Opera The Autobiography Of The Western World Illustrated Edition
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Author | : Simon Banks |
Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2022-08-11 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1803139528 |
Since the first performance of the first opera in 1600, operas have been telling stories from myth and history. Brought to life with over 250 colour illustrations, this book charts a comprehensive chronology of myth and history, from the creation to the present, as told in opera.
Author | : Simon Banks |
Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2022-07-28 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1803131950 |
Since the first performance of the first opera in 1600, operas have been telling stories from myth and history. This book - beginning with the Creation and ending in the present day - is a chronology of myth and history as told in opera. Over 260 paintings and photographs, most in colour, accompany the narrative. Why were particular myths and historical events important at particular times? Why were the same myths and historical events told in radically different ways? In seeking answers to these questions, this book charts how the modern West migrated from autocracy towards liberal democracy, from theocratic absolutism towards tolerant pluralism, from sexism towards gender equality. It traces growing scepticism about religiously inspired warfare and colonial empire building. Unlike anything previously published, this is a book for lovers of history and the arts, and for anyone interested in how the western world of today came into being. By exploring a bewitchingly beautiful art form, it chronicles a sequence of extraordinary transformations: the political, religious and social revolutions that created the modern West.
Author | : Piero Weiss |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195116380 |
In Opera: A History in Documents, Piero Weiss presents a wide-ranging, vivid, and carefully researched tour of operatic history. A unique anthology of primary source material, this survey includes 115 chronologically organized selections--passages from private letters, public decrees, descriptions of first performances, portions of libretti, literary criticism and satire, newspaper reviews and articles, and poetry and fiction--from opera's late Renaissance infancy through modern times. This first-hand testimony allows students to experience the history of opera as eyewitnesses, offering an immediacy and validity unmatched by standard histories. Readers are transported to a Medici wedding in sixteenth-century Florence, to the Haymarket Theatre for a performance of Handel's Rinaldo, to Mozart at work on Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and to Bertolt Brecht's writing desk, among many other landmarks in opera's history. Weiss expertly guides students, providing highly accessible headnotes to each selection that both contextualize the excerpts and position them within the broader historical narrative. In addition, he offers original translations of more than half of the selections in the book, many of which appear here in English for the first time. Stage settings, costumes, portraits, contemporary playbills, and other illustrations enliven the text and help to recreate the feel of the era under discussion. Opera: A History in Documents is an intrinsically lively text that will enrich college courses on opera and delight any music-loving reader.
Author | : Carolyn Abbate |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2015-09-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0393089533 |
“The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.”—Times Literary Supplement Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their “effervescent, witty” (Die Welt, Germany) retelling of the history of opera, examining its development, the musical and dramatic means by which it communicates, and its role in society. Now with an expanded examination of opera as an institution in the twenty-first century, this “lucid and sweeping” (Boston Globe) narrative explores the tensions that have sustained opera over four hundred years: between words and music, character and singer, inattention and absorption. Abbate and Parker argue that, though the genre’s most popular and enduring works were almost all written in a distant European past, opera continues to change the viewer— physically, emotionally, intellectually—with its enduring power.
Author | : Jean Starobinski |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780231140904 |
"This book examines some figures of seduction as they have appeared over the course of opera's history." --introd.
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Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Art |
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An illustrated monthly magazine in the interest of better art, better work and a better more reasonable way of living.
Author | : Putnam, firm, publishers, New York |
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Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Catalogs, Publishers' |
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Author | : Wang-Ngai Siu |
Publisher | : University of British Columbia Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Through Peter Lovrick's engaging text, Chinese Opera provides a brief anecdotal history of the development of Chinese opera and introduces a language of theatrical convention entirely new to the Westerner. It also identifies the hallmarks of the dozen or so regional opera styles found in this collection. As well, the book arranges the stories in a rough chain of being, from heaven, through the whole social structure on earth from emperor to outlaw, to ghosts in the nether world, offering a revealing view of Chinese social tradition and experience.
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Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Music |
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