Music and Women of the Commedia dell' Arte - 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 Music and Women of the Commedia dell' Arte write by Anne MacNeil. This book was released on 2003. Music and Women of the Commedia dell' Arte available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Music and the Commedia dell'Arte narrates the story of the most famous commedia dell'arte troupe of the late Renaissance, focusing in particular on the representation of women on stage and on the role of music-making in their craft. In its thorough integration of the fields of music history,theatre history, performance studies, women's studies and Classics, this is the first comprehensive analysis of the leading actresses of the Compagnia dei Gelosi and their contributions to the Renaissance stage. Including an extensive survey of documents concerning comedians, their patrons,colleagues and audiences, Music and the Commedia dell'Arte provides a rich context for the study of musical-theatrical performance before the advent of opera and re-defines our perceptions of women, music and theatre in the Renaissance.
Music and Women of the Commedia Dell'arte in the Late-sixteenth Century
Music and Women of the Commedia Dell'arte in the Late-sixteenth Century - 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 Music and Women of the Commedia Dell'arte in the Late-sixteenth Century write by Anne MacNeil. This book was released on 2023. Music and Women of the Commedia Dell'arte in the Late-sixteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. MacNeil narrates the story of the most famous commedia dell'arte troupe of the late Renaissance, focusing on the representation of women on stage and on the role of music-making in their craft. It provides a rich context for the study of musical-theatrical performance before the advent of opera.
Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell’Arte
Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell’Arte - 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 Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell’Arte write by Emily Wilbourne. This book was released on 2016-11-21. Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell’Arte available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell’arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages of Venice more than fifty years later. Wilbourne considers a series of case studies structured around the most important and widely explored operas of the period: Monteverdi’s lost L’Arianna, as well as his Il Ritorno d’Ulisse and L’incoronazione di Poppea; Mazzochi and Marazzoli’s L’Egisto, ovvero Chi soffre speri; and Cavalli’s L’Ormindo and L’Artemisia. As she demonstrates, the sound-in-performance aspect of commedia dell’arte theater—specifically, the use of dialect and verbal play—produced an audience that was accustomed to listening to sonic content rather than simply the literal meaning of spoken words. This, Wilbourne suggests, shaped the musical vocabularies of early opera and facilitated a musicalization of Italian theater. Highlighting productive ties between the two worlds, from the audiences and venues to the actors and singers, this work brilliantly shows how the sound of commedia performance ultimately underwrote the success of opera as a genre.
Women on the Stage in Early Modern France
Women on the Stage in Early Modern France - 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 Women on the Stage in Early Modern France write by Virginia Scott. This book was released on 2010-07-08. Women on the Stage in Early Modern France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on actresses in France during the early modern period, Virginia Scott examines how the stereotype of the actress has been constructed. The study then moves beyond that stereotype to detail the reality of the personal and artistic lives of women on the French stage, from the almost unknown Marie Ferré - who signed a contract for 12 livres a year in 1545 to perform the 'antiquailles de Rome or other histories, moralities, farces, and acrobatics' in the provinces - to the queens of the eighteenth-century Paris stage, whose 'adventures' have overshadowed their artistic triumphs. The book also investigates the ways in which actresses made invaluable contributions to the development of the French theatre in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and looks at the 'afterlives' of such women as Armande Béjart, Marquise Du Parc, Charlotte Desmares, Adrienne Lecouvreur, and Hippolyte Clairon in biographies, plays, and films.
The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell'Arte
The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell'Arte - 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 Routledge Companion to Commedia dell'Arte write by Judith Chaffee. This book was released on 2014-11-20. The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell'Arte available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Commedia dell’Arte came archetypal characters that are still with us today, such as Harlequin and Pantalone, and the rediscovered craft of writing comic dramas and masked theatre. From it came the forces that helped create and influence Opera, Ballet, Pantomime, Shakespeare, Moliere, Lopes de Vega, Goldoni, Meyerhold, and even the glove puppet, Mr Punch. The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’Arte is a wide-ranging volume written by over 50 experts, that traces the history, characteristics, and development of this fascinating yet elusive theatre form. In synthesizing the elements of Commedia, this book introduces the history of the Sartori mask studio; presents a comparison between Gozzi and Goldoni’s complicated and adversarial approaches to theatre; invites discussions on Commedia’s relevance to Shakespeare, and illuminates re-interpretations of Commedia in modern times. The authors are drawn from actors, mask-makers, pedagogues, directors, trainers and academics, all of whom add unique insights into this most delightful of theatre styles. Notable contributions include: • Donato Sartori on the 20th century Sartori mask • Rob Henke on form and freedom • Anna Cottis on Carlo Boso • Didi Hopkins on One Man, Two Guv’nors • Kenneth Richards on acting companies • Antonio Fava on Pulcinella • Joan Schirle on Carlo Mazzone-Clementi and women in Commedia • and M.A. Katritzky on images Olly Crick is a performer, trainer and director, having trained in Commedia under Barry Grantham and Carlo Boso. He is founder of The Fabulous Old Spot Theatre Company. Judith Chaffee is Associate Professor of Theatre at Boston University, and Head of Movement Training for Actors. She trained in Commedia with Antonio Fava, Julie Goell, Stanley Allen Sherman, and Carlos Garcia Estevez.
