Melodramatic voices: understanding music drama

by Hibberd, Sarah

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Full title :Melodramatic voices : understanding music drama / edited by Sarah Hibberd.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:cop. 2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ashgate
Place of Publication:Farnham
Language:eng
Publication Date:cop. 2011.

Notes

Bibliogr. p . [263]-282.

The Physical Object

Description:xx, 291 p. : : ill., mus. ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781409400820, 1409400824
oclc:ocn812503068
LC Classification:ML2050
Dewey Decimal:782.109

Music in Pixérécourt's early melodramas / Katherine Astbury -- Operatic or theatrical? Orchestral framings of the voice in the melodrama Sept heures (1829) / Jens Hesselager -- Reconstructing Greek drama: Saint-Saëns and the melodramatic ideal / Elinor Olin -- In a woman's voice: musical recitation and the feminization of American melodrama / Marian Wilson Kimber -- 'Si l'orchestre seul chantait' : Melodramatic voices in Chelard's Macbeth (1827) / Sarah Hibberd -- Melodramatic spectacle on the English operatic stage / Philip Carli -- Janáček and melodrama / John Tyrrell -- Dismembering 'expectations': the modernization of monodrama in Fin-de-siècle theatrical arts / Jessica Payette -- Opera for the people: melodrama in Hugo Herrmann's Vasantasena (1930) / Nanette Nielsen -- Berlioz's 'Roméo au tombeau': melodrama of the mind / Violaine Anger -- Be it [n]ever so humble? The narrating voice in the underscore to the Wizard of Oz (MGM, 1939) / Fiona Ford -- The voice-over as 'melodramatic voice' / Jacqeline Waeber -- Dismembering the musical voice: Mahler, melodrama and Dracula from stage to screen / Jeremy Barham.

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