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Carmen and the Staging of Spain

Author : Michael Christoforidis,Elizabeth Kertesz
Publisher : Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Spain
ISBN : 9780195384567

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Carmen and the Staging of Spain explores the Belle �poque fascination with Spanish entertainment that refashioned Bizet's opera and gave rise to an international "Carmen industry." Authors Michael Christoforidis and Elizabeth Kertesz challenge the notion of Carmen as an unchanging exotic construct, tracing the ways in which performers and productions responded to evolving fashions for Spanish style from its 1875 premiere to 1915. Focusing on selected realizations of the opera in Paris, London and New York, Christoforidis and Kertesz explore the cycles of influence between the opera and its parodies; adaptations in spoken drama, ballet and film; and the panorama of flamenco, Spanish dance, and musical entertainments. Their findings also uncover Carmen's dynamic interaction with issues of Hispanic identity against the backdrop of Spain's changing international fortunes. The Spanish response to this now most-Spanish of operas is illuminated by its early reception in Madrid and Barcelona, adaptations to local theatrical genres, and impact on Spanish composers of the time. A series of Spanish Carmens, from opera singers Elena Sanz and Maria Gay to the infamous music-hall star La Belle Otero, had a crucial influence on the interpretation of the title role. Their stories provide a fresh context for the book's reappraisal of leading Carmens of the era, including Emma Calv� and Geraldine Farrar.

Carmen and the Staging of Spain

Author : Michael Christoforidis,Elizabeth Kertesz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190694838

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Carmen and the Staging of Spain explores the Belle Époque fascination with Spanish entertainment that refashioned Bizet's opera and gave rise to an international "Carmen industry." Authors Michael Christoforidis and Elizabeth Kertesz challenge the notion of Carmen as an unchanging exotic construct, tracing the ways in which performers and productions responded to evolving fashions for Spanish style from its 1875 premiere to 1915. Focusing on selected realizations of the opera in Paris, London and New York, Christoforidis and Kertesz explore the cycles of influence between the opera and its parodies; adaptations in spoken drama, ballet and film; and the panorama of flamenco, Spanish dance, and musical entertainments. Their findings also uncover Carmen's dynamic interaction with issues of Hispanic identity against the backdrop of Spain's changing international fortunes. The Spanish response to this now most-Spanish of operas is illuminated by its early reception in Madrid and Barcelona, adaptations to local theatrical genres, and impact on Spanish composers of the time. A series of Spanish Carmens, from opera singers Elena Sanz and Maria Gay to the infamous music-hall star La Belle Otero, had a crucial influence on the interpretation of the title role. Their stories provide a fresh context for the book's reappraisal of leading Carmens of the era, including Emma Calvé and Geraldine Farrar.

Bizet's Carmen Uncovered

Author : Richard Langham Smith
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783275250

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Bizet's Carmen Uncovered by Richard Langham Smith Pdf

Bizet's Carmen Uncovered exposes the myths and stereotypes that so often surround this much loved opera by exploring its first staging, and the particularly Spanish contexts in which the opera was conceived, written, and staged.

Carmen Abroad

Author : Richard Langham Smith,Clair Rowden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108481618

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Carmen Abroad by Richard Langham Smith,Clair Rowden Pdf

A transnational history of the performance, reception, translation, adaptation and appropriation of Bizet's Carmen from 1875 to 1945. This volume explores how Bizet's opera swiftly travelled the globe, and how the story, the music, the staging and the singers appealed to audiences in diverse contexts.

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Paul Watt,Sarah Collins,Michael Allis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190616939

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The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century by Paul Watt,Sarah Collins,Michael Allis Pdf

Rarely studied in their own right, writings about music are often viewed as merely supplemental to understanding music itself. Yet in the nineteenth century, scholarly interest in music flourished in fields as disparate as philosophy and natural science, dramatically shifting the relationship between music and the academy. An exciting and much-needed new volume, The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century draws deserved attention to the people and institutions of this period who worked to produce these writings. Editors Paul Watt, Sarah Collins, and Michael Allis, along with an international slate of contributors, discuss music's fascinating and unexpected interactions with debates about evolution, the scientific method, psychology, exoticism, gender, and the divide between high and low culture. Part I of the handbook establishes the historical context for the intellectual world of the period, including the significant genres and disciplines of its music literature, while Part II focuses on the century's institutions and networks - from journalists to monasteries - that circulated ideas about music throughout the world. Finally, Part III assesses how the music research of the period reverberates in the present, connecting studies in aestheticism, cosmopolitanism, and intertextuality to their nineteenth-century origins. The Handbook challenges Western music history's traditionally sole focus on musical work by treating writings about music as valuable cultural artifacts in themselves. Engaging and comprehensive, The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century brings together a wealth of new interdisciplinary research into this critical area of study.

Manuel de Falla and Visions of Spanish Music

Author : Michael Christoforidis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351392587

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Manuel de Falla and Visions of Spanish Music by Michael Christoforidis Pdf

Michael Christoforidis is widely recognized as a leading expert on one of Spain's most important composers, Manuel de Falla. This volume brings together both new chapters and revised versions of previously published work, some of which is made available here in English for the first time. The introductory chapter provides a biographical outline of the composer and characterisations of both Falla and his music during his lifetime. The sections that follow explore different facets of Falla’s mature works and musical identity. Part II traces the evolution of his flamenco-inspired Spanish style through contacts with Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky, while Part III explores the impact of post-World War I modernities on Falla’s musical nationalism. The final part reflects on aspects of Falla’s music and the politics of Spain in the 1930s and 1940s. Situating his discussion of these aspects of Falla's music within a broader context, including currents in literature and the visual arts, Christoforidis provides a distinctive and original contribution to the study of Falla as well as to the wider fields of musical modernism, exoticism, and music and politics.

Carmen

Author : Mary Dibbern
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1576470326

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Carmen by Mary Dibbern Pdf

A word-by-word translation in English and IPA, and annotated guides to the dialogue and recitative versions of the opera, this book is a complete reference for anyone studying or producing Bizet's Carmen. It provides all the material necessary for practical use by singers, conductors, coaches, stage directors, opera producers, students and teachers. - from the publisher's notes.

Opera Acts

Author : Karen Henson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107004269

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Opera Acts by Karen Henson Pdf

Karen Henson explores a wealth of new historical material about singers and opera performance in the late nineteenth century.

French Literature on Screen

Author : Homer Pettey,R. Barton Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : French literature
ISBN : 1784995177

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French Literature on Screen by Homer Pettey,R. Barton Palmer Pdf

This collection presents new essays in the complex field of French literary adaptation. Using a variety of textual and interpretive approaches, it sheds light on issues of gender, sexuality, class, politics and social conventions while acknowledging a range of contexts, from the commercial to the archival and the aesthetic. The chapters, written by eminent international scholars, run chronologically from The Count of Monte Cristo through Proust and Bonjour, Tristesse to Philippe Djian's Oh... (adapted for the screen as Elle). Collectively, they fill a need for contemporary discussions on the significance of France's literary representations in the history of global cinema.

Free Women of Spain

Author : Martha A. Ackelsberg
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1902593960

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Free Women of Spain by Martha A. Ackelsberg Pdf

With fists upraised, Mujeres Libres struggled for their own emancipation and the freedom of all.

Aspects of Wagner

Author : Bryan Magee
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0192840126

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Aspects of Wagner by Bryan Magee Pdf

Many music lovers find Wagner's operas inexpressibly beautiful and richly satisfying, while others find them revolting, dangerous, self-indulgent, and immoral. The man who W.H. Auden once called "perhaps the greatest genius that ever lived" has inspired both greater adulation and greater loathing than any other composer. Bryan Magee presents a penetrating analysis of Wagner's work, concentrating on how his sensational and deeply erotic music uniquely expresses the repressed and highly charged contents of the psyche. He examines not only Wagner's music and detailed stage directions but also the prose works in which he formulated his ideas, as well as shedding new light on his anti-semitism and the way in which the Nazis twisted his theories to suit their own purposes. Outlining the astonishing range and depth of Wagner's influence on our culture, Magee reveals how profoundly he continues to shock and inspire musicians, poets, novelists, painters, philosophers, and politicians today.

Bizet

Author : Hugh Macdonald
Publisher : Master Musicians
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199781560

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Bizet by Hugh Macdonald Pdf

Today, Georges Bizet is most immediately recognized as the composer of the acclaimed opera Carmen. In the new 'Master Musicians' edition of Bizet, author Hugh Macdonald takes an in-depth look at the composer's entire life and œuvre. Featuring the latest in Bizet scholarship, including previously unknown pieces discovered by Macdonald while assembling the first comprehensive catalogue of the composer's work, this biography reveals the true extent of Bizet's work as an arranger and transcriber

Listening in Paris

Author : James H. Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520206489

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Listening in Paris by James H. Johnson Pdf

This book grew from a simple question. Why did French audiences become silent? Eighteenth-century travelers' accounts of the Paris Opera and memoirs of concertgoers describe a busy, preoccupied public, at times loud and at others merely sociable, but seldom deeply attentive.

Inca Music Reimagined

Author : Vera Wolkowicz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197548943

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Inca Music Reimagined by Vera Wolkowicz Pdf

The Latin American centennial celebrations of independence (ca.1909-1925) constituted a key moment in the consolidation of national symbols and emblems, while also producing a renewed focus on transnational affinities that generated a series of discourses about continental unity. At the same time, a boom in archaeological explorations, within a general climate of scientific positivism provided Latin Americans with new information about their grandiose former civilizations, such as the Inca and the Aztec, which some argued were comparable to ancient Greek and Egyptian cultures. These discourses were at first political, before transitioning to the cultural sphere. As a result, artists and particularly musicians began to move away from European techniques and themes, to produce a distinctive and self-consciously Latin American art. In Inca Music Reimagined author Vera Wolkowicz explores Inca discourses in particular as a source for the creation of national and continental art music during the first decades of the twentieth century, concentrating on operas by composers from Peru, Ecuador and Argentina. To understand this process, Wolkowicz analyzes early twentieth-century writings on Inca music and its origins and describes how certain composers transposed Inca techniques into their own works, and how this music was perceived by local audiences. Ultimately, she argues that the turn to Inca culture and music in the hopes of constructing a sense of national unity could only succeed within particular intellectual circles, and that the idea that the inspiration of the Inca could produce a music of America would remain utopian.

“Take Me to Spain”: Australian Imaginings of Spain through Music and Dance

Author : John Whiteoak
Publisher : Lyrebird Press lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780734037930

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“Take Me to Spain”: Australian Imaginings of Spain through Music and Dance by John Whiteoak Pdf

Australians have been transported to an imaginary Spain from at least the 1830s, when cachuchas were first danced on the Sydney stage. In Take Me to Spain John Whiteoak explores the rich tapestry of Australians’ fascination with all thing Spanish, from the voluptuous sensuality of Lola Montez to operas featuring señoritas, toreadors and Gypsies, and from evocative silent and later Spain-themed Hollywood movies to the dazzlingly creative artistry of the flamenco dancers and guitarists who toured Australia in the 1960s and ’70s. Examining the diverse ways that Spanish music and dance have been mediated or hybridised to cater for Australian popular taste, this landmark study reveals how Hispanic traditions have become integral to the cultural history of the nation.