Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance
Author: Lynn Garafola
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2005-01-28
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780819566744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelected writings illuminate a century of international dance.
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The Paris Opéra Ballet
Author: Ivor Guest
Publisher: Dance Books Limited
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe cradle of ballet, tracing the origin of ballet as a theatre art back to its foundation by Louis XIV in 1669.
French 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.
The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930
Author: Susan Rutherford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-08-10
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 052185167X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the female opera singer during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Dictionnaire Napoleon
Author: Jean F. Tulard
Publisher:
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780828824910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pope's Body
Author: Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000-07
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780226034379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and death, yet at the same time a corporeal representation of Christ and the Church, eternity and salvation. Using an array of evidence from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, Agostino Paravicini- Bagliani addresses this paradox. He studies the rituals, metaphors, and images of the pope's body as they developed over time and shows how they resulted in the expectation that the pope's body be simultaneously physical and metaphorical. Also included is a particular emphasis on the thirteenth century when, during the pontificate of Boniface VIII (1294-1303), the papal court became the focus of medicine and the natural sciences as physicians devised ways to protect the pope's health and prolong his life. Masterfully translated from the Italian, this engaging history of the pope's body provides a new perspective for readers to understand the papacy, both historically and in our own time.
Opera Acts
Author: Karen Henson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-01-15
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1107004268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case studies of four figures - the late Verdi baritone Victor Maurel; Bizet's first Carmen, Célestine Galli-Marié; Massenet's muse of the 1880s and 1890s, Sibyl Sanderson; and the early Wagner star Jean de Reszke - Karen Henson argues that singers in the late nineteenth century continued to be important, but in ways that were not conventionally 'vocal'. Instead they enjoyed a freedom and creativity based on their ability to express text, act and communicate physically, and exploit the era's media. By these and other means, singers played a crucial role in the creation of opera up to the end of the nineteenth century.
Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair
Author: Annegret Fauser
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1580461859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1889 Exposition universelle in Paris is famous as a turning point in the history of French music, and modern music generally. This book explores the ways in which music was used, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the Exposition universelle. It also reveals the sociopolitical uses of music in France during the 19th century.
Satie the Bohemian
Author: Steven Moore Whiting
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1999-02-18
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 0191584525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKErik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian subculture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafés-concerts. Yet apologists have all too often downplayed this background as potentially harmful to the reputation of a composer whom they regarded as the progenitor of modern French music. Whiting argues, on the contrary, that Satie's two decades in and around Montmartre decisively shaped his aesthetic priorities and compositional strategies. He gives the fullest account to date of Satie's professional activities as a popular musician, and of how he transferred the parodic techniques and musical idioms of cabaret entertainment to works for concert hall. From the esoteric Gymnopédies to the bizarre suites of the 1910s and avant-garde ballets of the 1920s (not to mention music journalism and playwriting), Satie's output may be daunting in its sheer diversity and heterodoxy; but his radical transvaluation of received artistic values makes far better sense once placed in the fascinating context of bohemian Montmartre.
Composing the Citizen
Author: Jann Pasler
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 812
ISBN-13: 0520257405
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Jann Pasler's remarkable Composing the Citizen reaches well beyond what any book concerned with music in society has ever attempted. Concentrating on France of the Third Republic, from the 1870s through the early 1900s, she demonstrates convincingly how music--whether new, old, popular, or élite, whether performed at institutions of state (such as the Opéra), the Folies Bergère, concert halls, or the zoo--helped to redefine what it meant to be French under evolving political circumstances. Equally adept in the languages of history, sociology, political science, reception history, and music analysis, Pasler establishes music's cultural significance and implicitly illuminates the role it can still play in countries like the United States."--Philip Gossett, The University of Chicago and University of Rome, La Sapienza "Composing the Citizen offers nothing less than a new paradigm for the study of musical cultures. Rather than forcing French music into the moulds developed for the Austro-German canon, Pasler simply studies the social uses of music in fin-de-siècle France. Her painstaking archival research allows her to present an astonishingly detailed account of musical practices, tastes, and activities; new names and genres come to the fore to engage in a variety of dynamic artistic scenes most of us never knew--or only thought we did by virtue of having read Proust. A masterwork of a scholar at the very peak of her career."--Susan McClary, MacArthur Fellow 1995 and author of Georges Bizet: Carmen and Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madgrigal "Utilité publique: a common-sense republican notion of sweeping consequence. In this greatly anticipated volume Jann Pasler uses it as touchstone, showing how and why musical life so mattered in Third-Republic France: layer after layer of it, in a journey that takes us past the Opéra and Conservatoire to the pops concerts, department stores, the zoo, the world's fairs, the overseas colonies. Companionable as a well-worn Baedeker, seductive as Roger Shattuck's The Banquet Years, this exquisitely styled and paced achievement is also a compelling read."--D. Kern Holoman, author of Berlioz and The Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, 1828-1967
