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Book L  africaine

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  • Author : Giacomo Meyerbeer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1850
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 94 pages

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Book The Meyerbeer Libretti

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  • Author : Robert Ignatius Letellier
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2013-02-21
  • ISBN : 1443846953
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book The Meyerbeer Libretti written by Robert Ignatius Letellier and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime hardly rivalled by any of his contemporaries. This ten volume set provides in one collection all the operatic texts set by Meyerbeer in his career. The texts offer the most complete versions available. Each libretto is translated into modern English by Richard Arsenty; and each work is introduced by Robert Letellier. In this comprehensive edition of Meyerbeer's libretti, the original text and its translation are placed on facing pages for ease of use. The eleventh volume presents the fourth of Meyerbeer’s grands opéras, and his final work. By 1860 long-imposed labor had started to tell upon the composer’s health: he knew that he must concentrate on the “navigator project” which he had started twenty years earlier if he intended to finish it. Meyerbeer died on 2 May 1864, the day after the completion of the copying of the full score of this his last opera, Vasco da Gama. Minna Meyerbeer and César-Victor Perrin, the director of the Opéra, entrusted the editing of a performing edition to the famous Belgian musicologist François-Joseph Fétis, while the libretto was revised by Mélesville. The original title of L’Africaine was restored out of deference to public expectation. Much of the music and action was suppressed, in spite of the strain this inflicted on the internal logic of the story. While L'Africaine is not lacking in the grandeur of statement and stirring climaxes for which the composer was so famous, there is a new intimacy, a new intensity of melancholic lyricism. Like its famous predecessors, it is basically an historical work, derived from the period of sixteenth-century Renaissance. The account of Vasco da Gama's voyage of discovery around the Cape of Good Hope and conquest of Calicut (1497-98) is subjected to a fictional treatment that raises many interesting issues. The framework is historical, but most of the characters and course of action are not; in fact the end of the opera, in the suicide of the heroine, suddenly leaves the terra firma of reality, and transports us into the mystical realms of the spirit. It is this mixture of modes that is central to the dramaturgy of L'Africaine, a confusion of history and fairytale, ancient certainties and challenging discoveries, in the creation of a new mythology. There is also originality in formal developments, with the great tenor scene in act 4 providing a new malleability in handling the constraints of shape and genre: recitative, arioso and cabaletta have a fluent integration in trying to explore the text more pointedly. L’Africaine was produced on 28 April 1865, a great posthumous tribute to its famous creators. The Ship Scene, the exotic Indian act, and the Scene of the Manchineel Tree exerted a fascination on audiences, and elicited new praise. The work full of melodic beauty and rapturous lyricism, began a triumphal progress through the world, beginning with the big stages of London and Berlin.

Book A New Plain and Useful Introduction to the Italian

Download or read book A New Plain and Useful Introduction to the Italian written by John Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1739 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book L Orlando Furioso

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  • Author : Lodovico Ariosto
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1823
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 758 pages

Download or read book L Orlando Furioso written by Lodovico Ariosto and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mozart s Don Giovanni

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  • Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 1930841841
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Mozart s Don Giovanni written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete, newly translated libretto featuring foreign/English translation side-by-side, plus music examples.

Book Inductive Italian course forr beginners

Download or read book Inductive Italian course forr beginners written by William Brownrigg Smith and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Syntagmatia

Download or read book Syntagmatia written by Dirk Sacré and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collective volume has been dedicated to two distinguished scholars of Neo-Latin Studies on the occasion of their retirement after a long and fruitful academic career, one at the Université catholique Louvain-la-Neuve, the other at the internationally renowned Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae of Leuven University. Both the rich variety of subjects dealt with and the international diversity of the scholars authoring contributions reflect the wide interests of the celebrated Neo-Latinists, their international position, and the actual status of the discipline itself. Ranging from the Trecento to the 21st century, and embracing Latin writings from Italy, Hungary, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Poland, the New World, Spain, Scotland, Denmark and China, this volume is as rich and multifaceted as it is voluminous, for it not only offers studies on well-known figures such as Petrarch, Lorenzo Valla, Erasmus, Vives, Thomas More, Eobanus Hessus, Lipsius, Tycho Brahe, Jean de la Fontaine and Jacob Cats, but it also includes new contributions on Renaissance commentaries and editions of classical authors such as Homer, Seneca and Horace; on Neo-Latin novels, epistolography and Renaissance rhetoric; on Latin translations from the vernacular and invectives against Napoleon; on the teaching of Latin in the 19th century; and on the didactics of Neo-Latin nowadays.

Book Le Nozze di Figaro  a comic opera  in four acts  by L  da Ponte  founded on the comedy of P  A  Caron de Beaumarchais   the music by Mozart  The Libretto edited   translated by M  Maggioni  etc  Ital    Eng

Download or read book Le Nozze di Figaro a comic opera in four acts by L da Ponte founded on the comedy of P A Caron de Beaumarchais the music by Mozart The Libretto edited translated by M Maggioni etc Ital Eng written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book L  ethos del mercato  Un introduzione ai fondamenti antropologici e relazionali dell economia

Download or read book L ethos del mercato Un introduzione ai fondamenti antropologici e relazionali dell economia written by Luigino Bruni and published by Bruno Mondadori. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New Practical and Easy Method of Learning the Italian Language

Download or read book A New Practical and Easy Method of Learning the Italian Language written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Book A New Practical and Easy Method of Learning the Italian Language

Download or read book A New Practical and Easy Method of Learning the Italian Language written by Franz Ahn and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast

Download or read book The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast written by Giordano Bruno and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in London in 1584, The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast is Giordano Bruno’s first work of moral philosophy. It is dedicated with a long Explicatory Letter to Elizabeth I’s most cultured courtier, Sir Philip Sidney. It is a book about moral reform, expelling the beasts of evil, and putting virtues in their place. Its theme is presented as an allegorical drama in which ancient myths assume modern meanings questioning the ways in which moral and religious reform have been conceived in both the ancient world and the cultures of Renaissance Europe. This new Italian text, based on the original printed text of 1584 held in the British Library, presents a less modernized version than those presently available, while maintaining a modern page format. The aim is to provide a text closer to the sound of Bruno’s original mix of classical Tuscan Italian and Neapolitan dialectical forms. This edition also presents a new translation designed to render Bruno’s complex and baroque Italian into easily readable modern English. Hilary Gatti introduces The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast, underlining Bruno’s meta-literary reflection on the nature of allegory and myth as well as the dramatic structure of his text. Drama, philosophy, and religion combine in this work to give an epic dimension to the perennial cosmic battle between evil and good.

Book Giacomo Meyerbeer

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  • Author : Robert Ignatius Letellier
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2008-10-01
  • ISBN : 1443800953
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book Giacomo Meyerbeer written by Robert Ignatius Letellier and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fame of Giacomo Meyerbeer is associated principally with the operatic stage, but he wrote for the voice extensively in other genres as well, including non-operatic stage works, occasional public works, sacred music, choral music and songs, This volume collates and presents, in the original and in English translation, as many of these texts as have been published, or whose manuscripts have proved accessible to the editors. There are six parts devoted to the various genres . Part 1 looks at the non-operatic stage works, the dramatic cantata he wrote at the beginning of his Italian period Gli Amori di Teolinda (1817), the masque written for Prussian court festivities Das Hoffest zu Ferrara (1842), and songs included in plays. Part 2 is devoted to the occasional works Meyerbeer was asked to write throughout his life, twelve cantatas born out of commissions to celebrate dynastic events and to praise the deeds of famous men. Their festive purposes mark anniversaries of illustrious figures (like Guttenberg, Frederick the Great, Schiller, Rauch), commemorate events in national life like the Wars of Liberation recalled in the choral soliloquy, the Bayerische Schützen Marsch (1831, to words by King Ludwig I of Bavaria), or the visit of Queen Victoria to the Rhine in 1845, or the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of the King and Queen of Prussia in 1854. Linked to these are the part songs for male chorus given in Part 4, a ubiquitous German choral tradition; most of them were written for the Friends of the Berlin Singakademie, and used the themes so typical of communal merrymaking and affirmation—unity, friendship, patriotism, homeland, hunting: Part 3 surveys the texts for sacred music, from the early oratorio Gott und die Natur (1811) to the canticle Ineffable splendeur de la gloire eternelle drawn from Thomas à Kempis (1862-3). The young composer’s skills and serious endeavours were demonstrated by the song cycle using seven religious odes by Klopstock (Sieben Geistliche Gesänge, 1812, revised 1841)—an early involvement with religious texts that continued intermittently throughout his life, and manifested itself preeminently in his eight-part setting of Psalm 91 (1853) and his beautiful choral version of the Our Father (1857). Meyerbeer also wrote songs consistently, from his six Italian ariettas of 1810 to a canon for two voices completed in December 1862. These Lieder, mélodies and canzonette reflected the circumstances of his career, the various cultural milieux he moved in. They also helped to keep his name in the public eye in the wake of his great operatic successes, gaining popular currency by publication in musical journals. Part 5 provides the words of 54 of the 83 songs that are listed in his diaries. These texts are given a visual dimension by some 36 illustrations, mostly the beautifully engraved titles pages of many of the published works.

Book What Makes It Great

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  • Author : Rob Kapilow
  • Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
  • Release : 2011-08-24
  • ISBN : 111805816X
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book What Makes It Great written by Rob Kapilow and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh guide to classical music from the acclaimed creator of NPR's "What Makes It Great"TM Rob Kapilow has been helping audiences hear more in great music for two decades with his What Makes It Great? series on NPR's Performance Today, at Lincoln Center, and in concert halls throughout the US and Canada. In this book, he focuses on short masterpieces by major composers to help you understand the essence of each composer's genius and how each piece—which can be heard on the book's web site—transformed the musical language of its time. Kapilow's down-to-earth approach makes music history easy to grasp no matter what your musical background. Explores the musical styles and genius of great classical composers, including Vivaldi, Handel, J.S. Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Chopin, Puccini, Wagner, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, and Debussy Features an accompanying web site where you can see, hear, and download each short masterpiece and all of the book's musical examples Introduces you in depth to popular pieces from the classical repertoire, including "Spring" from the Four Seasons (Vivaldi), "Dove Sono" from The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart), the Prelude to Tristan and Isolde (Wagner), and "Trepak" from The Nutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky) Written by acclaimed composer, conductor, and pianist Rob Kapilow: "You could practically see the light bulbs going on above people's heads" (The Philadelphia Inquirer); "Rob Kapilow is awfully good at what he does" (The Boston Globe); "A wonderful guy who brings music alive!" (Katie Couric) This book, along with the music on the companion web site, is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in classical music, whether first-time listener, experienced concertgoer or performing musician, offering an entree into the world of eighteen great composers and a collection of individual masterpieces spanning almost two hundred years.

Book Le Proph  te

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  • Author : Giacomo Meyerbeer
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  • Release : 1849
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Le Proph te written by Giacomo Meyerbeer and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book La Molinara

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  • Release : 1817
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book La Molinara written by and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: