Osmin's Rage - 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 Osmin's Rage write by Peter Kivy. This book was released on 2018-09-05. Osmin's Rage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical—as opposed to a dramatic—necessity for opera during this period and that Mozart's Idomeneo is properly enjoyed and judged only when listeners are attuned to its seventeenth and eighteenth-century forebears.
Opera's Second Death
Opera's Second Death - 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's Second Death write by Slavoj Zizek. This book was released on 2013-10-18. Opera's Second Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, as well as our own desires to die and to go to the opera.
Critique of Pure Music
Critique of Pure Music - 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 Critique of Pure Music write by James O. Young. This book was released on 2014. Critique of Pure Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. James O. Young seeks to explain why we value music so highly. He draws on the latest psychological research to argue that music is expressive of emotion by resembling human expressive behaviour. The representation of emotion in music gives it the capacity to provide psychological insight—and it is this which explains a good deal of its value.
The Fine Art of Repetition
The Fine Art of Repetition - 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 Fine Art of Repetition write by Peter Kivy. This book was released on 1993-02-26. The Fine Art of Repetition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collection of essays on the following issues: music and the liberal education, work and performance, the world of opera, music and the history of ideas, music and emotion, and music alone.
Representations of the Orient in Western Music
Representations of the Orient in Western Music - 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 Representations of the Orient in Western Music write by Nasser Al-Taee. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Representations of the Orient in Western Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on the cultural, political and religious representations of the Orient in Western music. Dr Nasser Al-Taee traces several threads in a vast repertoire of musical representations, concentrating primarily on the images of violence and sensuality. Al-Taee argues that these prevailing traits are not only the residual manifestation of the Ottoman threat to Western Europe, but also the continuation of a long and complex history of fear and fascination towards the Orient and its Islamic religion. In addition to analyses of musical works, Al-Taee draws on travel accounts, paintings, biographies, and political events to engage with important issues such as gender, race, and religious differences that may have contributed to the variously complex images of the Orient in Western music. The study extends the range of Orientalism to cover eighteenth-century Austria, nineteenth-century Russia, and twentieth-century America. The book challenges those scholars who do not see Orientalism as problematic and tend to ignore the role of musical representations in shaping the image of the Other within a wider interdisciplinary study of knowledge and power.
