The Drama and Opera: Italy, Spain and Portugal
Title | The Drama and Opera: Italy, Spain and Portugal PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Bates |
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Pages | |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Drama |
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Drama and Opera: Italy, Spain and Portugal
Title | Drama and Opera: Italy, Spain and Portugal PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | American drama |
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The progress of music on the continent of Europe, with an intr. giving an account of music in the East, in Africa, in Greece, and Rome
Title | The progress of music on the continent of Europe, with an intr. giving an account of music in the East, in Africa, in Greece, and Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Europe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1845 |
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The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon
Title | The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon PDF eBook |
Author | Cormac Newark |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 2020-08-20 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0197510558 |
Opera has always been a vital and complex mixture of commercial and aesthetic concerns, of bourgeois politics and elite privilege. In its long heyday in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it came to occupy a special place not only among the arts but in urban planning, too this is, perhaps surprisingly, often still the case. The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon examines how opera has become the concrete edifice it was never meant to be, by tracing its evolution from a market entirely driven by novelty to one of the most canonic art forms still in existence. Throughout the book, a lively assembly of musicologists, historians, and industry professionals tackle key questions of opera's past, present, and future. Why did its canon evolve so differently from that of concert music? Why do its top ten titles, all more than a century old, now account for nearly a quarter of all performances worldwide? Why is this system of production becoming still more top-heavy, even while the repertory seemingly expands, notably to include early music? Topics range from the seventeenth century to the present day, from Russia to England and continental Europe to the Americas. To reflect the contested nature of many of them, each is addressed in paired chapters. These complement each other in different ways: by treating the same geographical location in different periods, by providing different national or regional perspectives on the same period, or by thinking through similar conceptual issues in contrasting or changing contexts. Posing its questions in fresh, provocative terms, The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon challenges scholarly assumptions in music and cultural history, and reinvigorates the dialogue with an industry that is, despite everything, still growing.
The Harmonicon
Title | The Harmonicon PDF eBook |
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Pages | 646 |
Release | 1825 |
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Opera in Portugal in the Eighteenth Century
Title | Opera in Portugal in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Manuel Carlos de Brito |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2007-05-31 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521036436 |
A history of opera in Portugal from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the inauguration of the Teatro de S. Carlos in 1793.
Books from the Libraries of James F. Thompson, Esq., and an English Gentleman and the Late Alexander Bryant and William Churchill Oastler, Esqs. To be Sold at Unrestricted Public Sale ... May 14th, 1915 ... at the American Art Galleries
Title | Books from the Libraries of James F. Thompson, Esq., and an English Gentleman and the Late Alexander Bryant and William Churchill Oastler, Esqs. To be Sold at Unrestricted Public Sale ... May 14th, 1915 ... at the American Art Galleries PDF eBook |
Author | American Art Association |
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Pages | 60 |
Release | 1915 |
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