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Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera
ISBN: 9781400032310 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If the opera world is full of intrigue, double meanings, and devious dramatics, then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous Metropolitan Opera, where politics, ambition, and oversized egos have traditionally taken center stage along with some of the world s richest music. Drawing on her fifteen years as its press representative, Johanna Fiedler explodes the traditional secrecy that surrounds the Met in this wonderfully entertaining account of its tumuluous history.
Fiedler chronicles the Met s early days as a home for legends like Toscanini, Mahler, and Caruso, and gives a... If the opera world is full of intrigue, double meanings, and devious dramatics, then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous Metropolitan...
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94,76 |
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Puccini Without Excuses: A Refreshing Reassessment of the World's Most Popular Composer
ISBN: 9781400077786 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Puccini is the most beloved composer of opera in the world: one quarter of all opera performances in the U.S. are of his operas, his music pervades movie soundtracks, and his plots have infiltrated our popular culture. But, although Puccini s art still captivates audiences and the popularity of such works as Tosca, La Boh?me, and Madama Butterfly has never waned, he has long been a victim of critical snobbery and cultural marginalization. In this witty and informative guide for beginners and fans alike, William Berger sets the record straight, reclaiming Puccini as a... Puccini is the most beloved composer of opera in the world: one quarter of all opera performances in the U.S. are of his operas, his music pervades... |
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83,39 |
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The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner and His Festival Theatre in Bayreuth
ISBN: 9781410223821 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1897, this was among the earliest works about Wagner and his works to come from outside Bayreuth and presented careful and probing analyses of both the poems and the music, touching for the first time on the essential themes and questions of Wagner's life and work, the use of the leit-motif and the universe of his creative work. Contains all of the original illustrations. A work explaining and interpreting Wagner and his music, which is extremely valuable for the French point of view which it presents. This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries and...
First published in 1897, this was among the earliest works about Wagner and his works to come from outside Bayreuth and presented careful and probing ...
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93,36 |
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The Twilight of Belcanto: Including an Interview with Virginia Zeani
ISBN: 9781418459567 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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105,96 |
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I Dream a World: The Operas of William Grant Still
ISBN: 9781557287892 / Angielski / Twarda / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book to thoroughly examine the operas of this noted African American composer.
The first book to thoroughly examine the operas of this noted African American composer.
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126,51 |
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Grand Opera: Mirror of the Western Mind
ISBN: 9781566630344 / Angielski / Twarda / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Employing a remarkable combination of expertise in music, opera, and psychological insight, Eric Plaut explores the great operas and their composers from the time of the French Revolution to the onset of the First World War. He sees opera as the preeminent medium for expressing human willfulness, its characters driven by emotions of passionate intensity. The great composers of opera were also governed by their feelings and heavily influenced by the life of their time. Weaving together these social, psychological, and historical strains, Dr. Plaut investigates the meaning behind eighteen of...
Employing a remarkable combination of expertise in music, opera, and psychological insight, Eric Plaut explores the great operas and their composers f...
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97,30 |
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Enrico Caruso: My Father and My Family
ISBN: 9781574670226 / Angielski / Miękka / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This abridged edition includes the text covering Caruso's life and death, plus a current discography. Drawing on the personal recollections of the Caruso brothers, archival material preserved by the family and research, the book is a tribute to the man and his vocal legacy.
This abridged edition includes the text covering Caruso's life and death, plus a current discography. Drawing on the personal recollections of the Car...
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126,51 |
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Opera in Context: Essays on Historical Staging from the Late Renaissance to the Time of Puccini
ISBN: 9781574670325 / Angielski / Twarda / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These essays examine representative operatic productions from diverse national schools and periods, from Purcell to Mozart, Verdi, Wagner and Puccini. Historical performance practice and other musical matters are considered as well as the elements of stagecraft, including scenery, costumes and lighting.
These essays examine representative operatic productions from diverse national schools and periods, from Purcell to Mozart, Verdi, Wagner and Puccini....
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199,58 |
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The Operagoer's Guide: One Hundred Stories and Commentaries
ISBN: 9781574670653 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Amadeus). In this volume, Father M. Owen Lee writes for the 21st-century operagoer, briskly and stylishly telling the stories of 100 of the world's greatest music dramas from Aida to Die Zauberflote . The stories told in music by Mozart, Wagner, Verdi, Puccini and Strauss are brought to life here with wit, insight and boundless enthusiasm. When compiling and composing this pocket-sized handbook, Fr. Lee considered the unique needs of the modern operagoer. Contemporary text-translating services have made pure synopses somewhat redundant. Fr. Lee, therefore, has focused his commentaries less...
(Amadeus). In this volume, Father M. Owen Lee writes for the 21st-century operagoer, briskly and stylishly telling the stories of 100 of the world's g...
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97,30 |
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Wagner's Ring: A Listener's Companion & Concordance
ISBN: 9781574670707 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the mythology, story, music, characters and language of the monumental work. It includes a synopsis of each of the four operas, a presentation of the 145 principle musical motives in order of appearance, and a discussion of the characters and their relationships.
This book explores the mythology, story, music, characters and language of the monumental work. It includes a synopsis of each of the four operas, a p...
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107,05 |
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The Redeemer Reborn: Parsifal as the Fifth Opera of Wagner's Ring
ISBN: 9781574671612 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditionally, Wagnerian scholarship has always treated the Ring and Parsifal as two separate works. The Redeemer Reborn: Parsifal as the Fifth Opera of Wagner's Ring shows how Parsifal is in fact actually the fifth opera of the Ring. Schofield explains in detail how these five musical dramas portray a single, unbroken story which begins at the start of Das Rheingold when Wotan breaks a branch from the World Ash-tree and Alberich steals the gold of the Rhine, thus separating Spear and Grail, and ends with the reunion of the Spear and Grail in the temple of Monsalvat at the end of Parsifal....
Traditionally, Wagnerian scholarship has always treated the Ring and Parsifal as two separate works. The Redeemer Reborn: Parsifal as the Fifth Opera ...
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175,25 |
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Berlioz's Semi-Operas: Roméo Et Juliette and La Damnation de Faust
ISBN: 9781580460941 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work studies two works that are among the most challenging of the entire Romantic Movement, not least because they assault the notion of genre: they take place in a sort of limbo between symphony and opera, and try to fulfill the highest goals of each simultaneously. Berlioz was a composer who strenuously resisted any impediments that stood in the way of complete compositional freedom. Most of his large-scale works nevertheless obey the strictures of some preexistent form, whether opera or symphony or mass or cantata; it is chiefly in these two experiments that Berlioz allowed himself to...
This work studies two works that are among the most challenging of the entire Romantic Movement, not least because they assault the notion of genre: t...
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413,76 |
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The Life of Haydn, in a Series of Letters Written at Vienna: Followed by the Life of Mozart, with Observations on Metastasio, and on the Present State
ISBN: 9781108061971 / Angielski / Miękka / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marie-Henri Beyle (1783 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal, is remembered today for such novels as Le Rouge et le Noir. In his lifetime, he wrote in a variety of literary genres and under a multitude of names. Louis-Alexandre-Cesar Bombet was his choice of pseudonym for these early works, originally published in French in 1814. His lives of Haydn and Mozart were substantially derived from works by Giuseppe Carpani and Theophile Winckler respectively. Despite this audacious plagiarism, Stendhal's passion for music is evident, especially for Mozart, whose Clemenza di Tito he had...
Marie-Henri Beyle (1783 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal, is remembered today for such novels as Le Rouge et le Noir. In his lifetime, he ...
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332,73 |
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Methuselah Flies: A Case Study in the Evolution of Aging
ISBN: 9789812387417 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Methuselah Flies presents a trailblazing project on the biology of aging. It describes research on the first organisms to have their lifespan increased, and their aging slowed, by hereditary manipulation. These organisms are fruit flies from the species Drosophila melanogaster, the great workhorse of genetics.
Methuselah Flies presents a trailblazing project on the biology of aging. It describes research on the first organisms to have their lifespan increase...
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778,85 |
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The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
ISBN: 9780195221862 / Angielski / Miękka / 5448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Incorporating a decade of musicological research, the Dictionary is unsurpassed in its scope and quality, with contributions from over 1,300 of the world's leading critics and scholars. A remarkable 11,000 articles, all fully cross-referenced, create a work that has become established as the essential opera reference. Indeed, every aspect of this varied art form is covered: composers, conductors, directors, performers, librettists, literary sources, cities and countries, operatic historians, and opera genres and terminology.
Incorporating a decade of musicological research, the Dictionary is unsurpassed in its scope and quality, with contributions from over 1,300 ...
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1562,72 |
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The Opera Companion
ISBN: 9781574671681 / Angielski / Miękka / 714 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Back in print in a new edition, The Opera Companion has established itself over the years as a classic reference book for opera lovers, whether devoted or casual. Synopses of 47 of the most frequently performed operas (18 composers) are given with key words to clue the listener in to the action and musical descriptions designed for those who cannot read music. A catalog of major operas lists composer, librettist, and date and place of first performance. It explains the techniques of opera in chapters on the overture, melody, aria, and recitative, with a description of the human voice as both...
Back in print in a new edition, The Opera Companion has established itself over the years as a classic reference book for opera lovers, whether devote...
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128,95 |
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Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana's Lyric Stage
ISBN: 9780252033315 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On September 29, 1927, Cuban soprano Rita Montaner walked onto the stage of Havana's Teatro Regina, her features obscured under a mask of blackened glycerin and her body clad in the tight pants, boots, and riding jacket of a coachman. Standing alongside a gilded carriage and a live horse, the blackfaced, cross-dressed actress sang the premiere of Eliseo Grenet's tango-congo, "Ay Mama Ines." The crowd went wild. Montaner's performance cemented "Ay Mama Ines" as one of the classics in the Cuban repertoire, but more importantly, the premiere heralded the birth of the Cuban zarzuela, a new... On September 29, 1927, Cuban soprano Rita Montaner walked onto the stage of Havana's Teatro Regina, her features obscured under a mask of blackened... |
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175,25 |
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Twenty-Five Works for the Dramatic Soprano Voice
ISBN: 9783836434539 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "What should I perform?" This book is to serve as a study guide of twentyfive
works for the dramatic soprano voice with orchestra. Criteria used for inclusion include range, tessitura, orchestral scoring, dramatic intensity, and cultural diversity. There are examples of works dating from 1787 through 2004, and include song cycles, monoperas, monodramas, scena and arias, symphonic rhapsodies, cantatas, symphonic cycles, and lyric tragedies. Adhering to the basic requirement of the piece being suitable for the dramatic soprano voice, the chosen works are eclectic in language, style, ethnic... "What should I perform?" This book is to serve as a study guide of twentyfive
works for the dramatic soprano voice with orchestra. Criteria used f... |
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270,51 |
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Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera
ISBN: 9780226304878 / Angielski / Miękka / 698 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett's personal experiences of triumphant--and even failed--performances and suffused with his towering and tonic passion for music. Writing as a fan, a musician, and a scholar, Gossett, the world's leading authority on the performance of Italian opera, brings colorfully to life the problems,... Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Compos... |
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98,55 |
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Empress Marie Therese and Music at the Viennese Court, 1792 1807
ISBN: 9780521047371 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Empress Marie Therese, second wife of Emperor Franz II, devoted much of her life to music. She played piano and sang, compiled a large music library and supported professional musicians and composers. This comprehensive survey of the Empress as musician and patron is based upon John Rice's discovery and analysis of extensive unpublished material from her private collection. In this work Rice introduces readers to the musical and cultural worlds of the Viennese court at the end of the eighteenth century.
Empress Marie Therese, second wife of Emperor Franz II, devoted much of her life to music. She played piano and sang, compiled a large music library a...
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284,17 |
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