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The Politics of Opera" takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and politics, from the Renaissance through the turn of the nineteenth century. What political backdrops have shaped opera? How has opera conveyed the political ideas of its times…
The Politics of Opera" takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and politics, from the Renaissance through the turn of the nineteenth century. What political backdrops have shaped opera? How has opera conveyed the political ideas of its times…
"Année après année, Giuseppe Verdi reste le compositeur d'opéras le plus joué dans le monde. Pourtant, peu d'études musicologiques sur son style ont été publiées à ce jour, et encore moins en français. En fait, ce livre, véritable guide d'analyse opératique, est le premier dans …
„Und er gehorcht, indem er überschreitet": Was Rainer Maria Rilke in seinen „Orpheus"-Sonetten formuliert, lässt sich auch als Motto des Komponierens für Stimme lesen. Von Monteverdi bis heute versuchen Komponistinnen und Komponisten, den Möglichkeiten der menschlichen Stimme zu…
Introduction -- Dancing statues -- Pimmalione -- Defining Italy in haunted Rome -- Partial animacy and blind listening in Napoleonic Italy -- Giuditta pasta and the history of musical electrification -- Conclusion "This pathbreaking study of Italian stage works reconsiders a cr…
"This pathbreaking study of Italian stage works reconsiders a crucial period of music history: the late eighteenth century through the early nineteenth century. In her interdisciplinary examination of the statue animated by music, Ellen Lockhart deftly shows how Enlightenment id…
"Presents a comprehensive study of the development of court masque and through-composed opera in England from the mid-1650s to the Revolution of 1688-89. In seeking to address the problem of generic categorization within a highly fragmentary corpus for which a limited amount of …