Belliniana Et Alia Musicologica

Author : Melania Bucciarelli,Berta Joncus
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781843833178

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Music as Social and Cultural Practice by Melania Bucciarelli,Berta Joncus Pdf

"The linking theme of the essays collected here is the intersection of musical work with social and cultural practice. Inspired by Professor Strohm's ideas, as is fitting in a volume in his honour, leading scholars in the field explore diverse conceptualizations of the 'work' within the contexts of a specific repertory, over four main sections. Music in Theory and Practice studies the link between treatises and musical practice, and analyses how historical writings can reveal period views on the 'work' in music before 1800. Art and Social Process: Music in Court and Urban Societies looks at the social and cultural practices informing composition from the late Renaissance until the mid-eighteenth century, and interrogates current notions of canon formation and the exchange between local and foreign traditions. Creating an Opera Industry focuses on how genre and artistic autonomy were defined in operas from diverse eras and countries, explaining the role of literature and politics in this process. Finally, The Crisis of Modernity treats nineteenth-century music, offering new models for 'work' and 'context' to challenge reigning theories of the meaning of these terms."--Publisher's website.

Author : Stephen Willier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135845346

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Vincenzo Bellini by Stephen Willier Pdf

This comprehensive bibliography and research guide details all the works currently available on Vincenzo Bellini, the Italian opera composer best known for his work Norma, which is still regularly performed today at Covent Garden and by regional opera companies. 2001, the bicentennial anniversary of Bellini's death, saw several concerts and recordings of his work, raising his academic profile. This volume aims to meet the research needs of all students of Bellini in particular.

Author : William Rothstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780197609682

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The Musical Language of Italian Opera, 1813-1859 by William Rothstein Pdf

Though studying opera often requires attention to aesthetics, libretti, staging, singers, compositional history, and performance history, the music itself is central. This book examines operatic music by five Italian composers--Rossini, Bellini, Mercadante, Donizetti, and Verdi--and one non-Italian, Meyerbeer, during the period from Rossini's first international successes to Italian unification. Detailed analyses of form, rhythm, melody, and harmony reveal concepts of musical structure different from those usually discussed by music theorists, calling into question the notion of a common practice. Taking an eclectic analytical approach, author William Rothstein uses ideas originating in several centuries, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first, to argue that operatic music can be heard not only as passionate vocality but also in terms of musical forms, pitch structures, and rhythmic patterns--that is, as carefully crafted music worth theoretical attention. Although no single theory accounts for everything, Rothstein's analysis shows how certain recurring principles define a distinctively Italian practice, one that left its mark on the German repertoire more familiar to music theorists.

Author : Scott L. Balthazar
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810879430

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Historical Dictionary of Opera by Scott L. Balthazar Pdf

Opera has been around ever since the late 16th century, and it is still going strong in the sense that operas are performed around the world at present, and known by infinitely more persons than just those who attend performances. On the other hand, it has enjoyed periods in the past when more operas were produced to greater acclaim. Those periods inevitably have pride of place in this Historical Dictionary of Opera, as do exceptional singers, and others who combine to fashion the opera, whether or not they appear on stage. But this volume looks even further afield, considering the cities which were and still are opera centers, literary works which were turned into librettos, and types of pieces and genres. While some of the former can be found on the web or in other sources, most of the latter cannot and it is impossible to have the whole picture without them. Indeed, this book has an amazingly broad scope. The dictionary section, with about 340 entries, covers the topics mentioned above but obviously focuses most on composers, not just the likes of Mozart, Verdi and Wagner, but others who are scarcely remembered but made notable contributions. Of course, there are the divas, but others singers as well, and some of the most familiar operas, Don Giovanni, Tosca and more. Technical terms also abound, and reference to different genres, from antimasque to zarzuela. Since opera has been around so long, the chronology is rather lengthy, since it has a lot of ground to cover, and the introduction sets the scene for the rest. This book should not be an end but rather a beginning, so it has a substantial bibliography for readers seeking more specific or specialized works. It is an excellent access point for readers interested in opera.

Author : Daniel Brandenburg,Thomas Lindner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Opera
ISBN : UOM:39015061020940

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Belliniana et alia musicologica by Daniel Brandenburg,Thomas Lindner Pdf

Author : Iskrena Yordanova,José Camões
Publisher : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783990940051

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Eighteenth-Century Theatre Capitals: From Lisbon to St. Petersburg by Iskrena Yordanova,José Camões Pdf

The fifth volume of the series Cadernos de Queluz intends to broaden the conceptual and geographical perspectives on the pan-European history of music theatre. The cultural and ceremonial patterns common to eighteenth-century European courts created complex webs of meaning around the sovereigns who communicated via the arts, which found expression in an architectural, artistic, and musical code. The existence of a common artistic language among European countries facilitated the circulation of musicians, theatrical companies, architects, librettists, and craftsmen within a single network, challenging the orthodox conceptual distinctions between European cultural traditions. This book is a virtual journey among the artistic exchanges between the European capitals, weaving them into one single narrative, underlining the common patterns of musical practices throughout the Continent, from West to East. The road map starts from the kingdom of Portugal and passes through Madrid, Paris, the Papal States, Naples, Milan, Vienna, and ends in St. Petersburg.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015057463807

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Verdi Forum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rosy Moffa,Sabrina Saccomani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Festschriften
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121428176

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Musica se extendit ad omnia by Rosy Moffa,Sabrina Saccomani Pdf

Author : Sebastian Werr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114833481

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Eugène Scribe und das europäische Musiktheater by Sebastian Werr Pdf

'Scribe war gar nicht musikalisch; er spielte kein Instrument und hat sicherlich niemals eine Gesangslektion gehabt. Trotzdem darf man ihn einen großen musikalischen Erfinder nennen. Er hat nämlich [.] das Genie für jene dramatischen Situationen besessen, welche der Musik neue Wege eröffnen'. (Eduard Hanslick) Die Libretti von Eugène Scribe beherrschten im 19. Jahrhundert alle Gattungen des Musiktheaters. Elf Beiträge untersuchen in exemplarischen Fallbeispielen Produktion und europaweite Rezeption seiner Texte.

Author : Jessie Ann Owens,Anthony M. Cummings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019553705

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Music in Renaissance Cities and Courts by Jessie Ann Owens,Anthony M. Cummings Pdf

A festschrift prepared for the occasion of musicologist Lewis Lockwood's 65th birthday. The volume's 27 contributions, written by Lockwood's students and American colleagues, cover topics including tonal color in Dufay; notes on a Josquin motet and its sources; the Florentine madrigal, 1540-60; and a model for a changing aesthetic in the chansons of Loyset Compere. An appendix lists Lockwood's publications on Renaissance music.

Author : Anthony M. Cummings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : Church music
ISBN : 0472038931

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The Lion's Ear by Anthony M. Cummings Pdf

The first book on Pope Leo X's musical patronage in Renaissance Italy

Author : Anthony M. Cummings
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400872732

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The Politicized Muse by Anthony M. Cummings Pdf

During the years between the restoration of the Medici to Florence and the election of Cosimo I, the Medici family sponsored a series of splendid public festivals, reconstructed here by Anthony M. Cummings. Cummings has utilized unexpectedly rich sources of information about the musical life of the time in contemporary narrative accounts of these occasions—histories, diaries, and family memoirs. In this interdisciplinary work, he explains how the festivals combined music with art and literature to convey political meanings to Florentine observers. As analyzed by Cummings, the festivals document the political transformation of the city in the crucial era that witnessed the end of the Florentine republic and the beginnings of the Medici principate. This book will interest all students of the life and institutions of sixteenth-century Florence and of the Medici family. In addition, the author furnishes new evidence about the contexts for musical performances in early modern Europe. By describing such contexts, he ascertains much about how music was performed and how it sounded in this period of music history and shows that the modes of musical expression were more varied than is suggested by the relatively few surviving examples of actual pieces of music. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Anthony M. Cummings
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0871692538

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The Maecenas and the Madrigalist by Anthony M. Cummings Pdf

Musicologists are increasingly focusing upon less formal private "institutions" and traditions of patronage: informal acad. and soc, the activities of individuals, and convivial aristocratic co. Early 16th-cent. Florence was characterized by the practices of a series of these vital institutions. Such informal institutions had considerable virtues as agents of patronage; their less routinized practices freed them to engage in experimentation that the more formal institutions would not support. This study reconstructs the memberships, cultural activities, and musical exper. of these informal Florentine institutions and relates them to the emergence of the madrigal, the foremost musical genre of early-modern Europe. Richly illus. with visual materials and musical examples.

Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674032578

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Worlds Made by Words by Anthony Grafton Pdf

Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical melodramas posed moral questions with stylish flair, redefining popular ways of feeling about romance, family, gender, class, Catholicism, Italy, and feeling itself. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama argues for the centrality of melodrama to Italian culture. It uncovers a wealth of films rarely discussed before including family melodramas, the crime stories of neorealismo popolare and opera films, and provides interpretive frameworks that position them in wider debates on aesthetics and society. The book also considers the well-established topics of realism and arthouse auteurism, and re-thinks film history by investigating the presence of melodrama in neorealism and post-war modernism. It places film within its broader cultural context to trace the connections of canonical melodramatists like Visconti and Matarazzo to traditions of opera, the musical theatre of the sceneggiata, visual arts, and magazines. In so doing it seeks to capture the artistry and emotional experiences found within a truly popular form.

Author : Sander L. Gilman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 0804732647

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The Fortunes of the Humanities by Sander L. Gilman Pdf

In an era of attacks on the humanities by the right ("Goethe is not taught anymore!") and the left ("Why teach dead white males?"), a distinguished teacher and scholar presents a series of closely interconnected exercises in understanding the present state and future possibilities of the humanities.