Ideology In Britten S Operas

Author : J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108416368

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Ideology in Britten's Operas by J. P. E. Harper-Scott Pdf

This thematic examination of Britten's operas focuses on the way that ideology is presented on stage. To watch or listen is to engage with a vivid artistic testament to the ideological world of mid-twentieth-century Britain. But it is more than that, too, because in many ways Britten's operas continue to proffer a diagnosis of certain unresolved problems in our own time. Only rarely, as in Peter Grimes, which shows the violence inherent in all forms of social and psychological identification, does Britten unmistakably call into question fundamental precepts of his contemporary ideology. This has not, however, prevented some writers from romanticizing Britten as a quiet revolutionary. This book argues, in contrast, that his operas, and some interpretations of them, have obscured a greater social and philosophical complicity that it is timely - if at the same time uncomfortable - for his early twenty-first-century audiences to address.

Author : Nina Penner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253052421

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Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater by Nina Penner Pdf

Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is the first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories. Through examples from opera's origins to contemporary musicals, Nina Penner examines the roles of character-narrators and how they differ from those in literary and cinematic works, how music can orient spectators to characters' points of view, how being privy to characters' inner thoughts and feelings may evoke feelings of sympathy or empathy, and how performers' choices affect not only who is telling the story but what story is being told. Unique about Penner's approach is her engagement with current work in analytic philosophy. Her study reveals not only the resources this philosophical tradition can bring to musicology but those which musicology can bring to philosophy, challenging and refining accounts of narrative, point of view, and the work-performance relationship within both disciplines. She also considers practical problems singers and directors confront on a daily basis, such as what to do about Wagner's Jewish caricatures and the racism of Orientalist operas. More generally, Penner reflects on how centuries-old works remain meaningful to contemporary audiences and have the power to attract new, more diverse audiences to opera and musical theater. By exploring how practitioners past and present have addressed these issues, Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater offers suggestions for how opera and musical theater can continue to entertain and enrich the lives of 21st-century audiences.

Author : Peter Franklin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781040040577

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Britten Experienced by Peter Franklin Pdf

Who writes the books we read about music that excites us, and why? Is ‘classical music’ all about class? Related questions underpin this partly polemical study, written by an academic who believes that the Humanities, to be really humane, must confront their methods and aims. Two recent studies of Benjamin Britten have specifically interested the author, who was educated in a world where the composer was a living subject of criticism and praise, his works reflecting values, worries and dramas that were not just about ‘music’. Franklin’s response is to question the recent writers, proposing that, like theirs, his own story conditioned when and how he experienced Britten. This he unfolds autobiographically in and around the discussion of specific works. Recalling his encounters with the composer as a schoolboy, as a student and opera-goer, and then as a teacher, he challenges recent assertions about Britten and modernism in the period.

Author : Tsung-Han Tsai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108844314

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E. M Forster and Music by Tsung-Han Tsai Pdf

The first book focused on the political resonances of E. M. Forster's engagement with and representations of music.

Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Motion picture plays
ISBN : 071902238X

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Opera, Ideology and Film by Jeremy Tambling Pdf

Author : Vicki P Stroeher,Justin Vickers
Publisher : Composers in Context
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108496698

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Benjamin Britten in Context by Vicki P Stroeher,Justin Vickers Pdf

A thematically organised overview of the musical, social and cultural contexts for the multi-faceted career of this pivotal British composer.

Author : Christopher Chowrimootoo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520970700

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Middlebrow Modernism by Christopher Chowrimootoo Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Situated at the intersections of twentieth-century music history, historiography, and aesthetics, Middlebrow Modernism uses Benjamin Britten’s operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics, and audiences mediated the “great divide” between modernism and mass culture. Reviving mid-century discussions of the middlebrow, Christopher Chowrimootoo demonstrates how Britten’s works allowed audiences to have their modernist cake and eat it: to revel in the pleasures of consonance, lyricism, and theatrical spectacle even while enjoying the prestige that came from rejecting them. By focusing on moments when reigning aesthetic oppositions and hierarchies threatened to collapse, this study offers a powerful model for recovering shades of grey in the traditionally black-and-white historiographies of twentieth-century music.

Author : Emily Richmond Pollock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190063757

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Opera After the Zero Hour by Emily Richmond Pollock Pdf

Opera After the Zero Hour: The Problem of Tradition and the Possibility of Renewal in Postwar West Germany presents opera as a site for the renegotiation of tradition in a politically fraught era of rebuilding. Though the "Zero Hour" put a rhetorical caesura between National Socialism and postwar West Germany, the postwar era was characterized by significant cultural continuity with the past. With nearly all of the major opera houses destroyed and a complex relationship to the competing ethics of modernism and restoration, opera was a richly contested art form, and the genre's reputed conservatism was remarkably multi-faceted. Author Emily Richmond Pollock explores how composers developed different strategies to make new opera "new" while still deferring to historical conventions, all of which carried cultural resonances of their own. Diverse approaches to operatic tradition are exemplified through five case studies in works by Boris Blacher, Hans Werner Henze, Carl Orff, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and Werner Egk. Each opera alludes to a distinct cultural or musical past, from Greek tragedy to Dada, bel canto to Berg. Pollock's discussions of these pieces draw on source studies, close readings, unpublished correspondence, institutional history, and critical commentary to illuminate the politicized artistic environment that influenced these operas' creation and reception. The result is new insight into how the particular opposition between a conservative genre and the idea of the "Zero Hour" motivated the development of opera's social, aesthetic, and political value after World War II.

Author : Daniel Albright
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441124074

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Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten by Daniel Albright Pdf

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner and Britten to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.

Author : Philip Rupprecht,Philip Ernst Rupprecht
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199794805

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Rethinking Britten by Philip Rupprecht,Philip Ernst Rupprecht Pdf

This book offers a new account of the composer's enduring popularity. 12 essays by a group of leading senior and emerging scholars offer fresh historical and interpretive contexts for all phases of Britten's career.

Author : D. J. Hoek
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461700791

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Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000 by D. J. Hoek Pdf

This new volume incorporates all entries from the previous editions by Arthur Wenk, expanding to cover writings drawn from periodicals, theses, dissertations, books, and Festschriften from 1940 to 2000. Over 9,000 references to analyses of works by over 1,000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are included.

Author : Vicki P. Stroeher,Justin Vickers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783271955

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Benjamin Britten Studies by Vicki P. Stroeher,Justin Vickers Pdf

Bringing together established authorities and new voices, this book takes off the 'protective arm' around Britten.

Author : Rachel Cowgill,David Cooper,Clive Brown
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781843835677

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Art and Ideology in European Opera by Rachel Cowgill,David Cooper,Clive Brown Pdf

Opera, that most extravagant of the performing arts, is infused with the contexts of power-brokering and cultural display in which it was conceived and experienced. For individual operas such contexts have shifted over time and new meanings emerged, often quite remote from those intended by the original collaborators; but tracing this ideological dimension in a work's creation and reception enables us to understand its cultural and political role more clearly - sometimes conflicting with its status as art and sometimes enhancing it. This collection is a Festschrift in honour of Julian Rushton, one of the most distinguished opera scholars of his generation and highly regarded for his innovative studies of Gluck, Mozart and Berlioz, among many others. Colleagues, associates and former students pay tribute to his work with essays highlighting the interplay between opera, art and ideology across three centuries. Three broad themes are opened up from a variety of approaches: nationalism, cosmopolitanism and national opera; opera, class and the politics of enlightenment; and opera and otherness. British opera is represented by studies of Grabu, Purcell, Dibdin, Holst, Stanford and Britten, but the collection sustains a truly European perspective rounded out with essays on French opera funding, Bizet, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Verdi, Puccini, Janacek, Nielsen, Rimsky-Korsakov and Schreker. Several works receive some of their first extended discussion in English. RACHEL COWGILL is Professor of Musicology at Liverpool Hope University. DAVID COOPER is Professor of Music and Technology at the University of Leeds. CLIVE BROWN is Professor of Applied Musicology at the University of Leeds. Contributors: MARY K. HUNTER, CLIVE BROWN, PETER FRANKLIN, RALPH LOCKE, DOMINGOS DE MASCARENHAS, DAVID CHARLTON, KATHARINE ELLIS, BRYAN WHITE, PETER HOLMAN, RACHEL COWGILL, ROBERTA MONTEMORRA MARVIN, DAVID COOPER, RICHARD GREENE, J.P.E. HARPER-SCOTT, DANIEL GRIMLEY, STEPHEN MUIR, JOHN TYRRELL.

Author : Benjamin Britten
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198167148

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On Music by Benjamin Britten Pdf

Benjamin Britten was a most reluctant public speaker. Yet his contributions were without doubt a major factor in the transformation during his lifetime of the structure of the art-music industry. This book, by bringing together all his published articles, unpublished speeches, drafts, and transcriptions of numerous radio interviews, explores the paradox of a reluctant yet influential cultural commentator, artist, and humanist. Whether talking about his own music, about the role of the artist in society, about music criticism, or wading into a debate on Soviet ideology at the height of the cold war, Britten always gave a performance which reinforced the notion of a private man who nonetheless saw the importance of public disclosure.

Author : David Beard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139789080

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Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre by David Beard Pdf

David Beard presents the first definitive survey of Harrison Birtwistle's music for the opera house and theatre, from his smaller-scale works, such as Down by the Greenwood Side and Bow Down, to the full-length operas, such as Punch and Judy, The Mask of Orpheus and Gawain. Blending source study with both music analysis and cultural criticism, the book focuses on the sometimes tense but always revealing relationship between abstract musical processes and the practical demands of narrative drama, while touching on theories of parody, narrative, pastoral, film, the body and community. Each stage work is considered in terms of its own specific musico-dramatic themes, revealing how compositional scheme and dramatic conception are intertwined from the earliest stages of a project's genesis. The study draws on a substantial body of previously undocumented primary sources and goes beyond previous studies of the composer's output to include works unveiled from 2000 onwards.