Music, Opera and Dance 2004
Title | Music, Opera and Dance 2004 PDF eBook |
Author | Alain Charles Art Publishing Limited |
Publisher | Twayne Publishers |
Pages | |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780954416539 |
The Rest Is Noise
Title | The Rest Is Noise PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Ross |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 706 |
Release | 2007-10-16 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1429932880 |
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance, & Musical Theater
Title | The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance, & Musical Theater PDF eBook |
Author | Claude J. Summers |
Publisher | Cleis Press |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1573441988 |
This unique encyclopedia showcases the contribution of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer people to music, dance, and musical theater.
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 | 1316776719 |
Since its inception, French opera has embraced dance, yet all too often operatic dancing is treated as mere decoration. Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera exposes the multiple and meaningful roles that dance has played, starting from Jean-Baptiste Lully's first opera in 1672. It counters prevailing notions in operatic historiography that dance was parenthetical and presents compelling evidence that the divertissement - present in every act of every opera - is essential to understanding the work. The book considers the operas of Lully - his lighter works as well as his tragedies - and the 46-year period between the death of Lully and the arrival of Rameau, when influences from the commedia dell'arte and other theatres began to inflect French operatic practices. It explores the intersections of musical, textual, choreographic and staging practices at a complex institution - the Académie Royale de Musique - which upheld as a fundamental aesthetic principle the integration of dance into opera.
Losing Louis
Title | Losing Louis PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Mendes Da Costa |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2014-10-10 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1408151189 |
The second play by a "writer of terrific promise" (Time Out) is a comedy of family intrigue and secrets Interwoven events from the past and present blend together in this touching comedy spanning two generations of a family. Secrets that refuse to remain buried erupt as Jewish and non-Jewish family members are brought together. After years of separation, the funeral of their father Louis is the catalyst for the family members having to face it out in the bedroom - the place where all the confusion began. And the place where the truth about each of them will finally be discovered. "He's had the decency to rename the funeral parlour... He provides coffee out front and coffins out back. Apparently not enough people are dying anymore but everyone needs cake." Published to tie-in with the world premiere at the Hampstead Theatre, London.
Grand Illusion
Title | Grand Illusion PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriela Cruz |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0190915056 |
A new and groundbreaking historical narrative, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera explores how technical innovations in Paris transformed the grand opera into a transcendent, dream-like audio-visual spectacle.
Music, Opera, Dance & Drama in Asia, the Pacific and North America 2006
Title | Music, Opera, Dance & Drama in Asia, the Pacific and North America 2006 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Alain Charles Publishing |
Pages | 11 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Performing arts |
ISBN | 0954416570 |