Semele

Semele
Author: Georg Friedrich Händel
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1993
Genre:
ISBN:

Semele

Semele
Author: George Frideric Handel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1925
Genre: Opera
ISBN:

The Rough Guide to Opera

The Rough Guide to Opera
Author: Matthew Boyden
Publisher: Rough Guides
Total Pages: 756
Release: 2002
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781858287492

Sketches of opera composers, opera synopses, and CD reviews.

The Operetta Empire

The Operetta Empire
Author: Micaela Baranello
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2021-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520379128

"When the world comes to an end," Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, "all the big city orchestras will still be playing The Merry Widow." Viennese operettas like Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow were preeminent cultural texts during the Austro-Hungarian Empire's final years. Alternately hopeful and nihilistic, operetta staged contemporary debates about gender, nationality, and labor. The Operetta Empire delves into this vibrant theatrical culture, whose creators simultaneously sought the respectability of high art and the popularity of low entertainment. Case studies examine works by Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán, Oscar Straus, and Leo Fall in light of current musicological conversations about hybridity and middlebrow culture. Demonstrating a thorough mastery of the complex early twentieth‐century Viennese cultural scene, and a sympathetic and redemptive critique of a neglected popular genre, Micaela Baranello establishes operetta as an important element of Viennese cultural life—one whose transgressions helped define the musical hierarchies of its day.

Where'er You Walk

Where'er You Walk
Author:
Publisher: Eighth Note Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781554731640

Set here for 2 trumpets and keyboard, this famous piece makes a great duet for use at church, weddings or concerts. Handel's flowing melodic lines are supported by the keyboard part which could be played on either organ or piano.

La voix humaine

La voix humaine
Author: Jean Cocteau
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2021
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9788846760685

The Singing and Acting Handbook

The Singing and Acting Handbook
Author: Thomas De Mallet Burgess
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2000
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780415166577

Describes methods for the performer to develop the skills required to sing and act at the same time as well as outline important aspects of the set helpful to the director and teacher.

Handel as Orpheus

Handel as Orpheus
Author: Ellen T. Harris
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2004-09-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780674015982

Handel wrote over 100 cantatas, compositions for voice and instruments decsribing the joy and pain of love. In the first comprehensive study of the cantatas, Harris investigates their place in Handel's life as well as their extraordinary beauty.

The Operagoer's Guide

The Operagoer's Guide
Author: M. Owen Lee
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2001
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1574670654

Offers brief summaries of the plots of one hundred operas, and includes background commentary and recommendations for favorite recordings of each opera.