Drama and Opera: American drama
Author: Alfred Bates
Publisher:
Published: 1903
Total Pages: 754
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes selections, epitomes, outlines of dramas, and some entire plays.
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The Musical as Drama
Author: H. Scott McMillin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-10-12
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0691164622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDerived from the colorful traditions of vaudeville, burlesque, revue, and operetta, the musical has blossomed into America's most popular form of theater. Scott McMillin has developed a fresh aesthetic theory of this underrated art form, exploring the musical as a type of drama deserving the kind of critical and theoretical regard given to Chekhov or opera. Until recently, the musical has been considered either an "integrated" form of theater or an inferior sibling of opera. McMillin demonstrates that neither of these views is accurate, and that the musical holds true to the disjunctive and irreverent forms of popular entertainment from which it arose a century ago. Critics and composers have long held the musical to the standards applied to opera, asserting that each piece should work together to create a seamless drama. But McMillin argues that the musical is a different form of theater, requiring the suspension of the plot for song. The musical's success lies not in the smoothness of unity, but in the crackle of difference. While disparate, the dancing, music, dialogue, and songs combine to explore different aspects of the action and the characters. Discussing composers and writers such as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Kander and Ebb, Leonard Bernstein, and Jerome Kern, The Musical as Drama describes the continuity of this distinctively American dramatic genre, from the shows of the 1920s and 1930s to the musicals of today.
The Soap Opera Evolution
Author: Marilyn J. Matelski
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2012-08-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780786472819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first daytime dramas began as early as 1930, with Painted Dreams. Programmers soon discovered that housewives often controlled the purse strings, and soaps become an advertiser's gold mine. They now generate more than $900 million in network revenues annually. Around 50 million people (reportedly including congressmen and rock stars as well as two-thirds of all American television-watching women) tune in each weekday afternoon for a dosage of love, loss and libido via "the soaps." This scholarly study examines the soap phenomenon from a sociological point of view. Included in the analysis is classic research by Rudolf Arnheim, Herta Hartzog and Helen Kaufman as well as contemporary studies and previously unpublished research. The evolution of popular plotlines and characters, as assessment of reality in today's plots, which people watch soaps and why, specific plotlines for the 13 soaps presently aired, 40+ family trees illustrating program changes, the future of soaps--all are covered.
Opera As Drama
Author: Joseph Kerman
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2013-08-21
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 030783400X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPassionate, 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.
Opera and Drama
Author: Richard Wagner
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780803297654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith 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.
Tonality as Drama
Author: Edward David Latham
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1574412493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on the fields of dramaturgy, music theory, and historical musicology, this book answers a question about twentieth-century music: Why does tonality persist in opera, even after it has been abandoned in other genres?
A History of the American Drama
Author: Arthur Hobson Quinn
Publisher:
Published: 1923
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of American Drama
Author: Jeffrey H. Richards
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-02
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 0199731497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolution during the pre-war and post-war periods. It traces the emergence of different types of American drama including protest plays, reform drama, political drama, experimental drama, urban plays, feminist drama and realist plays. This volume also analyzes the works of some of the most notable American playwrights including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller and those written by women dramatists.
The Facts on File Companion to American Drama
Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 657
ISBN-13: 1438129661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
Encyclopedia of American Drama
Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Published: 2015-04-22
Total Pages: 2466
ISBN-13: 1438140762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to American classics such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Thornton Wilder's Our Town to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
