"Don Giovanni" Captured
Title | "Don Giovanni" Captured PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Will |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2022-06-14 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0226815412 |
Part I. Clouds of feeling: excerpt audio recordings. Imagining excerpts; Rhetorics of seduction; Demons and dandies; All too human -- Part II. Invented works : complete audio records. The visual stage; Cruel laughter; Dancing in time -- Part III. Partial visions : video recordings. Zooming in, gazing back; Trauma retold; Libertines punished.
Don Giovanni
Title | Don Giovanni PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Publisher | Peter Smith Publisher |
Pages | 47 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Operas |
ISBN | 9780844626253 |
Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas
Title | Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas PDF eBook |
Author | Kristi Brown-Montesano |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2021-11-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0520385799 |
Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro? Is Don Giovanni’s story the only one—or even the most interesting one—in the opera that bears his name? For generations of critics, historians, and directors, it’s Mozart’s men who have mattered most. Too often, the female characters have been understood from the male protagonist’s point of view or simply reduced on stage (and in print) to paper cutouts from the age of the powdered wig and the tightly cinched corset. It’s time to give Mozart’s women—and Mozart’s multi-dimensional portrayals of feminine character—their due. In this lively book, Kristi Brown-Montesano offers a detailed exploration of the female roles in Mozart’s four most frequently performed operas, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and Die Zauberflöte. Each chapter takes a close look at the music, libretto text, literary sources, and historical factors that give shape to a character, re-evaluating common assumptions and proposing fresh interpretations. Brown-Montesano views each character as the subject of a story, not merely the object of a hero’s narrative or the stock figure of convention. From amiable Zerlina, to the awesome Queen of the Night, to calculating Despina, all of Mozart’s women have something unique to say. These readings also tackle provocative social, political, and cultural issues, which are used in the operas to define positive and negative images of femininity: revenge, power, seduction, resistance, autonomy, sacrifice, faithfulness, class, maternity, and sisterhood. Keenly aware of the historical gap between the origins of these works and contemporary culture, Brown-Montesano discusses how attitudes about such concepts—past and current—influence our appreciation of these fascinating representations of women.
Harmony in Haydn and Mozart
Title | Harmony in Haydn and Mozart PDF eBook |
Author | David Damschroder |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2012-08-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107025346 |
Innovative analytical techniques provide a penetrating view of how Haydn and Mozart employ harmony in their compositions.
Don Giovanni Vocal Score
Title | Don Giovanni Vocal Score PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2013-06-10 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0486172473 |
Romance, murder, and revenge — Mozart's masterpiece offers an ingenious blend of comic and tragic elements in recounting the adventures of a dashing libertine. Reproduced from an authoritative early edition.
Don Juan. A comic opera, in two acts [and in prose and verse], in German and English. [The libretto only.]
Title | Don Juan. A comic opera, in two acts [and in prose and verse], in German and English. [The libretto only.] PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1842 |
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ISBN |
Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart
Title | Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart PDF eBook |
Author | Wye Jamison Allanbrook |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 2016-05-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 022643771X |
Wye Jamison Allanbrook’s widely influential Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart challenges the view that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music was a “pure play” of key and theme, more abstract than that of his predecessors. Allanbrook’s innovative work shows that Mozart used a vocabulary of symbolic gestures and musical rhythms to reveal the nature of his characters and their interrelations. The dance rhythms and meters that pervade his operas conveyed very specific meanings to the audiences of the day.