Melodramatic Voices - 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 Melodramatic Voices write by Sarah Hibberd. This book was released on 2011. Melodramatic Voices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The genre of mélodrame à grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. The premise of this volume is the idea that the melodramatic aesthetic is central to our understanding of nineteenth-century music drama, broadly defined as spoken plays with music, operas and other hybrid genres that combine music with text and/or image.
Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama
Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama - 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 Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama write by Sarah Hibberd. This book was released on 2016-04-22. Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The genre of mélodrame à grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. Physical gesture, mise en scène and music were as important in communicating meaning and passion as spoken dialogue. The premise of this volume is the idea that the melodramatic aesthetic is central to our understanding of nineteenth-century music drama, broadly defined as spoken plays with music, operas and other hybrid genres that combine music with text and/or image. This relationship is examined closely, and its evolution in the twentieth century in selected operas, musicals and films is understood as an extension of this nineteenth-century aesthetic. The book therefore develops our understanding of opera in the context of melodrama's broader influence on musical culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book will appeal to those interested in film studies, drama, theatre and modern languages as well as music and opera.
The Melodramatic Moment
The Melodramatic Moment - 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 Melodramatic Moment write by Katherine Hambridge. This book was released on 2018-07-16. The Melodramatic Moment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look—from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein’s creation, and from Louise Brooks’s exaggerated acting in Pandora’s Box to the vicissitudes endlessly reshaping the life of a brooding Don Draper. This anthology proposes to address the sometimes bewilderingly broad understandings of melodrama by insisting on the historical specificity of its genesis on the stage in late-eighteenth-century Europe. Melodrama emerged during this time in the metropolitan centers of London, Paris, Vienna, and Berlin through stage adaptations of classical subjects and gothic novels, and they became famous for their use of passionate expression and spectacular scenery. Yet, as contributors to this volume emphasize, early melodramas also placed sound at center stage, through their distinctive—and often disconcerting—alternations between speech and music. This book draws out the melo of melodrama, showing the crucial dimensions of sound and music for a genre that permeates our dramatic, literary, and cinematic sensibilities today. A richly interdisciplinary anthology, The Melodramatic Moment will open up new dialogues between musicology and literary and theater studies.
The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama
The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama - 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 Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama write by Carolyn Williams. This book was released on 2018-10-04. The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.
The Elocutionists
The Elocutionists - 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 Elocutionists write by Marian Wilson Kimber. This book was released on 2017-01-19. The Elocutionists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women--achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian Wilson Kimber restores elocution with music to its rightful place in performance history. Gazing through the lenses of gender and genre, Wilson Kimber argues that these female artists transgressed the previous boundaries between private and public domains. Their performances advocated for female agency while also contributing to a new social construction of gender. Elocutionists, proud purveyors of wholesome entertainment, pointedly contrasted their "acceptable" feminine attributes against those of morally suspect actresses. As Wilson Kimber shows, their influence far outlived their heyday. Women, the primary composers of melodramatic compositions, did nothing less than create a tradition that helped shape the history of American music.
