Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage
Title | Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Brown |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 1755 |
Release | 2010-09-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191610941 |
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.
Choruses, Ancient and Modern
Title | Choruses, Ancient and Modern PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua Billings |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 2013-09-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199670579 |
The ancient singing and dancing chorus has exerted a powerful influence in the modern world. This is the first book to look systematically at the points of similarity and difference between ancient and modern choruses, across time and place, in their ancient contexts in modern theatre, opera, dance, musical theatre, and in political debate.
Modern Drama
Title | Modern Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Kirsten Shepherd-Barr |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0199658773 |
This book tells the story of modern drama through its seminal, groundbreaking plays and performances, and the artistic diversity that these represent. Exploring the new note of artistic hostility between dramatists and their audience, Shepherd-Barr draws on a range of theories and performances to reveal what makes modern drama 'modern'.
Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music
Title | Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph P. Swain |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2013-06-06 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0810878259 |
Although it lies far back, running roughly from about 1600 to 1750, the Baroque period is far from forgotten and Baroque music is played widely today as well, exercising numerous musicians and attracting rather substantial audiences. It experienced the emergence of a new sort of music, increasingly secular and increasingly good listening, if you will, and also the start of opera. Some of the Baroque composers appear among the most popular of all time, such as Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. So yes, this is a book for researchers, but it is also a good book for anyone who enjoys this music. The Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music certainly fills a significant space in the whole sub-series on music, since it tells us much more not only about the music but also the age that generated it. This is done particularly well in an insightful introduction, with the flow of events traced by the chronology. The dictionary section fills in the missing details with over 400 entries on the most important composers and musicians, some of the musical works themselves, important places and institutions, and a smattering of technical terms. The bibliography directs us to further reading.
The Lively Arts of the London Stage, 1675–1725
Title | The Lively Arts of the London Stage, 1675–1725 PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Lowerre |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2016-12-05 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1351886517 |
Unlike collections of essays which focus on a single century or whose authors are drawn from a single discipline, this collection reflects the myriad performance options available to London audiences, offering readers a composite portrait of the music, drama, and dance productions that characterized this rich period. Just as the performing arts were deeply interrelated, the essays presented here, by scholars from a range of fields, engage in dialogue with others in the volume. The opening section examines a famous series of 1701 performances based on the competition between composers to set William Congreve's masque The Judgment of Paris to music. The essays in the central section (the 'mainpiece') showcase performers and productions on the London stage from a variety of perspectives, including English 'tastes' in art and music, the use of dance, the depiction of madness and masculinity in both spoken and musical performances, and genres and modes in the context of contemporary criticism and theatrical practice. A brief afterpiece looks at comic pieces in relation to satire, parody and homage. By bringing together work by scholars of music, dance, and drama, this cross-disciplinary collection illuminates the interconnecting strands that shaped a vibrant theatrical world.
Theorising Performance
Title | Theorising Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2013-11-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1472519787 |
This exciting collection constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective. The last three decades have seen a remarkable revival of the performance of ancient Greek drama; some ancient plays - "Sophocles", "Oedipus", "Euripides", and "Medea" - have established a distinguished place in the international performance repertoire, and attracted eminent directors including Peter Stein, Ariane Mnouchkine, Peter Sellars, and Katie Mitchell. Staging texts first written two and a half thousand years ago, for all-male, ritualised, outdoor performance in masks in front of a pagan audience, raises quite different intellectual questions from staging any other canonical drama, including Shakespeare. But the discussion of this development in modern performance has until now received scant theoretical analysis. This book provides the solution in the form of a lively interdisciplinary dialogue, inspired by a conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama (APGRD) in Oxford, between sixteen experts in Classics, Drama, Music, Cultural History and the world of professional theatre.The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Classics and Drama alike.
Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera
Title | Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Harris-Warrick |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 505 |
Release | 2016-10-27 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1107137896 |
Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.