Harrison Birtwistle s Operas and Music Theatre

Harrison Birtwistle s Operas and Music Theatre
Author: David Beard
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2012-10-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781139789080

Download Harrison Birtwistle s Operas and Music Theatre Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.

Women in the Athenian Agora

Women in the Athenian Agora
Author: Susan I. Rotroff,Robert Lamberton
Publsiher: ASCSA
Total Pages: 31
Release: 2006
Genre: Agora (Athens, Greece)
ISBN: 9780876616444

Download Women in the Athenian Agora Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Using evidence from the Athenian Agora, the authors show how objects discovered during excavations provide a vivid picture of women's lives. The book is structured according to the social roles women played: as owners of property, companions (in and outside of marriage), participants in ritual, craftspeople, producers, and consumers. A final section moves from the ancient world to the modern, discussing the role of women as archaeologists in the early years of the Agora excavations.

Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage

Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage
Author: Peter Brown,Suzana Suzana OgrajenŠek
Publsiher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2010-09-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780191610943

Download Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Opera was invented at the end of the sixteenth century in imitation of the supposed style of delivery of ancient Greek tragedy, and, since then, operas based on Greek drama have been among the most important in the repertoire. This collection of essays by leading authorities in the fields of Classics, Musicology, Dance Studies, English Literature, Modern Languages, and Theatre Studies provides an exceptionally wide-ranging and detailed overview of the relationship between the two genres. Since tragedies have played a much larger part than comedies in this branch of operatic history, the volume mostly concentrates on the tragic repertoire, but a chapter on musical versions of Aristophanes' Lysistrata is included, as well as discussions of incidental music, a very important part of the musical reception of ancient drama, from Andrea Gabrieli in 1585 to Harrison Birtwistle and Judith Weir in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Unity in Diversity

Unity in Diversity
Author: Lynne Bowker,Michael Cronin,Dorothy Kenny,Jennifer Pearson
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781134960422

Download Unity in Diversity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Translation studies as a discipline has grown enormously in recent decades. Contributions to the discipline have come from a variety of fields, including machine translation, history, literature, philosophy, linguistics, terminology, signed language interpreting, screen translation, translation pedagogy, software localization and lexicography. There is evidently great diversity in translation studies, but is there much unity? Have the different branches of translation studies become so specialized that they can no longer talk to each other? Would translation studies be strengthened or weakened by the search for or the existence of unifying principles? This volume brings together contributions from feminist theory, screen translation, terminology, interpreting, computer-assisted translation, advertising, literature, linguistics, and translation pedagogy in order to counter the tendency to partition or exclude in translation studies. Machine translation specialists and literary translators should be found between the same book covers, if only because the nomadic journeying of concepts is often the key to intellectual discovery and renewal. Celebrating our differences does not mean ignoring what we have in common. Unity in Diversity offers a valuable overview of the current state of translation studies from both theoretical and practical perspectives and makes an important contribution to debates on the future direction of translation studies.

Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries

Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries
Author: Donghyun Jeong
Publsiher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2023-07-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9783110791501

Download Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This monograph provides an alternative model for looking at the old question about Paul and the mysteries in a new light. Specifically, this study compares rituals—baptism in the Pauline communities and the initiation rituals of the mysteries—through the lens of cultural anthropology and the sociology of religion. Three research questions lead the project: What benefits does each initiation ritual promise its participants? What are the underlying messages or structures that guarantee the efficacy of those rituals? How and to what extent is the initiation ritual connected to the participants’ cognition and ethics beyond initiation itself? Taking those questions as the analytical framework, this study substantiates two points: first, in terms of ritual messages, baptism in the Pauline communities is a ritual analogous to mystery initiation, and second, Paul is an innovative interpreter of ritual who recalibrates the messages of preexisting rituals for his theological and ethical program, seeking to radically extend the implications of initiation to the embodied life of every Christ-believer. Students and scholars of New Testament, early Christianity, classics, and ritual studies will benefit from engaging this volume.

Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy
Author: Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Publsiher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780470693261

Download Greek Tragedy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences. An engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its history, and its reception in the contemporary world with suggested readings for further study Examines tragedy’s relationship to democracy, religion, and myth Explores contemporary approaches to scholarship, including structuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory Provides a thorough examination of contemporary performance practices Includes detailed readings of selected plays

Pots Plays

Pots   Plays
Author: Oliver Taplin
Publsiher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2007-10-15
Genre: Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN: 9780892368075

Download Pots Plays Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This interdisciplinary study opens up a fascinating interaction between art and theater. It shows how the mythological vase-paintings of fourth-century B.C. Greeks, especially those settled in southern Italy, are more meaningful for those who had seen the myths enacted in the popular new medium of tragedy. Of some 300 relevant vases, 109 are reproduced and accompanied by a picture-by-picture discussion. This book supplies a rich and unprecedented resource from a neglected treasury of painting.

The Notion of religion in Comparative Research

The Notion of  religion  in Comparative Research
Author: International Association for the History of Religions. Congress,International Association for the History of Religions,Fabio Mora,Lorenzo Bianchi
Publsiher: L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
Total Pages: 980
Release: 1994
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 8870628523

Download The Notion of religion in Comparative Research Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Nel 1990 si tenne a Roma il XVI Congresso del I.A.H.R. che ebbe come tema la nozione di "religione". Venne particolarmente analizzato l'uso di tale termine da parte degli studiosi di lingua europea nei rapporti con le culture non europee e viceversa.