The Rival Sirens

The Rival Sirens
Author: Suzanne Aspden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2013-04-18
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1107033373

The Rival Sirens examines the vital and intertwined roles of singers, audiences and local cultural context in creating eighteenth-century opera.

Sirens

Sirens
Author: Joseph Knox
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2018-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 152476289X

A riveting thriller about a damaged undercover detective navigating a web of politicians, drug lords, missing persons, and his own flawed department, perfect for readers of Tana French, Don Winslow and Dennis Lehane. Infiltrating the inner circle of enigmatic criminal Zain Carver is dangerous enough. Pulling it off while also rescuing Isabelle Rossiter, a runaway politician’s daughter, from Zain’s influence? Impossible. That’s why Aidan Waits is the perfect man for the job. Disgraced, emotionally damaged, and despised by his superiors. In other words, completely expendable. But Aidan is a born survivor. And as he works his way deep into Zain’s shadowy world, he finds that nothing is as it seems. Zain is a mesmerizing, Gatsby-esque figure who lures young women into his orbit—women who have a bad habit of turning up dead. But is Zain really responsible? And will Isabelle be next? Before long, Aidan finds himself in over his head, cut loose by his superiors, and dangerously attracted to the wrong woman. How can he save the girl if he can’t even save himself?

The Hidden Chorus

The Hidden Chorus
Author: L. A. Swift
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2010-01-07
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0199577846

The first investigation of the relationship between the chorus of Greek tragedy and other types of choral song in Greek society. L. A. Swift not only provides new insights into individual plays, but also enriches our understanding of the role poetry and song played in ancient Greek life.

Punch

Punch
Author: Henry Mayhew
Publisher:
Total Pages: 612
Release: 1919
Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN:

Siren Songs

Siren Songs
Author: Lillian Eileen Doherty
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780472105977

A feminist critique of the Odyssey

Sara Levy's World

Sara Levy's World
Author: Rebecca Cypess
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2018
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1580469213

A rich interdisciplinary exploration of the world of Sara Levy, a Jewish salonnière and skilled performing musician in late eighteenth-century Berlin, and her impact on the Bach revival, German-Jewish life, and Enlightenment culture.

Through the Portal

Through the Portal
Author: Charles Eugene Anderson
Publisher: Mad Cow Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2023-12-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Step through the portal and into 52 worlds of boundless imagination. Sci-fi thrills, fantastical wonders, and blood-curdling chills await in Charles Eugene Anderson's Through the Portal, Volume 1. Read one before bed, or devour them all in a weekend – these bite-sized tales will leave you hungry for more.

The Power of Pastiche

The Power of Pastiche
Author: Alison DeSimone
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-04-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1942954786

In eighteenth-century England, “variety” became a prized aesthetic in musical culture. Not only was variety—of counterpoint, harmony, melody, and orchestration—expected for good composition, but it also manifested in cultural mediums such as songbook anthologies, which compiled miscellaneous songs and styles in single volumes; pasticcio operas, which were cobbled together from excerpts from other operas; and public concerts, which offered a hodgepodge assortment of different types and styles of performance. I call this trend of producing music through the collection, assemblage, and juxtaposition of various smaller pieces as musical miscellany; like a jigsaw puzzle (also invented in the eighteenth century), the urge to construct a whole out of smaller, different parts reflected a growing desire to appeal to a quickly diversifying England. This book explores the phenomenon of musical miscellany in early eighteenth-century England both in performance culture and as an aesthetic. Chapters offer analyses of concert programming, early music criticism, the compilation of pasticcio operas and songbook miscellanies, and even the ways in which composers and performers shaped their freelancing careers. Musical miscellany, in its many forms, juxtaposed foreign and homegrown musical practices and styles in order to stimulate discourse surrounding English musical culture during a time of cosmopolitan transformation as the eighteenth century unfolded.

New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera

New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera
Author: Charlotte Bentley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2022-12-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0226823091

A history of nineteenth-century New Orleans and the people who made it a vital, if unexpected, part of an emerging operatic world. New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera, 1819–1859 explores the thriving operatic life of New Orleans in the first half of the nineteenth century, drawing out the transatlantic connections that animated it. By focusing on a variety of individuals, their extended webs of human contacts, and the materials that they moved along with them, this book pieces together what it took to bring opera to New Orleans and the ways in which the city’s operatic life shaped contemporary perceptions of global interconnection. The early chapters explore the process of bringing opera to the stage, taking a detailed look at the management of New Orleans’s Francophone theater, the Théâtre d’Orléans, as well as the performers who came to the city and the reception they received. But opera’s significance was not confined to the theater, and later chapters of the book examine how opera permeated everyday life in New Orleans, through popular sheet music, novels, magazines and visual culture, and dancing in its many ballrooms. Just as New Orleans helped to create transatlantic opera, opera in turn helped to create the city of New Orleans.