Contextualizing Melodrama in the Czech Lands: In Concert and on Stage

ISBN-13: 9780367539641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 260 str.

Judith A. Mabary

Opis

Judith Mabary’s important volume will be of interest not only to musicologists, but those working in Central and East European Studies, Voice Studies, European Theatre and those studying music and nationalism.

Spis treści

1. The Musical Melodrama: Rationality Overruled;  2. The Path to Benda’s Melodramas: From the Jesuit Schuldrama through Rousseau’s Experiment in Pygmalion;  3. A Place in the Theatre: The Impact of Jiří Benda and the Seyler Company on Melodrama;  4. The Sacred and the Profane: Melodrama in Prague;  5. From Paris and the Boulevard du Crime to Prague’s Estates Theatre: Tracing the Popular Melodrama;  6. Zdeněk Fibich and the Revitalization of the Classical Melodrama;  7. Fibich’s Concert Melodramas: A Closer Look;  8. Fibich’s Hippodamie: Melodrama for the Dramatic Stage;  9. Epilogue

O autorze

Judith A. Mabary is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Her research interests center on Czech music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, namely the life and works of Antonín Dvořák, Zdeňek Fibich, Bohuslav Martinů, and Vítězslava Kaprálová as well as the genre of Czech melodrama.