French Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook French Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination write by Sarah Hibberd. This book was released on 2009-04-30. French Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Closely examining five French operas, this book reveals how and why grand opera sought to bring the past alive.
The Nation's Image
The Nation's Image - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nation's Image write by Jane Fulcher. This book was released on 2002-08-08. The Nation's Image available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Professor Fulcher argues that French grand opera was a subtly used tool of the state.
Grand Opera Outside Paris
Grand Opera Outside Paris - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grand Opera Outside Paris write by Jens Hesselager. This book was released on 2017-12-14. Grand Opera Outside Paris available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nineteenth-century French grand opera was a musical and cultural phenomenon with an important and widespread transnational presence in Europe. Primary attention in the major studies of the genre has so far been on the Parisian context for which the majority of the works were originally written. In contrast, this volume takes account of a larger geographical and historical context, bringing the Europe-wide impact of the genre into focus. The book presents case studies including analyses of grand opera in small-town Germany and Switzerland; grand operas adapted for Scandinavian capitals, a cockney audience in London, and a court audience in Weimar; and Portuguese and Russian grand operas after the French model. Its overarching aim is to reveal how grand operas were used – performed, transformed, enjoyed and criticised, emulated and parodied – and how they became part of musical, cultural and political life in various European settings. The picture that emerges is complex and diversified, yet it also testifies to the interrelated processes of cultural and political change as bourgeois audiences, at varying paces and with local variations, increased their influence, and as discourses on language, nation and nationalism influenced public debates in powerful ways.
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism write by Stephen C. Meyer. This book was released on 2020-03-02. The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism provides a snapshot of the diverse ways in which medievalism--the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, narratives, and ideologies of the European Middle Ages--powerfully transforms many of the varied musical traditions of the last two centuries. Thirty-three chapters from an international group of scholars explore topics ranging from the representation of the Middle Ages in nineteenth-century opera to medievalism in contemporary video game music, thereby connecting disparate musical forms across typical musicological boundaries of chronology and geography. While some chapters focus on key medievalist works such as Orff's Carmina Burana or Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, others explore medievalism in the oeuvre of a single composer (e.g. Richard Wagner or Arvo Pärt) or musical group (e.g. Led Zeppelin). The topics of the individual chapters include both well-known works such as John Boorman's film Excalibur and also less familiar examples such as Eduard Lalo's Le Roi d'Ys. The authors of the chapters approach their material from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives, including historical musicology, popular music studies, music theory, and film studies, examining the intersections of medievalism with nationalism, romanticism, ideology, nature, feminism, or spiritualism. Taken together, the contents of the Handbook develop new critical insights that venture outside traditional methodological constraints and provide a capstone and point of departure for future scholarship on music and medievalism.
Grand Illusion
Grand Illusion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grand Illusion write by Gabriela Cruz. This book was released on 2020-08-19. Grand Illusion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new and groundbreaking approach to the history of grand opera, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera explores the illusion and illumination behind the form's rise to cultural eminence. Renowned opera scholar Gabriela Cruz argues that grand opera worked to awaken memory and feeling in a way never before experienced in the opera house, asserting that the concept of "spectacle" was the defining cultural apparatus of the art form after the 1820s. Parisian audiences at the Académie Royale de Musique were struck by the novelty and power of grand opera upon the introduction of gaslight illumination, a technological innovation that quickly influenced productions across the Western operatic world. With this innovation, grand opera transformed into an audio-visual spectacle, delivering dream-like images and evoking the ghosts of its audiences' past. Through case studies of operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer, Richard Wagner, and Giuseppe Verdi, Cruz demonstrates how these works became an increasingly sophisticated medium by which audiences could conjure up the past and be transported away from the breakdown of modern life. A historically informed narrative that traverses far and wide, from dingy popular theatres in post-revolutionary Paris, to nautical shows in London, and finally to Egyptian mummies, Grand Illusion provides a fresh departure from previous scholarship, highlighting the often-neglected visual side of grand opera.
