Massenet's Werther
Author: Burton D. Fisher
Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
Published: 2002-06-01
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 110200913X
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Massenet
Author: Demar Irvine
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781574670240
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Amadeus). This superbly detailed biography examines the life of Jules Massenet (1842-1912), who was at the heart of Parisian musical life during a period of extraordinary artistic vitality.
Massenet's Thaïs
Author: Burton D. Fisher
Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 1102009121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBurton D. Fisher's extremely popular Mini Guides feature Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and an insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis of the opera.
The Opera Lover's Companion
Author: Charles Osborne
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13: 9780300123739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by a well-known authority, this book consists of 175 entries that set some of the most popular operas within the context of their composer's career, outline the plot, discuss the music, and more.
Beyond Fingal's Cave
Author: James Porter
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1580469450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemonstrates the profound impact of The Poems of Ossian on composers of the Romantic Era and later: Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Massenet, and many others. Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination is the first study in English of musical compositions inspired by the poems published in the 1760s and attributed to a purported ancient Scottish bard named Ossian. From around 1780 onwards, the poems stimulated poets, artists, and composers in Europe as well as North America to break away from the formality of the Enlightenment. The admiration for Ossian's poems -shared by Napoleon, Goethe, and Thomas Jefferson - was an important stimulus in the development of Romanticism and the music that was a central part of it. More important still was the view of the German cultural philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder, who saw past the controversy over the poems' authenticity to the traditional elements in these heroic poems and their mood of lament. James Porter's long-awaited book traces the traditional sources used by James Macpherson for his epoch-making prose poems and examines crucial works by composers such as Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Massenet. Many other relatively unknown composers were also moved to write operas, cantatas, songs, and instrumental pieces, some of which have proven to be powerfully evocative and well worth performing and recording.
Little Biographies ...: MARTENS, F.H. : Borodine. Brahms. Foster. Friedman. Handel. Massenet. Mendelssohn. Paderewski. Paganini. Rachmaninoff. Rubinstein. Schönberg. Sinding
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrench Opera at the Fin de Siècle
Author: Steven Huebner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-02-02
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780199719921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven Huebner gives an accessible and colorful account of such operatic favorites as Manon and Werther by Massenet, Louise by Charpentier, and lesser-known gems such as Chabrier's Le Roi malgré lui and Chausson's Le Roi Arthus.
Massenet and His Operas
Author: Henry T. Finck
Publisher: New York ; London : John Lane
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 298
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen True Love Came to China
Author: Lynn Pan
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2015-11-01
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9888208802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Guardian's Best Books of 2015 Most people suppose that the whole world knows what it is to love; that romantic love is universal, quintessentially human. Such a supposition has to be able to meet three challenges. It has to justify its underlying assumption that all cultures mean the same thing by the word ‘love’ regardless of language. It has to engage with the scholarly debate on whether or not romantic love was invented in Europe and is uniquely Western. And it must be able to explain why early twentieth-century Chinese writers claimed that they had never known true love, or love by modern Western standards. By addressing these three challenges through a literary, historical, philosophical, biographical and above all comparative approach, this highly original work shows how love’s profile in China shifted with the rejection of arranged marriages and concubinage in favour of free individual choice, monogamy and a Western model of romantic love. ‘This book, Lynn Pan’s best to date, adds a wonderful new angle by encouraging us, via comparison, to better appreciate how unusual, even in some ways exotic, a part of the Western past we take for granted, as though it were natural, actually is. While the reader will learn a great deal about Chinese literary and cultural traditions from this book, if read with an open mind the Western reader may end up rethinking things about his or her tradition just as deeply.’ —Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History, University of California at Irvine ‘Nobody writes about China quite as brilliantly as Lynn Pan, who in this new, illuminating work on love showcases her trademark erudition entwined with a novelist’s sensibility. Pan’s rare skill makes the book a treat from start to finish; a sumptuous, deft and moving analysis of China’s relationship with love.’ —Mishi Saran, author of Chasing the Monk’s Shadow: A Journey in the Footsteps of Xuanzang and The Other Side of Light
