Melodramatic Voices Understanding Music Drama

Author : Sarah Hibberd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317097921

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Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama by Sarah Hibberd Pdf

The genre of mélodrame à grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. Physical gesture, mise en scène and music were as important in communicating meaning and passion as spoken dialogue. The premise of this volume is the idea that the melodramatic aesthetic is central to our understanding of nineteenth-century music drama, broadly defined as spoken plays with music, operas and other hybrid genres that combine music with text and/or image. This relationship is examined closely, and its evolution in the twentieth century in selected operas, musicals and films is understood as an extension of this nineteenth-century aesthetic. The book therefore develops our understanding of opera in the context of melodrama's broader influence on musical culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book will appeal to those interested in film studies, drama, theatre and modern languages as well as music and opera.

Author : Carolyn Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107095939

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The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama by Carolyn Williams Pdf

A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.

Author : Katherine G Hambridge,Jonathan Hicks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226563091

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The Melodramatic Moment by Katherine G Hambridge,Jonathan Hicks Pdf

We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look—from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein’s creation, and from Louise Brooks’s exaggerated acting in Pandora’s Box to the vicissitudes endlessly reshaping the life of a brooding Don Draper. This anthology proposes to address the sometimes bewilderingly broad understandings of melodrama by insisting on the historical specificity of its genesis on the stage in late-eighteenth-century Europe. Melodrama emerged during this time in the metropolitan centers of London, Paris, Vienna, and Berlin through stage adaptations of classical subjects and gothic novels, and they became famous for their use of passionate expression and spectacular scenery. Yet, as contributors to this volume emphasize, early melodramas also placed sound at center stage, through their distinctive—and often disconcerting—alternations between speech and music. This book draws out the melo of melodrama, showing the crucial dimensions of sound and music for a genre that permeates our dramatic, literary, and cinematic sensibilities today. A richly interdisciplinary anthology, The Melodramatic Moment will open up new dialogues between musicology and literary and theater studies.

Author : Jonathan Goldberg
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822374046

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Melodrama by Jonathan Goldberg Pdf

Offering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic film and literature provide an aesthetics of impossibility. Focused on the notion of what Douglas Sirk termed the "impossible situation" in melodrama, such as impasses in sexual relations that are not simply reflections of social taboo and prohibitions, Goldberg pursues films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Todd Haynes that respond to Sirk's prompt. His analysis hones in on melodrama's original definition--a form combining music and drama--as he explores the use of melodrama in Beethoven's opera Fidelio, films by Alfred Hitchcock, and fiction by Willa Cather and Patricia Highsmith, including her Ripley novels. Goldberg illuminates how music and sound provide queer ways to promote identifications that exceed the bounds of the identity categories meant to regulate social life. The interaction of musical, dramatic, and visual elements gives melodrama its indeterminacy, making it resistant to normative forms of value and a powerful tool for creating new potentials.

Author : Reni Ernst
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783638883931

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What do you understand by the term melodrama? - Melodramatic components of Jane Eyre by Reni Ernst Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University College Dublin (Faculty of Arts; School of English and Drama), language: English, abstract: In the following essay I will examine the term melodrama and its features. Accompanying I will give an account of the melodramatic components of the 19th century novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Both, melodrama and Jane Eyre, had their biggest impetus in the 19th century, thus have specific elements in common. Although Jane Eyre is not a drama to be played on stage it still concludes several melodramatic attributes, which will be specified after analyzing the term melodrama. The term melo originates from the Greek word melos, meaning music, which together with the annex drama simply refers to a stage play accompanied with music. Jean Jacques Rousseau is said to have firstly used a method of linking words with music in Pygmalion of 1770. In early 19th century use, melodrama referred to a stage play with interspersing songs and actors supported by music. By the end of the century the term had almost exclusively narrowed down to a dramatic piece marked by sensations, appeals to the emotions and a happy ending. Nevertheless music remained and still remains a crucial element to emphasize and intensify characters and scenes presented on stage and nowadays particularly in films. This musical element can also be found in the novels primarily of the 19th century expressed in a specific literary style, Brooks describes as follows:

Author : Edgar S. Werner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1364 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Elocution
ISBN : CORNELL:31924067333587

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Werner's Voice Magazine by Edgar S. Werner Pdf

Author : Joanne Cormac
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107181410

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Liszt and the Symphonic Poem by Joanne Cormac Pdf

A fresh evaluation of Liszt's symphonic poems, based on contextual, philosophical and musical evidence.

Author : Michael V. Pisani
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781609382308

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Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York by Michael V. Pisani Pdf

"Featuring dozens of musical examples and images of the old theatres, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre charts the progress of music in the theatre form its earliest use in the eighteenth century to the elaborate stage productions of the very early twentieth century"--Back cover.

Author : Marian Wilson Kimber
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252099151

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The Elocutionists by Marian Wilson Kimber Pdf

Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women--achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian Wilson Kimber restores elocution with music to its rightful place in performance history. Gazing through the lenses of gender and genre, Wilson Kimber argues that these female artists transgressed the previous boundaries between private and public domains. Their performances advocated for female agency while also contributing to a new social construction of gender. Elocutionists, proud purveyors of wholesome entertainment, pointedly contrasted their "acceptable" feminine attributes against those of morally suspect actresses. As Wilson Kimber shows, their influence far outlived their heyday. Women, the primary composers of melodramatic compositions, did nothing less than create a tradition that helped shape the history of American music.

Author : David Trippett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107014305

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Wagner's Melodies by David Trippett Pdf

Wagner's Melodies places the composer's ideas about melody in the context of the scientific discourse of his age.

Author : John David White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Music appreciation
ISBN : UCAL:B4440690

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Understanding and Enjoying Music by John David White Pdf

Author : William Fleming,Abraham Veinus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042285697

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Understanding Music by William Fleming,Abraham Veinus Pdf

Author : Peter Brooks
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0300065531

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The Melodramatic Imagination by Peter Brooks Pdf

In this lucid and fascinating book, Peter Brooks argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the nineteenth century, he moves on to Balzac and Henry James to show how these "realist" novelists created fiction using the rhetoric and excess of melodrama - in particular its secularized conflicts of good and evil, salvation and damnation. The Melodramatic Imagination has become a classic work for understanding theater, fiction, and film.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Elocution
ISBN : UOM:39015025423768

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Werner's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Davinia Caddy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107014404

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The Ballets Russes and Beyond by Davinia Caddy Pdf

A fresh perspective on the Ballets Russes, focusing on relations between music, dance and the cultural politics of belle-époque Paris.