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Author : Anthony Pople
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1200031175
Author : Anthony Pople
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521564891
The world of Alban Berg is full of paradoxes, secrets and allusions, but he was able to handle emotional and moral issues at a distance and with profound sympathy. His unhurried, almost aristocratic attitude to life and his extreme self-criticism in professional matters resulted in an extraordinarily small musical output, but it includes towering masterpieces such as the operas Wozzeck and Lulu, and his last work, the Violin Concerto. All of Berg's substantial works are discussed in this Companion which brings together a team of experts who write from a variety of historical and critical perspectives, outlining the place of the music in the cultural history of its time and recontextualising it against the broader twentieth-century interplay of fashions, aesthetics and ideas.
Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521780098
A collection of specially commissioned essays investigating the extraordinary diversity of twentieth-century opera.
Author : Christopher Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521566339
This volume covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing both on the political and theatrical context, while the illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada.
Author : Richard Harp,Stanley Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521646782
An accessible, up-to-date introduction to the life and works of poet and dramatist Ben Jonson.
Author : Steven N. Zwicker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521531446
John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden s tactics and triumphs in negotiating the extraordinary political and cultural revolutions of his time. The newly commissioned essays introduce readers to the full range of his work as a poet, as a writer of innovative plays and operas, as a purveyor of contemporary notions of empire, and most of all as a man intimate with the opportunities of aristocratic patronage as well as the emerging market for literary gossip, slander and polemic. Dryden s works are examined in the context of seventeenth-century politics, publishing and ideas of authorship. A valuable resource for students and scholars, the Companion includes a full chronology of Dryden s life and times and a detailed guide to further reading.
Author : Joy Porter,Kenneth M. Roemer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521822831
An informative and wide-ranging overview of Native American literature from the 1770s to present day.
Author : Jennifer Shaw,Joseph Auner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139828079
Arnold Schoenberg – composer, theorist, teacher, painter, and one of the most important and controversial figures in twentieth-century music. This Companion presents engaging essays by leading scholars on Schoenberg's central works, writings, and ideas over his long life in Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles. Challenging monolithic views of the composer as an isolated elitist, the volume demonstrates that what has kept Schoenberg and his music interesting and provocative was his profound engagement with the musical traditions he inherited and transformed, with the broad range of musical and artistic developments during his lifetime he critiqued and incorporated, and with the fundamental cultural, social, and political disruptions through which he lived. The book provides introductions to Schoenberg's most important works, and to his groundbreaking innovations including his twelve-tone compositions. Chapters also examine Schoenberg's lasting influence on other composers and writers over the last century.
Author : Robin Stowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521000424
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Author : Leslie Howsam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107023734
An accessible and wide-ranging study of the history of the book within local, national and global contexts.
Author : Douglas Jarman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521284813
A clear and accessible introduction to one of the most significant operas of the twentieth century.
Author : Andrew Feldherr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521854535
An introduction to how the history of Rome was written in the ancient world, and its impact on later periods. It presents essays by an international team of scholars that aim both to orient non-specialist readers to the important concerns of the Roman historians and also to stimulate new research.
Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139826341
This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a distinguished team of academics, critics and practitioners. Beginning with a discussion of the century's vital inheritance from late-romantic operatic traditions in Germany and Italy, the text embraces fresh investigations into various aspects of the genre in the modern age, with a comprehensive coverage of the work of individual composers from Debussy and Schoenberg to John Adams and Harrison Birtwistle. Traditional stylistic categorizations (including symbolism, expressionism, neo-classicism and minimalism) are reassessed from new critical perspectives, and the distinctive operatic traditions of Continental and Eastern Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and United States are subjected to fresh scrutiny. The volume includes essays devoted to avant-garde music theatre, operettas and musicals, filmed opera, and ends with a discussion of the position of the genre in today's cultural marketplace.
Author : Douglas Jarman
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1991-02-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521284805
This book is a guide to Berg's second opera, Lulu, written in non-technical language and intended for those students and music lovers wishing to become familiar with one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century music. Jarman presents a clear and concise introduction to the musical language and to the intricate musical and dramatic structure of Berg's opera. The volume also examines the literary background, the genesis, composition, and tortuous posthumous career of the work. The final chapters survey the performance history and suggest a possible interpretation of this complex and challenging composition. An important feature of the book is the inclusion of source documents and critical responses to the opera. Illustrated with photographs from the premiere and from recent productions, the volume also includes a synopsis, bibliography, and discography.
Author : Martin Iddon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108632027
What is serialism? Defended by enthusiastic champions and decried by horrified detractors, serialism was central to twentieth-century art music, but riven, too, by inherent contradictions. The term can be a synonym for dodecaphony, Arnold Schoenberg's 'method of composing with twelve tones which are related only to one another'. It can be more expansive, describing ways of composing systematically with parameters beyond pitch - duration, dynamic, and more - and can even stand as a sort of antonym to dodecaphony: 'Schoenberg is Dead', as Pierre Boulez once insisted. Stretched to its limits, it can describe approaches where sound can be divided into discrete parameters and later recombined to generate the new, the unexpected, beginning to blur into a further antonym, post-serialism. This Companion introduces and embraces serialism in all its dimensions and contradictions, from Schoenberg and Stravinsky to Stockhausen and Babbitt, and explores its variants and legacies in Europe, the Americas and Asia.