Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera
Author: John A. Rice
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780226711256
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Maligned Master
Author: Volkmar Braunbehrens
Publisher: Fromm International
Published: 1994-03
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780880641555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna
Author: Mary Kathleen Hunter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-11-27
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780521572392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays, presented by an internationally known team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development of opera buffa in the second half of the eighteenth century. Although today Mozart remains one of the most well-known figures of the period, the era was filled with composers, librettists, writers and performers who created and developed opera buffa. Among the topics examined are the relationship of Viennese opera buffa to French theatre; Mozart and eighteenth-century comedy; gender, nature and bourgeois society on Mozart's buffa stage; as well as close analyses of key works such as Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro.
A Short History of Opera
Author: Donald Jay Grout
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 1049
ISBN-13: 0231119585
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day."--Jacket.
Music in Eighteenth-Century Austria
Author: David Wyn Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-11-02
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0521028590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the little-understood period of music history in which Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven worked.
E. T. A. Hoffmann, Cosmopolitanism, and the Struggle for German Opera
Author: Francien Markx
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-11-02
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9004309578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this first monograph on E. T. A. Hoffmann and opera, Francien Markx examines Hoffmann’s writings on opera and the challenges they pose to established narratives of aesthetic autonomy, the search for a national opera, and Hoffmann’s biography. Markx discusses Hoffmann’s lifelong fascination with opera against the backdrop of eighteenth-century theater reform, the creation of national identity, contemporary performance practices and musical and aesthetic discourses as voiced by C. M. von Weber, A. W. Schlegel, Heine, and Wagner, among others. The book reconsiders the traditional view that German opera followed a deterministic trajectory toward Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk and reveals a cosmopolitan spirit in Hoffmann’s operatic vision, most notably exemplified by his controversial advocacy for Spontini in Berlin.
Opera
Author: Guy A. Marco
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-05-03
Total Pages: 655
ISBN-13: 113557801X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.
Opera as Anthropology
Author: Vlado Kotnik
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016-09-23
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1443814229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contemplates the relationship between opera and anthropology. It rests on the following central arguments: on the one hand, opera is quite a new and “exotic” topic for anthropologists, while, on the other, anthropology is still perceived as an unusual approach to opera. Both initial arguments are indicative of the current situation of the relationship between anthropological discipline and opera research. The book introduces the work of anthropologists and ethnographers whose personal and professional affinity for opera has been explicated in their academic and biographical accounts. Anthropological, ethnological, ethnographic, and semiotic accounts of opera by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Leiris, William O. Beeman, Denis Laborde, Paul Atkinson, and Philippe-Joseph Salazar establish that opera can be a pertinent object of anthropological interest, ethnographic investigation, cultural analysis, and historical reflection. By touching on opera not merely as a musical, aesthetic, or artistic category, but as a social, cultural, historical, and transnational phenomenon that, over the last four centuries, has significantly influenced and reflected the identity of Western culture and society, this monograph suggests that opera and anthropology no longer need be alien to one another.
Mozart in Vienna
Author: Simon P. Keefe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-21
Total Pages: 719
ISBN-13: 1108394108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMozart's greatest works were written in Vienna in the decade before his death (1781–1791). This biography focuses on Mozart's dual roles as a performer and composer and reveals how his compositional processes are affected by performance-related concerns. It traces consistencies and changes in Mozart's professional persona and his modus operandi and sheds light on other prominent musicians, audience expectations, publishing, and concert and dramatic practices and traditions. Giving particular prominence to primary sources, Simon P. Keefe offers new biographical and critical perspectives on the man and his music, highlighting his extraordinary ability to engage with the competing demands of singers and instrumentalists, publishing and public performance, and concerts and dramatic productions in the course of a hectic, diverse and financially uncertain freelance career. This comprehensive and accessible volume is essential for Mozart lovers and scholars alike, exploring his Viennese masterpieces and the people and environments that shaped them.
The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart's Vienna
Author: Dorothea Link
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2022-11-22
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 0252053656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDorothea Link examines singers’ voices and casting practices in late eighteenth-century Italian opera as exemplified in Vienna’s court opera from 1783 to 1791. The investigation into the singers’ voices proceeds on two levels: understanding the performers in terms of the vocal-dramatic categories employed in opera at the time; and creating vocal profiles for the principal singers from the music composed expressly for them. In addition, Link contextualizes the singers within the company in order to expose the court opera's casting practices. Authoritative and insightful, The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart's Vienna offers a singular look at a musical milieu and a key to addressing the performance-practice problem of how to cast the Mozart roles today.
