Author: Alfred BatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Includes selections, epitomes, outlines of dramas, and some entire plays.
Drama and Opera: German drama
Author: Alfred BatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Includes selections, epitomes, outlines of dramas, and some entire plays.
Drama and Opera: German drama
Author: The Drama and Opera: Germany
Author: Alfred BatesDrama and Opera: Germany
Author: Medievalism and Nationalism in German Opera
Author: Michael S. RichardsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135180636X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Medievalism, or the reception or interpretation of the Middle Ages, was a prominent aesthetic for German opera composers in the first half of the nineteenth century. A healthy competition to establish a Germanic operatic repertory arose at this time, and fascination with medieval times served a critical role in shaping the desire for a unified national and cultural identity. Using operas by Weber, Schubert, Marshner, Wagner, and Schumann as case studies, Richardson investigates what historical information was available to German composers in their recreations of medieval music, and whether or not such information had any demonstrable effect on their compositions. The significant role that nationalism played in the choice of medieval subject matter for opera is also examined, along with how audiences and critics responded to the medieval milieu of these works. In this book, readers will gain a clear understanding of the rise of German opera in the early nineteenth century and the cultural and historical context in which this occurred. This book will also provide insight on the reception of medieval history and medieval music in nineteenth-century Germany, and will demonstrate how medievalism and nationalism were mutually reinforcing phenomena at this time and place in history.
North German Opera in the Age of Goethe
Author: Thomas BaumanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521260275
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This book is the first study of the development of German opera in northern Germany from the first comic operas of Johann Adam Hiller at Leipzig in 1766 to the end of the century. Intellectually and historically, the period witnessed the flowering of the German stage and German letters. German opera was an inseparable part of the new aspirations of the German stage during the Enlightenment. Thomas Bauman stresses the vital role of the mixed repertories of German companies in effecting changes in the genre. North German opera began as a basically literary genre. It then changed dramatically in response to two major trends: first, the contact with the serious elements and styles of tragedy and secondly, the triumph on German stages of Italian, French, and Viennese comic operas. The book is generously illustrated with music examples. There is also a complete catalogue of texts of North German opera: those composed for performance and unset published librettos both cross-indexed under the librettists' names.
The Drama and Opera: France and Germany
Author: Alfred BatesProvincional Theater and Its Opera
Author: Jiří KopeckýPublisher: Vydavatelství Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci
ISBN: 8087895509
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This monograph is a model essay on the functioning of a municipal German-language theatre, and it introduces a new view into research led by both theatre scientists and musicologists on the European scene. The book is conceived as social history of a citizen's cultural institution and interprets a wide range of problematic themes which we meet to this day in the everyday practice of municipal theatres.
Drama and Opera: German drama
Author: Opera and Drama
Author: Richard WagnerPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297654
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera and Drama outlines a new, revolutionary type of musical stage work, which would finally materialize as The Ring of the Nibelung. Wagner's music drama, as he called it, aimed at a union of poetry, drama, music, and stagecraft. ø In a rare book-length study, the composer discusses the enhancement of dramas by operatic treatment and the subjects that make the best dramas. The expected Wagnerian voltage is here: in his thinking about myths such as Oedipus, his theories about operatic goals and musical possibilities, his contempt for musical politics, his exaltation of feeling and fantasy, his reflections about genius, and his recasting of Schopenhauer. ø This edition includes the full text of volume 2 of William Ashton Ellis's 1893 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.