Bulletin
Bulletin

Author: Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City

Publisher:

Published: 1905

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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Citizens in a Strange Land
Citizens in a Strange Land

Author: Hermann Wellenreuther

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 0271069619

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In Citizens in a Strange Land, Hermann Wellenreuther examines the broadsides—printed single sheets—produced by the Pennsylvania German community. These broadsides covered topics ranging from local controversies and politics to devotional poems and hymns. Each one is a product of and reaction to a particular historical setting. To understand them fully, Wellenreuther systematically reconstructs Pennsylvania’s print culture, the material conditions of life, the problems German settlers faced, the demands their communities made on the individual settlers, the complications to be overcome, and the needs to be satisfied. He shows how these broadsides provided advice, projections, and comment on phases of life from cradle to grave.

The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute
The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute

Author: Jessica Waldoff

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-11-02

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1108629482

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Since its premiere in 1791, The Magic Flute has been staged continuously and remains, to this day, Mozart's most-performed opera worldwide. This comprehensive, user-friendly, up-to-date critical guide considers the opera in a variety of contexts to provide a fresh look at a work that has continued to fascinate audiences from Mozart's time to ours. It serves both as an introduction for those encountering the opera for the first time and as a treasury of recent scholarship for those who know it very well. Containing twenty-one essays by leading scholars, and drawing on recent research and commentary, this Companion presents original insights on music, dialogue, and spectacle, and offers a range of new perspectives on key issues, including the opera's representation of exoticism, race, and gender. Organized in four sections – historical context, musical analysis, critical approaches, and reception – it provides an essential framework for understanding The Magic Flute and its extraordinary afterlife.