Dance In Handel S London Operas

Author : Sarah Yuill McCleave
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781580464208

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Dance in Handel's London Operas by Sarah Yuill McCleave Pdf

Examines the pivotal role of dance in the Italian operas of Handel, perhaps the greatest opera composer between Monteverdi and Mozart. George Frideric Handel set himself apart from his contemporaries by employing choreographed instrumental music to complement and reinforce the emotional impact of his operas. Of his fifty-three operas, no fewer than fourteen -- including ten written for the London stage -- feature dances. Dance in Handel's London Operas explores the relationship between music, drama, and dance in these London works, dispelling the notion that dance was a largely peripheral element in Italian-language operas prior to those of Gluck. Taking a chronological approach, Sarah McCleave examines operas written throughout various periods in Handel's life, beginning with his early London operas, including his time at the Royal Music Academy and the "Sallé" operas of the 1730s, and concluding with his unstaged dramatic opera Alceste (1750). In considering the various influences on Handel (particularly the London stage), McCleave blends analysis of information from eighteenth-century treatises with that found in more modern studies, offering an informed and imaginative understanding of the role dance played in the work of this major figure --one who remained responsive throughout his career to the vital and innovative theatrical environment in which he worked. Sarah McCleave is a lecturer at The School of Creative Arts at Queen's University Belfast.

Author : David Hunter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783270613

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The Lives of George Frideric Handel by David Hunter Pdf

How have Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories moulded our understanding of the musician, the man and the icon?

Author : Nathan Link
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Opera
ISBN : 9780197651346

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A Poetics of Handel's Operas by Nathan Link Pdf

"A Poetics of Handel's Operas investigates the rich representational fabric of Handel's stories, drawing upon musicology, narratology, drama, and film in offering a study with appeal to scholars, producers and performers, opera afficionados, and anyone fascinated by storytelling. In most storytelling genres, we often distinguish between the story, on the one hand, and the way that story is represented, on the other, without a second thought. We know that a character in a film hears neither her own voice-over nor the ambient music that accompanies it, and that she does not really build a house from the ground up in the three minutes spanned by the cinematic montage that depict its construction. In opera, however, many commentators to this day characterize the medium as "unrealistic," since we know, for example, that people in the real world do not sing to each other, nor does orchestral music accompany their utterances. This said, the vocal and orchestral music, while not literally present in the world of the story surely have a great deal to tell us about the opera's story and its characters, and if we distinguish the performance we see and hear on the stage and in the orchestra pit from the story represented, we enable ourselves to construct stories that are no less coherent than those conveyed by other media. By avoiding conflation of the story and its representation, we enable ourselves to engage more meaningfully with the significance of these and many other unique aspects of operatic storytelling"--

Author : Lynn Brooks
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780299225339

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Women’s Work by Lynn Brooks Pdf

Like the history of women, dance has been difficult to capture as a historical subject. Yet in bringing together these two areas of study, the nine internationally renowned scholars in this volume shed new and surprising light on women’s roles as performers of dance, choreographers, shapers of aesthetic trends, and patrons of dance in Italy, France, England, and Germany before 1800. Through dance, women asserted power in spheres largely dominated by men: the court, the theater, and the church. As women’s dance worlds intersected with men’s, their lives and visions were supported or opposed, creating a complex politics of creative, spiritual, and political expression. From a women’s religious order in the thirteenth-century Low Countries that used dance as a spiritual rite of passage to the salon culture of eighteenth-century France where dance became an integral part of women’s cultural influence, the writers in this volume explore the meaning of these women’s stories, performances, and dancing bodies, demonstrating that dance is truly a field across which women have moved with finesse and power for many centuries past.

Author : Berthold Over,Gesa zur Nieden
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 799 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783839448854

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Operatic Pasticcios in 18th-Century Europe by Berthold Over,Gesa zur Nieden Pdf

In Early Modern times, techniques of assembling, compiling and arranging pre-existing material were part of the established working methods in many arts. In the world of 18th-century opera, such practices ensured that operas could become a commercial success because the substitution or compilation of arias fitting the singer's abilities proved the best recipe for fulfilling the expectations of audiences. Known as »pasticcios« since the 18th-century, these operas have long been considered inferior patchwork. The volume collects essays that reconsider the pasticcio, contextualize it, define its preconditions, look at its material aspects and uncover its aesthetical principles.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780521823593

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The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Ann Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136783586

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G. F. Handel by Mary Ann Parker Pdf

Baroque composer George Frideric Handel easily ranks among the world's greatest composers. The first edition of this research guide on Handel appeared in 1988; since that time a great deal of scholarly work has been published on Handel and related areas, including the discovery of a hitherto unknown work. New general resources such as the New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), electronic resources such as the RISM libretto catalogue online, and the study of Handel's continuing popularity as evidenced by the new Handel House Museum in London and Handel practice around the world (e.g., Messiah and millennium celebrations in Tonga, singalong Messiahs etc.) are incorporated into this revised edition of the Handel guide.

Author : Donald Burrows
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521456134

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The Cambridge Companion to Handel by Donald Burrows Pdf

A Companion to one of the principal creative figures in Baroque music.

Author : Sarah Yuill MacCleave
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Dance
ISBN : OCLC:246217684

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Dance in Handel's Italian operas: The collaboration with Marie Sallé by Sarah Yuill MacCleave Pdf

Author : Berta Joncus,Jeremy Barlow
Publisher : University of Delaware
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611490336

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The Stage's Glory by Berta Joncus,Jeremy Barlow Pdf

John Rich (1692-1761) was a profoundly influential figure of the eighteenth-century London stage. As producer, manager and performer, he transformed the urban entertainment market, creating genres and promotional methods still with us today. This volume gives the first comprehensive overview of Rich's multifaceted career. Contributions by leading scholars from a range of disciplines-Dtheatre, dance, music, art, and cultural historyDprovide detailed analyses of Rich's productions and representations.

Author : International Musicological Society. Congress
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198167342

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Musicology and Sister Disciplines by International Musicological Society. Congress Pdf

Drawing on the work of leading experts from around the globe, Musicology and Sister Disciplines provides the definitive, authoritative statement on the scope of musicology today and its relationship to other fields of academic endeavour, including philosophy and aesthetics, literary studies, art history, mathematics, computer science, historiography, and sociology. These groundbreaking papers represent the outcome of a major musicological conference in 1997, and include contributions from the philosopher Bernard Williams and world-famous mathematician Roger Penrose.

Author : Anthony R. DelDonna,Pierpaolo Polzonetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139828178

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The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera by Anthony R. DelDonna,Pierpaolo Polzonetti Pdf

Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source. Viewing opera as a complex and fascinating form of art and social ritual, rather than reducing it simply to music and text analysis, individual essays investigate aspects such as audiences, architecture of the theaters, marketing, acting style, and the politics and strategy of representing class and gender. Overall, the volume provides a synthesis of well established knowledge, reflects recent research on eighteenth-century opera, and stimulates further research. The reader is encouraged to view opera as a cultural phenomenon that can reveal aspects of our culture, both past and present. Eighteenth-century opera is experiencing continuing critical and popular success through innovative and provoking productions world-wide, and this Companion will appeal to opera goers as well as to students and teachers of this key topic.

Author : Gregory J. Decker,Matthew R. Shaftel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190620646

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Singing in Signs by Gregory J. Decker,Matthew R. Shaftel Pdf

Singing in Signs: New Semiotic Explorations of Opera offers a bold and refreshing assessment of the state of opera study as seen through the lens of semiotics. At its core, the volume responds to Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker's Analyzing Opera, utilizing a semiotic framework to embrace opera on its own terms and engage all of its constituent elements in interpretation. Chapters in this collection resurrect the larger sense of serious operatic study as a multi-faceted, interpretive discipline, no longer in isolation. Contributors pay particular attention to the musical, dramatic, cultural, and performative in opera and how these modes can create an intertext that informs interpretation. Combining traditional and emerging methodologies, Singing in Signs engages composer-constructed and work-specific music-semiotic systems, broader socio-cultural music codes, and narrative strategies, with implications for performance and staging practices today.

Author : Randi Margrete Selvik,Svein Gladsø,Anne Margrete Fiskvik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000055665

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Performing Arts in Changing Societies by Randi Margrete Selvik,Svein Gladsø,Anne Margrete Fiskvik Pdf

Performing Arts in Changing Societies is a detailed exploration of genre development within the fields of dance, theatre, and opera in selected European countries during the decades before and after 1800. An introductory chapter outlines the theoretical and ideological background of genre thinking in Europe, starting from antiquity. A further fourteen chapters cover the performing genres as they developed in England, France, Germany, and Austria, and follow the dissemination and adaptation of the corresponding genres in minor and major cities in the Nordic countries. With a strong emphasis on the role that pragmatic and contextual factors had in defining genres, the book examines such subjects as the dancing masters in Christiania (Oslo), circa 1800, the repertory and travels of an itinerant acrobat and his wife in Norway in the 1760s, and the influence of Enlightenment ideas on bourgeois drama in Denmark. Including detailed analyses in the light of material, political, and social factors, this is a valuable resource for scholars and researchers in the fields of musicology, opera studies, and theatre and performance studies.

Author : Reinhard Strohm
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300064543

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Dramma Per Musica by Reinhard Strohm Pdf

'Dramma per musica', the most usual term for Italian serious opera from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, was a modern, enlightened form of theater that presented a unified, artistically designed, dramatic enactment of human stories, expressed by the voice and underscored by the orchestra. This book illustrates the diversity of this baroque art form and explains how it has given us opera as we know it.