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Book The Development of the Zarzuela and the Performance Practice of the G  nero Chico

Download or read book The Development of the Zarzuela and the Performance Practice of the G nero Chico written by Yanira Idalia Urquhart and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Carmen and the Staging of Spain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Christoforidis
  • Publisher : Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 0195384563
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Carmen and the Staging of Spain written by Michael Christoforidis and published by Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music. This book was released on 2019 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carmen and the Staging of Spain explores the Belle �poque fascination with Spanish entertainment that refashioned Bizet's opera and gave rise to an international "Carmen industry." Authors Michael Christoforidis and Elizabeth Kertesz challenge the notion of Carmen as an unchanging exotic construct, tracing the ways in which performers and productions responded to evolving fashions for Spanish style from its 1875 premiere to 1915. Focusing on selected realizations of the opera in Paris, London and New York, Christoforidis and Kertesz explore the cycles of influence between the opera and its parodies; adaptations in spoken drama, ballet and film; and the panorama of flamenco, Spanish dance, and musical entertainments. Their findings also uncover Carmen's dynamic interaction with issues of Hispanic identity against the backdrop of Spain's changing international fortunes. The Spanish response to this now most-Spanish of operas is illuminated by its early reception in Madrid and Barcelona, adaptations to local theatrical genres, and impact on Spanish composers of the time. A series of Spanish Carmens, from opera singers Elena Sanz and Maria Gay to the infamous music-hall star La Belle Otero, had a crucial influence on the interpretation of the title role. Their stories provide a fresh context for the book's reappraisal of leading Carmens of the era, including Emma Calv� and Geraldine Farrar.

Book Handbook of Spices  Seasonings  and Flavorings

Download or read book Handbook of Spices Seasonings and Flavorings written by Susheela Raghavan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-10-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A to Z Catalog of Innovative Spices and Flavorings Designed to be a practical tool for the many diverse professionals who develop and market foods, the Handbook of Spices, Seasonings, and Flavorings combines technical information about spices-forms, varieties, properties, applications, and quality specifications- with informatio

Book The Challenge of Comparative Literature

Download or read book The Challenge of Comparative Literature written by Claudio Guillén and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Claudio Guillen meditates on the elusive field of comparative literature and its vicissitudes since the early 19th century.

Book Adultera

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jose Marti
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-05-29
  • ISBN : 9781533465177
  • Pages : 46 pages

Download or read book Adultera written by Jose Marti and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-29 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titulo: Adúltera (Spanish Edition)Autor: Jose MartíFecha de Publicación :1874Sinopsis:Su drama pasional y filosófico "Adúltera", es una obra polémica y moral a la que se considera una fuente importantísima para adentrarse en el sentido de la vida de Martí, quien comenzó a escribirla en Madrid a los 19 años y la terminó en Zaragoza en 1874, a los 21, durante su primer destierro de Cuba. En medio de una exigencia extrema de lealtad, el autor retrata diferentes aristas de la especie humana a través de personajes de marcado carácter alegórico. Fiel a su tendencia simbolista, Martí le colocó a los cuatro personajes de esta obra los nombres simbólicos, en alemán, de "hombre alto", "hombre bueno", "hombre vil" y "carne". Debido a sus extensos monólogos y diálogos en que se reflejan las sensaciones y pensamientos mas íntimos de los protagonistas, "Adúltera" puede ser considerado como un drama de almas, semejante al "Tasso" de Goethe.

Book Words to Rhyme with

Download or read book Words to Rhyme with written by Willard R. Espy and published by Checkmark Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-use dictionary of over 80,000 rhyming words.

Book Great Book of World Facts  Lists and Quizzes

Download or read book Great Book of World Facts Lists and Quizzes written by David Carson and published by . This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This quiz book contains over 600 pages crammed with questions that will challenge the nimblest of minds and stretch the limits of your trivia knowledge.

Book Letters from the Battle fields of Paraguay

Download or read book Letters from the Battle fields of Paraguay written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Showtime

    Book Details:
  • Author : Larry Stempel
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780393929065
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Showtime written by Larry Stempel and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive, accessible, and comprehensive history of the Broadway musical.

Book The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity

Download or read book The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity written by Raymond Knapp and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American musical has achieved and maintained relevance to more people in America than any other performance-based art. This thoughtful history of the genre, intended for readers of all stripes, offers probing discussions of how American musicals, especially through their musical numbers, advance themes related to American national identity. Written by a musicologist and supported by a wealth of illustrative audio examples (on the book's website), the book examines key historical antecedents to the musical, including the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, nineteenth and early twentieth-century American burlesque and vaudeville, Tin Pan Alley, and other song types. It then proceeds thematically, focusing primarily on fifteen mainstream shows from the twentieth century, with discussions of such notable productions as Show Boat (1927), Porgy and Bess (1935), Oklahoma! (1943), West Side Story (1957), Hair (1967), Pacific Overtures (1976), and Assassins (1991). The shows are grouped according to their treatment of themes that include defining America, mythologies, counter-mythologies, race and ethnicity, dealing with World War II, and exoticism. Each chapter concludes with a brief consideration of available scholarship on related subjects; an extensive appendix provides information on each show discussed, including plot summaries and song lists, and a listing of important films, videos, audio recordings, published scores, and libretti associated with each musical.

Book The Spanish Stage in the Time of Lope de Vega

Download or read book The Spanish Stage in the Time of Lope de Vega written by Hugo Albert Rennert and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The War in Paraguay

Download or read book The War in Paraguay written by George Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nationalizing Blackness

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  • Author : Robin Dale Moore
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 1998-01-15
  • ISBN : 9780822971856
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Nationalizing Blackness written by Robin Dale Moore and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1998-01-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1920s saw the birth of the tango, the "jazz craze," bohemian Paris, the Harlem Renaissance, and the primitivists. It was a time of fundamental change in the music of nearly all Western countries, including Cuba. Significant concessions to blue-collar and non-Western aesthetics began on a massive scale, making artistic expression more democratic.In Cuba, from about 1927 through the late thirties, an Afrocubanophile frenzy seized the public. Strong nationalist sentiments arose at this time, and the country embraced afrocubanismo as a means of expressing such feelings. Black street culture became associated with cubanidad (Cubanness) and a movement to merge once distinct systems of language, religion, and artistic expression into a collective of national identity.Nationalizing Blackness uses the music of the 1920s and 1930s to examine Cuban society as it begins to embrace Afrocuban culture. Moore examines the public debate over "degenerate Africanisms" associated with comparas or carnival bands; similar controversies associated with son music; the history of blackface theater shows; the rise of afrocubanismo in the context of anti-imperialist nationalism and revolution against Gerardo Machado; the history of cabaret rumba; an overview of poetry, painting, and music inspired by Afrocuban street culture; and reactions of the black Cuban middle classes to afrocubanismo. He has collected numerous illustrations of early twentieth-century performers in Havana, many included in this book.Nationalizing Blackness represents one of the first politicized studies of twentieth-century culture in Cuba. It demonstrates how music can function as the center of racial and cultural conflict during the formation of a national identity.

Book The Highlands of the Brazil

Download or read book The Highlands of the Brazil written by Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Melodious Accord

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alice Parker
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780929650432
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Melodious Accord written by Alice Parker and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dinorah

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  • Author : Giacomo Meyerbeer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 188?
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 66 pages

Download or read book Dinorah written by Giacomo Meyerbeer and published by . This book was released on 188? with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature

Download or read book Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature written by Horatio Smith and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers 1,200 authors from 1870 to the present; general articles on each of the literatures, including Catalan, Icelandic, Flemish, and Turkish; and recent intellectual and cultural trends.