaries and separate entries for well-known roles, arias, and choruses * Leading conductors, producers, and designers * Opera companies and festivals
Author: Franklin Mesa Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476605378 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 477
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This encyclopedia includes entries for 1,153 world premiere (and other significant) performances of operas in Europe, the United States, Latin America and Russia. Entries offer details about key persons, arias, interesting facts, and date and location of each premiere. There is a biographical dictionary with 1,288 entries on historical and modern operatic singers, composers, librettists, and conductors. Fully indexed and with a bibliography.
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