Bluebeard re-paired ... Adapted ... by Henry Bellingham, etc
Author: Henri Meilhac
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 70
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Author: Henri Meilhac
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 70
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jacques Offenbach
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henri Meilhac
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Casie Hermansson
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1604733535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. This is a major study of the tale and its many variants in English: from the 18th and 19th century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, to the 20th century in music, literature, art, film, and theatre.
Author: Casie E. Hermansson
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2010-03-05
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1628467622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales of all time. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. Astonishingly, this fairy tale was a nursery room staple, one of the tales translated into English from Charles Perrault's French Mother Goose Tales. Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition is the first major study of the tale and its many variants (some, like “Mr. Fox,” native to England and America) in English: from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, through the twentieth century in music, literature, art, film, and theater. Chronicling the story's permutations, the book presents examples of English true-crime figures, male and female, called Bluebeards, from King Henry VIII to present-day examples. Bluebeard explores rare chapbooks and their illustrations and the English transformation of Bluebeard into a scimitar-wielding Turkish tyrant in a massively influential melodramatic spectacle in 1798. Following the killer's trail over the years, Casie E. Hermansson looks at the impact of nineteenth-century translations into English of the German fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and the particularly English story of how Bluebeard came to be known as a pirate. This book will provide readers and scholars an invaluable and thorough grasp on the many strands of this tale over centuries of telling.
Author: Jacques Offenbach
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R. J. Martin
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 41
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Published: 1866*
Total Pages: 49
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carl S. Leafstedt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999-11-04
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0195355059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book-length examination of Bartók's 1911 opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, one of the twentieth century's enduring operatic works. Writing in an engaging style, Leafstedt adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the opera by introducing, in addition to music-dramatic analysis, a number of topics that are new to the field of Bartók studies. These new areas of critical and scholarly terrain include a detailed literary study of the libretto and a gender-focused analysis of the opera's female character, Judith. Leafstedt begins with a short introductory chapter that places Duke Bluebeard's Castle within the context of Bartók's early composing career, his discovery of folk music, and its impact on his later work. The book goes on to explore the composition's troubled history, its failure to win two early Hungarian opera competitions, and the three versions of the ending that resulted, discussed here in depth for the first time. The core of the book is devoted to the musical and dramatic organization of the opera and offers an analysis of the seven individual door scenes, including a detailed analysis of scene six, the "lake of tears" scene, illustrating the work's complex tonal organization and dramatic structure. A separate chapter places this darkly psychological version of the Bluebeard story within the broader context of European history and literature. Throughout the book, Leafstedt draws on original Hungarian source material, much of it newly translated by the author and available here for the first time in English, and he includes a generous selection of musical examples. Inside Bluebeard's Castle is an ideal starting point for research in twentieth-century music, Hungarian cultural history, and opera studies, as well as an invaluable guide for anyone interested in Bartók's only opera.
Author: William Davenport Adams
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 646
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