The Cambridge Companion to Ballet
Author: Marion Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-06-07
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780521539869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays by international writers on the evolution of ballet.
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The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera
Author: Anthony R. DelDonna
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-06-25
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 0521873584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe perfect accompaniment to courses on eighteenth-century opera for both students and teachers, this Companion is a definitive reference resource.
The Cambridge Companion to French Music
Author: Simon Trezise
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-02-19
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0521877946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis accessible Companion provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to French music from the early middle ages to the present.
The Cambridge Companion to Levinas
Author: Simon Critchley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-07-25
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521665650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA convenient and accessible guide to Levinas, first published in 2002, which emphasises the interdisciplinary significance of his work.
The Cambridge Companion to Ravel
Author: Deborah Mawer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-08-24
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780521648561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive introduction to the life, music and compositional aesthetic of Maurice Ravel.
The Cambridge Companion to the Musical
Author: William A. Everett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-21
Total Pages: 503
ISBN-13: 1107114748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn expanded and updated edition of this acclaimed, wide-ranging survey of musical theatre in New York, London, and elsewhere.
The Cambridge Companion to Moliere
Author: David Bradby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-09-14
Total Pages: 11
ISBN-13: 1139827294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed introduction to Molière and his plays, this Companion evokes his own theatrical career, his theatres, patrons, the performers and theatre staff with whom he worked, and the various publics he and his troupes entertained with such success. It looks at his particular brands of comedy and satire. L'École des femmes, Le Tartuffe, Dom Juan, Le Misanthrope, L'Avare and Les Femmes savantes are examined from a variety of different viewpoints, and through the eyes of different ages and cultures. The comedies-ballets, a genre invented by Molière and his collaborators, are re-instated to the central position which they held in his œuvre in Molière's own lifetime; his two masterpieces in this genre, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme and Le Malade imaginaire, have chapters to themselves. Finally, the Companion looks at modern directors' theatre, exploring the central role played by productions of his work in successive 'revolutions' in the dramatic arts in France.
The Cambridge Companion to Allegory
Author: Rita Copeland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-03-25
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0521862299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the development of allegory in the European and American tradition from antiquity to the modern era.
The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera
Author: David Charlton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-09-04
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 1139825895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 2003 Companion is a fascinating and accessible exploration of the world of grand opera. Through this volume a team of scholars and writers on opera examine those important Romantic operas which embraced the Shakespearean sweep of tragedy, history, love in time of conflict, and the struggle for national self-determination. Rival nations, rival religions and violent resolutions are common elements, with various social or political groups represented in the form of operatic choruses. The book traces the origins and development of a style created during an increasingly technical age, which exploited the world-renowned skills of Parisian stage-designers, artists, and dancers as well as singers. It analyses in detail the grand operas by Rossini, Auber, Meyerbeer and Halévy, discusses grand opera in Russia and Germany, and also in the Czech lands, Italy, Britain and the Americas. The volume also includes an essay by the renowned opera director David Pountney.
A Company of Swans
Author: Eva Ibbotson
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2008-09-04
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 0230737889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Company of Swans is a sweeping tale of romance, freedom and the beauty of dance from award-winning author, Eva Ibbotson, with a new introduction by Joanna Nadin. Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good. Performing in the grand opera houses is everything Harriet dreamed of, and falling in love with an aristocratic exile makes her new life complete. Swept away by it all, she is unaware that her father and intended fiancé have begun to track her down . . . 'I have binged on Eva Ibbotson . . . her elegantly written, witty and well-observed fables' Nigella Lawson, The Times Rediscover Eva Ibbotson, award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, in her sweeping historical romances, including The Morning Gift, A Song For Summer and The Secret Countess, originally published as A Countess Below Stairs, Magic Flutes, originally published as The Reluctant Heiress, Madensky Square and A Company of Swans.
