Download or read book Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera written by Rebecca Harris-Warrick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.

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Download or read book Opera and Drama written by Richard Wagner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera and Drama outlines a new, revolutionary type of musical stage work, which would finally materialize as The Ring of the Nibelung. Wagner's music drama, as he called it, aimed at a union of poetry, drama, music, and stagecraft. ø In a rare book-length study, the composer discusses the enhancement of dramas by operatic treatment and the subjects that make the best dramas. The expected Wagnerian voltage is here: in his thinking about myths such as Oedipus, his theories about operatic goals and musical possibilities, his contempt for musical politics, his exaltation of feeling and fantasy, his reflections about genius, and his recasting of Schopenhauer. ø This edition includes the full text of volume 2 of William Ashton Ellis's 1893 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.

Download or read book The Lyrical Drama written by Henry Sutherland Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Theatre Under Louis XIV written by J. Prest and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-09-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the fascinating phenomenon of cross-casting and related gender issues in different theatrical genres and different performance contexts during the heyday of French theatre. Although professional acting troupes under Louis XIV were mixed, cross-casting remained an important feature of French court ballet (in which the King himself performed a number of women's roles) and an occasional feature of spoken comedy and tragic opera. Cross-casting also persisted out of necessity in the school drama of the period. This book fills an important gap in the history of French theatre and provides new insight into wider theoretical questions of gender and theatricality. The inclusion of chapters on ballet and opera (as well as spoken drama) opens up the richness of French theatre under Louis XIV in a way that has not been achieved before.

Download or read book Main Currents of Modern French Drama written by Hugh Allison Smith and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The end of the old drama The later Stuart drama written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Opera As Drama written by Joseph Kerman and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passionate, witty, and brilliant, Opera as Drama has been lauded as one of the most controversial, thought-provoking, and entertaining works of operatic criticism ever written. First published in 1956 and revised in 1988, Opera as Drama continues to be indispensable reading for all students and lovers of opera.

Download or read book The British Drama The comic opera of Lionel Clariss or The school for fathers written by Richard Cumberland and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Introduction to Drama written by Jay Broadus Hubbell and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The end of the old drama Philip Massinger 1583 1640 Nathaniel Field 1587 1633 John Webster died c1630 Cyril Tourneur fl 1603 c1613 John Ford 1586 c1640 or post James Shirley 1596 1666 Minor dramatists of this period Dramatists who wrote both before and after the Civil War and Commonwealth periods Academical plays Masque writers of the reigns of James I and Charles I Historical review of the period from Shakspere to the Civil War The stage under James I and Charles I Summary of the literary history of the drama in this period Summary of the achievements of our dramatic literature in this period written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Music and Theatre in France 1600 1680 written by John S. Powell and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the course of the 17th century, the dramatic arts reached a pinnacle of development in France; but despite the volumes devoted to the literature and theatre of the ancien régime, historians have largely neglected the importance of music and dance. This study defines the musical practices of comedy, tragicomedy, tragedy, and mythological and non-mythological pastoral drama, from the arrival of the first repertory companies in Paris until the establishment of the Comédie-Française.

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Download or read book Journal of a Tour in France Switzerland and Italy during the years 1819 20 and 21 Illustrated by fifty lithographic prints etc written by Marianne COLSTON and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book French Baroque Opera A Reader written by Caroline Wood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the outset, French opera generated an enormous diversity of literature, familiarity with which greatly enhances our understanding of this unique art form. Yet relatively little of that literature is available in English, despite an upsurge of interest in the Lully-Rameau period during the past two decades. This book presents a wide-ranging and informative picture of the organization and evolution of French Baroque opera, its aims and aspirations, its strengths and weaknesses. Drawing on official documents, theoretical writings, letters, diaries, dictionary entries, contemporary reviews and commentaries, it provides an often entertaining insight into Lully’s once-proud Royal Academy of Music and the colourful characters who surrounded it. The translated passages are set in context, and readers are directed to further scholarly and critical writings in English. Readers will find this new, updated edition easier to use with its revised and expanded translations, supplementary explanatory content and new illustrations.