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Author : David Eden,Meinhard Saremba
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521888493
An international team of contributors, including film director Mike Leigh, presents fresh insights into the work of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Author : Anastasia Belina,Derek B. Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107182165
A collection of essays revealing how operetta spread across borders and became popular on the musical stages of the world.
Author : Carolyn Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107095939
A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.
Author : Joshua S. Walden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107023451
A global history of Jewish music from the biblical era to the present day, with chapters by leading international scholars.
Author : Alain Frogley,Aidan J. Thomson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107650268
An icon of British national identity and one of the most widely performed twentieth-century composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams has been as much misunderstood as revered; his international impact and enduring influence on areas as diverse as church music, film scores and popular music has been insufficiently appreciated. This volume brings together a team of leading scholars, examining all areas of the composer's output from new perspectives, and re-evaluating the cultural politics of his lifelong advocacy for the music-making of ordinary people. Surveys of major genres are complemented by chapters exploring such topics as the composer's relationship with the BBC and his studies with Ravel; uniquely, the book also includes specially commissioned interviews with major living composers Peter Maxwell Davies, Piers Hellawell, Nicola Lefanu and Anthony Payne. The Companion is a vital resource for all those interested in this pivotal figure of modern music.
Author : Edward Green,Evan Spring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521881197
This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to provide an in-depth overview of Ellington's career.
Author : Kenneth Gloag,Nicholas Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107470330
Sir Michael Tippett is widely considered to be one of the most individual composers of the twentieth century, whose music continues to be performed to critical acclaim throughout the world. Written by a team of international scholars, this Companion provides a wide ranging and accessible study of Tippett and his works. It discusses the contexts and concepts of modernism, tradition, politics, sexuality and creativity that shaped Tippett's music and ideas, engaging with archive materials, relevant literature and models of interpretation. Chapters explore the genres in which Tippett composed, including opera, symphony, string quartet, concerto and piano sonata, to shed new light on his major works and draw attention to those that have not yet received the attention they deserve. Directing knowledge and expertise towards a wide readership, this book will enrich the listening experience and broaden understanding of the music of this endlessly fascinating and challenging composer.
Author : André De Quadros
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521111737
Bringing together perspectives on history, global activity and professional development, this Companion provides a unique overview of choral music.
Author : Julian Horton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521884983
A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.
Author : Simon Trezise
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521877947
This accessible Companion provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to French music from the early middle ages to the present.
Author : Nicholas Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521865821
Featuring fascinating accounts from practitioners, this Companion examines how developments in recording have transformed musical culture.
Author : Bruno Bower,Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg,Sonja Starkmeth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781003826033
This book offers an innovative approach to understanding operetta, drawing attention to its malleability and resistance to boundaries. These shows have traversed (and continue to traverse) with ease the national borders which might superficially define them, or draw on features from many other genres without fundamentally changing in tone or approach. The chapters move from nineteenth-century London and Paris to twentieth-century North America, South America and Europe to present-day Australia. Some offer fresh understandings of familiar composers, such as Johann Strauss or Gilbert and Sullivan, while others examine works or composers that are less well-known. The chapter on Socialist operetta in Czechoslovakia in particular will almost certainly be a revelation to anyone from Western Europe or the US, where operetta is often understood to be a bourgeois phenomenon. As a summary of the current state of the field, this collection showcases the many possible pathways for future scholars who wish to explore it.
Author : Benedict Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317178262
Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) was Victorian Britain’s most celebrated and popular composer, whose music to this day reaches a wider audience than that of any of his contemporaries. Yet the comic operas on which Sullivan’s reputation is chiefly based have been consistently belittled or ignored by the British musicological establishment, while his serious works have until recently remained virtually unknown. The time is thus long overdue for scholarly re-engagement with Sullivan. The present book offers a new appraisal of the music of this most notable nineteenth-century British composer, combining close analytical attention to his music with critical consideration of the wider aesthetic and social context to his work. Focusing on key pieces in all the major genres in which Sullivan composed, it includes accounts of his most important serious works – the music to The Tempest, the ‘Irish’ Symphony, The Golden Legend, Ivanhoe – alongside detailed examination of the celebrated comic operas created with W.S. Gilbert to present a balanced portrayal of Sullivan’s musical achievement.
Author : Don B. Wilmeth,Tice L. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521564441
"This new and updated Guide, with over 2,700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. Entries include people, venues and companies scattered through the U.S., plays and musicals, and theatrical phenomena. Additionally, there are some 100 topical entries covering theatre in major U.S. cities and such disparate subjects as Asian American theatre, Chicano theatre, censorship, Filipino American theatre, one-person performances, performance art, and puppetry. Highly illustrated, the Guide is supplemented with a historical survey as introduction, a bibliography of major sources published since the first edition, and a biographical index covering over 3,200 individuals mentioned in the text."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Michael Goron
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137594785
This innovative account of the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership provides a unique insight into the experience of both attending and performing in the original productions of the most influential and enduring pieces of English-language musical theatre. In the 1870s, Savoy impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte astutely realized that a conscious move to respectability in a West End which, until then, had favored the racy delights of burlesque and French operetta, would attract a new, lucrative morally ‘decent’ audience. This book examines the commercial, material and human factors underlying the Victorian productions of the Savoy operas. Unusually for a book on ‘G&S’, it focuses on people and things rather than author biography or literary criticism. Examining theatre architecture, interior design, marketing, and typical audiences, as well as the working conditions and personal lives of the members of a Victorian theatre-company, ‘Respectable Capers’ explains how the Gilbert and Sullivan operas helped to transform the West End into the family-friendly ‘theatre land’ which still exists today.
