The Cambridge Companion to Wagner - 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 Wagner write by Thomas S. Grey. This book was released on 2008-09-11. The Cambridge Companion to Wagner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richard Wagner is remembered as one of the most influential figures in music and theatre, but his place in history has been marked by a considerable amount of controversy. His attitudes towards the Jews and the appropriation of his operas by the Nazis, for example, have helped to construct a historical persona that sits uncomfortably with modern sensibilities. Yet Wagner's absolutely central position in the operatic canon continues. This volume serves as a timely reminder of his ongoing musical, cultural, and political impact. Contributions by specialists from such varied fields as musical history, German literature and cultural studies, opera production, and political science consider a range of topics, from trends and problems in the history of stage production to the representations of gender and sexuality. With the inclusion of invaluable and reliably up-to-date biographical data, this collection will be of great interest to scholars, students, and enthusiasts.
The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen - 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 Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen write by Mark Berry. This book was released on 2020-09-24. The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Companion is an essential, interdisciplinary tool for those both familiar and unfamiliar with Wagner's Ring. It opens with a concise introduction to both the composer and the Ring, introducing Wagner as a cultural figure, and giving a comprehensive overview of the work. Subsequent chapters, written by leading Wagner experts, focus on musical topics such as 'leitmotif', and structure, and provide a comprehensive set of character portraits, including leading players like Wotan, Brünnhilde, and Siegfried. Further chapters look to the mythological background of the work and the idea of the Bayreuth Festival, as well as critical reception of the Ring, its relationship to Nazism, and its impact on literature and popular culture, in turn offering new approaches to interpretation including gender, race and environmentalism. The volume ends with a history of notable stage productions from the world premiere in 1876 to the most recent stagings in Bayreuth and elsewhere.
The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture
The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture - 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 Music in Digital Culture write by Nicholas Cook. This book was released on 2019-09-19. The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Digital technology has profoundly transformed almost all aspects of musical culture. This book explains how and why.
The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord
The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord - 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 the Harpsichord write by Mark Kroll. This book was released on 2019-01-03. The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covers every aspect of the harpsichord and its music, including composers, genres, national styles, tuning, and the art of harpsichord building.
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century 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 Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera write by Mervyn Cooke. This book was released on 2005-12-08. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a distinguished team of academics, critics and practitioners. Beginning with a discussion of the century's vital inheritance from late-romantic operatic traditions in Germany and Italy, the text embraces fresh investigations into various aspects of the genre in the modern age, with a comprehensive coverage of the work of individual composers from Debussy and Schoenberg to John Adams and Harrison Birtwistle. Traditional stylistic categorizations (including symbolism, expressionism, neo-classicism and minimalism) are reassessed from new critical perspectives, and the distinctive operatic traditions of Continental and Eastern Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and United States are subjected to fresh scrutiny. The volume includes essays devoted to avant-garde music theatre, operettas and musicals, filmed opera, and ends with a discussion of the position of the genre in today's cultural marketplace.
