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Understanding Italian Opera
Author | : Tim Carter |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780190247942 |
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"Eschewing the technical musical detail that all too often dominates writing on opera, Carter begins instead where the composers themselves did: with the text. Walking readers through the relationship between music and poetry that lies at the heart of any opera, Carter then offers explorations of five of the most enduring and emblematic Italian operas: Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea; Handel's Julius Caesar in Egypt; Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro; Verdi's Rigoletto; and Puccini's La Bohaeme"--Dust jacket flap.
Understanding Italian Opera
Author | : Tim Carter |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2015-09-16 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780190247966 |
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Opera is often regarded as the pinnacle of high art. A "Western" genre with global reach, it is where music and drama come together in unique ways, supported by stellar singers and spectacular scenic effects. Yet it is also patently absurd -- why should anyone break into song on the dramatic stage? -- and shrouded in mystique. In this engaging and entertaining guide, renowned music scholar Tim Carter unravels its many layers to offer a thorough introduction to Italian opera from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Eschewing the technical musical detail that all too often dominates writing on opera, Carter begins instead where the composers themselves did: with the text. Walking readers through the relationship between music and poetry that lies at the heart of any opera, Carter then offers explorations of five of the most enduring and emblematic Italian operas: Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea; Handel's Julius Caesar in Egypt; Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro; Verdi's Rigoletto; and Puccini's La Bohème. Shedding light on the creative collusions and collisions involved in bringing opera to the stage, the various, and varying, demands of the text and music, and the nature of its musical drama, Carter also shows how Italian opera has developed over the course of music history. Complete with synopses, cast lists, and suggested further reading for each work discussed, Understanding Italian Opera is a must-read for anyone with an interest in and love for this glorious art.
Essays on Handel and Italian Opera
Author | : Reinhard Strohm |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2008-10-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521088356 |
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Reinhard Strohm examines the relationship between Handel's great operas and the earlier European Baroque tradition.
Understanding Global Cultures Metaphorical Journeys Through 31 Nations Clusters of Nations Continents and Diversity
Author | : Martin J. Gannon,Rajnandini Pillai |
Publsiher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 681 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781412995931 |
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In Understanding Global Cultures, Fifth Edition, authors Martin J. Gannon and Rajnandini Pillai present the cultural metaphor—any activity, phenomenon, or institution with which the members of a given culture identify emotionally or cognitively—as a method for understanding the cultural mindsets of individual nations, clusters of nations, and even continents. The book shows how metaphors are guidelines to help outsiders quickly understand what members of a culture consider important. The fully updated Fifth Edition includes 31 nation-specific chapters, including a new Part XI on popular music as cultural metaphors, two completely new chapters on Vietnam and Argentina, revisions to all retained chapters, and a more explicit linkage between each cultural metaphor and current economic and business developments in each nation.
Understanding Global Cultures
Author | : Martin J. Gannon,Rajnandini Pillai |
Publsiher | : SAGE Publications |
Total Pages | : 681 |
Release | : 2015-02-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781483340067 |
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In the fully updated Sixth Edition of Understanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 34 Nations, Clusters of Nations, Continents, and Diversity, authors Martin J. Gannon and Rajnandini Pillai present the cultural metaphor as a method for understanding the cultural mindsets of individual nations, clusters of nations, continents, and diversity in each nation. A cultural metaphor is any activity, phenomenon, or institution that members of a given culture consider important and with which they identify emotionally and/or cognitively, such as the Japanese garden and American football. This cultural metaphoric approach identifies three to eight unique or distinctive features of each cultural metaphor and then discusses 34 national cultures in terms of these features. The book demonstrates how metaphors are guidelines to help outsiders quickly understand what members of a culture consider important.
Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
Author | : W. J. Henderson |
Publsiher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2022-09-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547360568 |
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Some Forerunners of Italian Opera" by W. J. Henderson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective
Author | : Axel Körner,Paulo M. Kühl |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2022-03-24 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781108843867 |
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This volume of essays discusses the European and global expansion of Italian opera and the significance of this process for debates on opera at home in Italy. Covering different parts of Europe, the Americas, Southeast and East Asia, it investigates the impact of transnational musical exchanges on notions of national identity associated with the production and reception of Italian opera across the world. As a consequence of these exchanges between composers, impresarios, musicians and audiences, ideas of operatic Italianness (italianit...) constantly changed and had to be reconfigured, reflecting the radically transformative experience of time and space that throughout the nineteenth century turned opera into a global aesthetic commodity. The book opens with a substantial introduction discussing key concepts in cross-disciplinary perspective and concludes with an epilogue relating its findings to different historiographical trends in transnational opera studies.
Italian Opera Since 1945
Author | : Raymond Fearn |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2014-06-11 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781134419180 |
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First published in 1988. Italy, the birthplace of opera in the late sixteenth century, has in recent decades seen remarkable and vital musical growth, with composers as diverse as Luciano Berio and Nino Rota, Luigi Nono and Sylvano Bussotti, Giacomo Manzoni, Bruno Maderna and Salvatore Sciarrino. The musical theatre has figured prominently in the work of Italian composers during this period, ranging from operas conceived in a traditional mode to works of a Music Theatre variety, and in style from popular to avant-garde. In this book Raymond Fearn surveys this Italian musico-theatrical phenomenon in the period since the Second World War, examining a wide range of works such as Nono's Intolleranza and Al Gran Sole Carico d'Amore, Berio's Passaggio and Un re in ascolto, Manzoni's Atomtod and La Sentenza and Castiglioni's Oberon and The King's Masque, and places these developments within a cultural and theatrical context