The Lost Tradition of Dvorák's Operas
The Lost Tradition of Dvorák's Operas

Author: John Holland

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-09-05

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1666930156

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The Lost Tradition of Dvořák’s Operas: Myth, Music, and Nationalism examines Antonín Dvořák’s operas, specifically Jakobín and Rusalka, from a critical standpoint, focusing on such criteria as tonal structures, thematic material and motives, subject matter, Czech folklore and musical influences, textual language, nationalism, characters, compositional history, performance history, and reception. The intent of this research is to vindicate and validate Dvořák as an opera composer; to show him to be an overlooked master in Nineteenth Century opera and the bridge between the Verdi and Wagner traditions. Now, well over one hundred years after his death, it is now time for Dvořák to take his rightful place in the operatic echelon.

The Orchestration of the Arts — A Creative Symbiosis of Existential Powers
The Orchestration of the Arts — A Creative Symbiosis of Existential Powers

Author: M. Kronegger

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 9401734119

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Regardless of the subject matter, our studies are always searching for a sense of the universal in the specific. Drawing, etchings and paintings are a way of communicating ideas and emotions. The key word here is to communicate. Whether the audience sees the work as laborious or poetic depends on the creative genius of the artist. Some painters use the play of light passing through a landscape or washing over a figure to create an evocative moment that will be both timeless and transitory. The essential role of art remains what is has always been, a way of human expression. This is the role that our participants concentrate on as they discuss art as the expression of the spirit, a creative act through which the artist makes manifest what is within him. Spirit suggests the unity of feeling and thought. Avoiding broad generalities, our participants address specific areas in orchestration with music, architecture, literature and phenomenology. Profs. Souiller, Scholz, Etlin, Sweetser, Josephs show us at what point art is an intimate, profound expression and the magic of a civilization as a whole, springing from its evolving thoughts and embodying ideals, such as the Renaissance, the Baroque, Modernism and at what point it reflects the trans formation of a particular society and its mode of life.

Andyel and His Magic Daddy
Andyel and His Magic Daddy

Author: Helen J. Keating

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11-23

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 9781739952709

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About Andyel and his Magic Daddy: The Waterman is a traditional Czech character, immortalised by well-known Czech writers and artists, and inspiring these stories. His nephew Grimble inherits his extraordinary house in a lake where, with his wife Monica and son Andyel, he works his magic spells for the benefit of the people of his village. About me: As the daughter of an inspirational teacher of English I have always loved books and writing, though my professional life, after an Oxford music degree, has been in music, also inspired by my keen amateur musician parents. I have played the piano, cello, double bass as well as professionally singing, and conducting as well as teaching. Now in early retirement I can concentrate on writing, embroidery and tapestry weaving and serving the town on the Community Council.

Antonín Dvořák, My Father
Antonín Dvořák, My Father

Author: Otakar Dvořák

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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This book is a personal biography by Antonin Dvořák's son who at the age of seventy-five years old decided to "write about the events missing from the other books about my father." For musicologists, Otakar's biography of his father contains many new items, but basically the book portrays Dvořák as a father.

Music Criticism in Vienna, 1896-1897
Music Criticism in Vienna, 1896-1897

Author: Sandra McColl

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780198165644

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Music Criticism in Vienna records a culture in which musical criticism had achieved the status of a minor art form. The period covered - October 1896 to December 1897 - was an eventful time in Vienna. Bruckner died, then Brahms; Mahler arrived; premieres of works by Czech composers coincidedwith increasing tension in the Empire between Czechs and Germans; Puccini's La Boheme reached Vienna on its sensational progress around the world; and the great programme music debate continued. These events and issues were recorded and debated by some two dozen critics ranging from Eduard Hanslick,widely credited with (and blamed for) raising music criticism to an art, to Heinrich Schenker. The focus of Sandra McColl's monograph is unashamedly on the critics themselves, and her reconstruction of the climate of debate about whatever music or musicians came to their notice. She illuminates theintellectual climate in which the music was created, performed and received, and provides a foundation for the study of musical criticism in the post-Hanslick generation.