In Search of Opera - 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 In Search of Opera write by Carolyn Abbate. This book was released on 2014-12-25. In Search of Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In her new book, Carolyn Abbate considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. Paying tribute to music's realization by musicians and singers, she argues that operatic works are indelibly bound to the contingency of live singing, playing, and staging. She seeks a middle ground between operas as abstractions and performance as the phenomenon that brings opera into being. Weaving between opera's "facts of life" and a series of works including The Magic Flute, Parsifal, and Pelléas, Abbate explores a spectrum of attitudes towards musical performance, which range from euphoric visions of singers as creators to uncanny images of musicians as lifeless objects that have been resuscitated by scripts. In doing so, she touches upon several critical issues: the Wagner problem; coloratura, virtuosity, and their critics; the implications of disembodied voice in opera and film; mechanical music; the mortality of musical sound; and opera's predilection for scenes positing mysterious unheard music. An intersection between transcendence and intense physical grounding, she asserts, is a quintessential element of the genre, one source of the rapture that operas and their singers can engender in listeners. In Search of Opera mediates between an experience of opera that can be passionate and intuitive, and an intellectual engagement with opera as a complicated aesthetic phenomenon. Marrying philosophical speculation to historical detail, Abbate contemplates a central dilemma: the ineffability of music and the diverse means by which a fugitive art is best expressed in words. All serious devotees of opera will want to read this imaginative book by s music-critical virtuoso.
In Search of Korean Traditional Opera
In Search of Korean Traditional Opera - 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 In Search of Korean Traditional Opera write by Andrew Peter Killick. This book was released on 2010. In Search of Korean Traditional Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first work on Korean opera in a language other than Korean. Its subject is ch'angguk, a form of musical theatre that has developed over the last hundred years from the older narrative singing tradition of p'ansori. The book examines the history and current practice of ch'angguk as an ongoing attempt to invent a traditional Korean opera form to compare with those of neighboring China and Japan.
Opera in Search of a Just Ruler for a Unified Italy
Opera in Search of a Just Ruler for a Unified Italy - 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 Opera in Search of a Just Ruler for a Unified Italy write by Jehoash Hirshberg. This book was released on 2017. Opera in Search of a Just Ruler for a Unified Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A pre-condition for the selection of the case studies was that they elicited at least "successo di stima" in more than one city, and that they were favourbly judged by the critics, most importantly by Filippo Filippi. The use of musical forms in the service of drama, most importantly "La Solita Forma", was of paramount importance and will be emphasized in the case studies and supported by the many musical examples from the unjustly forgotten operas. - Jehoash Hirshberg is Professor Emeritus at the Musicology Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His research fields have included the music of the 14th century, the Italian solo concerto at the time of Vivaldi, with a joint book with Simon McVeigh. In the field of and history of Israeli art music he published "Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948" (OUP, 1995)
A History of Opera
A History of Opera - 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 A History of Opera write by Carolyn Abbate. This book was released on 2015-09-08. A History of Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.”—Times Literary Supplement Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their “effervescent, witty” (Die Welt, Germany) retelling of the history of opera, examining its development, the musical and dramatic means by which it communicates, and its role in society. Now with an expanded examination of opera as an institution in the twenty-first century, this “lucid and sweeping” (Boston Globe) narrative explores the tensions that have sustained opera over four hundred years: between words and music, character and singer, inattention and absorption. Abbate and Parker argue that, though the genre’s most popular and enduring works were almost all written in a distant European past, opera continues to change the viewer— physically, emotionally, intellectually—with its enduring power.
The Golden Age of Opera
The Golden Age of Opera - 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 Golden Age of Opera write by Robert Tuggle. This book was released on 1983. The Golden Age of Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
