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The Extraordinary Operatic Adventures of Blanche Arral
ISBN: 9781574670776 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This memoir presents the reminiscences of Blanche Arral, the Belgian singer whose love for adventure led her to travel the world concertizing rather than singing in the major opera houses a choice that caused her to be soon forgotten. In her stories, recorded by translator Ira Glackens, she reveals
This memoir presents the reminiscences of Blanche Arral, the Belgian singer whose love for adventure led her to travel the world concertizing rather t...
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243,64 zł |
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Start-Up at the New Met: The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts 1966-1976
ISBN: 9781574671476 / Angielski / Miękka / 658 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following his previous two volumes, which recounted the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts from 1931-1966, Jackson (music, Drake U.) describes about 140 performances from 1966 to 1976, a time when the opera house moved to Lincoln Center. He begins with a discussion of Barber's Antony and Cleopatra in 1966, and follows with descriptions (in chronological
Following his previous two volumes, which recounted the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts from 1931-1966, Jackson (music, Drake U.) describes about 140 pe...
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359,28 zł |
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American Aria: Encore
ISBN: 9781574671605 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What's it like to grow up on a small farm in Illinois only to find yourself, some 20 years later, performing on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House? And then to travel the world, singing in historic theaters from La Scala in Milan to Vienna, Paris, London, and beyond? Former Met star Sherrill Milnes tells all in this completely updated, first-time-in-paperback edition of his very successful biography.
What's it like to grow up on a small farm in Illinois only to find yourself, some 20 years later, performing on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera Ho...
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188,87 zł |
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Analyzing Wagner's Operas: Alfred Lorenz and German Nationalist Ideology
ISBN: 9781580460231 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The work of the Wagnerian theorist and analyst Alfred Lorenz (1869-1939) has had a profound influence upon both Wagnerian scholarship and music analysis in the twentieth century, and yet it has never been properly evaluated. Analyzing Wagner's Operas outlines the origins and development of the expressive aesthetic in writings by Wagner and others, as well as in early-twentieth-century theories of musical form, and it considers Lorenz's work and contributions in this light. The book also hopes to show, to the extent possible, where Lorenz's work acted as a sort of -musical metaphor- for German...
The work of the Wagnerian theorist and analyst Alfred Lorenz (1869-1939) has had a profound influence upon both Wagnerian scholarship and music analys...
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594,22 zł |
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European Music and Musicians in New York City, 1840-1900
ISBN: 9781580462037 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The musical scene in mid-nineteenth century New York City, contrary to common belief, was exceptionally vibrant. Thanks to several opera companies, no fewer than two orchestras, public chamber music and solo concerts, and numerous choirs, New Yorkers were regularly exposed to -new- music of Verdi, Meyerbeer, Schumann, Berlioz, Liszt, and Wagner. In European Music and Musicians in New York City, 1840-1900, the first thorough exploration of musical life in New York City during this period, editor John Graziano and a number of other distinguished essayists assert that the richness of the...
The musical scene in mid-nineteenth century New York City, contrary to common belief, was exceptionally vibrant. Thanks to several opera companies, no...
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490,88 zł |
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The Operas of Benjamin Britten: Expression and Evasion
ISBN: 9781843833147 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Claire Seymour examines ways in which Britten's operas explored and articulated the inherent ambiguity and latent sexuality of music, particularly song, and suggests that they may illustrate his search for a public "voice" which would embody, communicate, and perhaps resolve his private beliefs and anxieties. She demonstrates how the delicate balance between private and public communication, and the tension between art as self-expression and art as moral resolution were key concerns in Britten's music. Analyses of Britten's operas from Paul Bunyan to Death in Venice, the three Church...
Claire Seymour examines ways in which Britten's operas explored and articulated the inherent ambiguity and latent sexuality of music, particularly son...
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134,30 zł |
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Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok
ISBN: 9780195365825 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok explores the means by which two early 20th century operas - Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande (1902) and Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1911) - transformed the harmonic structures of the traditional major/minor scale system into a new musical language. It also looks at how this language reflects the psychodramatic symbolism of the Franco-Belgian poet, Maurice Maeterlinck, and his Hungarian disciple, Bela Balazs. These two operas represent the first significant attempts to establish more profound correspondences...
Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok explores the means by which two early 20th century operas - Debussy's Pelleas et Me...
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216,74 zł |
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Western Music and Race
ISBN: 9780521838870 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This contributory volume, the first book of its kind, provides a snapshot of the ways in which discourse about Western music and race overlapped and became intertwined during the period from Wagner's death to the rise of National Socialism and fascism elsewhere in Europe. At these two framing moments such overlapping was at its most explicit: Wagner's racially inflected 'regeneration theories' were at one end and institutionalised cultural racism at the other. The book seeks to provide insights into the key national contexts in which such discourses circulated in the interim period, as well...
This contributory volume, the first book of its kind, provides a snapshot of the ways in which discourse about Western music and race overlapped and b...
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446,86 zł |
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The Verdi Baritone: Studies in the Development of Dramatic Character
ISBN: 9780253220394 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most significant developments in 19th-century Italian opera was the genesis of the Verdi baritone. The authors argue that the composer's baritone characters embody "a quintessential humanity, expressing needs and temptations, confusions and understandings, griefs and joys that transcend the particulars of time and place." The Verdi Baritone explores seven of the most fascinating roles in the repertory, revealing how they were conceived and executed. This eloquent book opens with a discussion of Verdi's early triumph, Nabucco; proceeds with Ernani, Macbeth, Rigoletto, La... One of the most significant developments in 19th-century Italian opera was the genesis of the Verdi baritone. The authors argue that the composer's... |
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87,79 zł |
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Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity
ISBN: 9780520257979 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this erudite and elegantly composed argument, Karol Berger uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support two groundbreaking claims: first, that it was only in the later eighteenth century that music began to take the flow of time from the past to the future seriously; second, that this change in the structure of musical time was an aspect of a larger transformation in the way educated Europeans began to imagine and think about time with the onset of modernity, a part of a shift from the premodern Christian outlook to the modern post-Christian worldview. Until this...
In this erudite and elegantly composed argument, Karol Berger uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support two groundbreaking ...
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163,17 zł |
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Tragic Manhood and Democracy: Verdi's Voice and the Powers of Musical Art
ISBN: 9781845190422 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work argues that tragedy is at once art and science an absorbing art and precisely observed empirical inquiry into human psychology, whose subject matter is the dilemma of manhood under democracy. The author expands discussion of the idea of the tragic to include music drama in general and the operas of Verdi in particular, and explores the indispensable contribution of tragedy to an understanding of personal and political psychology through discussion of: the political theory of structural injustice resting on the suppression of voice, a developmental psychology of gender, and an...
This work argues that tragedy is at once art and science an absorbing art and precisely observed empirical inquiry into human psychology, whose subjec...
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119,39 zł |
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Tragic Manhood and Democracy: Verdi's Voice and the Powers of Musical Art
ISBN: 9781845190415 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work argues that tragedy is at once art and science an absorbing art and precisely observed empirical inquiry into human psychology, whose subject matter is the dilemma of manhood under democracy. The author expands discussion of the idea of the tragic to include music drama in general and the operas of Verdi in particular, and explores the indispensable contribution of tragedy to an understanding of personal and political psychology through discussion of: the political theory of structural injustice resting on the suppression of voice, a developmental psychology of gender, and an...
This work argues that tragedy is at once art and science an absorbing art and precisely observed empirical inquiry into human psychology, whose subjec...
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543,90 zł |
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Gioachino Rossini: A Research and Information Guide
ISBN: 9780415994576 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Giochino Rossini: A Research and Information Guide is designed as a tool for those beginning to study the life and works of Gioachino Rossini as well as for those who wish to explore beyond the established biographies and commentaries. The first edition was published in 2001, and represented a survey of some 878 publications relating to the composer's life and works. The second edition is revised and updated to include the more than 150 books and articles written in the field of Rossini studies since then. Contents range from sources published in the early decades of the... Giochino Rossini: A Research and Information Guide is designed as a tool for those beginning to study the life and works of Gioachino Ross... |
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749,23 zł |
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Cross Index Title Guide to Classical Music
ISBN: 9780313255311 / Angielski / Twarda / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No index can claim to be complete, but this one covers the major works of 220 composers from the Middle Ages to the present, listing each composition under its variant names, and giving the composer's last name. Some 6,000 entries are included in this compact volume. A list of the principal sources consulted will help users locate printed editions, recordings of a work, and bibliographical and biographical information about the composers. "Music Educators Journal" This comprehensive reference guide will serve as a much-needed companion volume to music dictionaries, to the literature of... No index can claim to be complete, but this one covers the major works of 220 composers from the Middle Ages to the present, listing each compositi... |
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271,95 zł |
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Cross Index Title Guide to Opera and Operetta
ISBN: 9780313256226 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The companion volume to the "Cross Index Title Guide to Classical Music" (Greenwood Press, 1987) contains more than 5,500 vocal and instrumental excerpts from over 1,400 operas and operettas by 535 composers from Monteverdi to the present. Each selection is listed by its popular title or subtitle and by its variant names in alphabetical order, and the name of the composer, the title of the larger work from which the piece derives, and the first line or first words are also given. Titles of excerpts from the standard opera repertoire are given in both English and the vernacular, and those... The companion volume to the "Cross Index Title Guide to Classical Music" (Greenwood Press, 1987) contains more than 5,500 vocal and instrumental ex... |
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271,95 zł |
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Peter Sculthorpe: A Bio-Bibliography
ISBN: 9780313277429 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sculthorpe is one of Australia's most prominent composers and is among the most important composers on the international scene. Although he is a distinguished academic and popular lecturer, Sculthorpe does not fit any ready-made category of composer or teacher. In a body of work that so far includes orchestral and chamber music in many genres and mediums, opera and other theater music, songs and choral music, and music for documentary and commercial films, radio, and television, he has established a personal musical style and public presence that have shaped the history of 20th-century... Sculthorpe is one of Australia's most prominent composers and is among the most important composers on the international scene. Although he is a di... |
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326,34 zł |
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Music Speaks: On the Language of Opera, Dance, and Song
ISBN: 9781580463249 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Daniel Albright, author of Musicking Shakespeare and Berlioz's Semi-Operas, comes a collection of essays on music and on dance, probing the problems of articulating the meaning(s) of music; the larger question of how music and language interact; how text-setting highlights certain areas of meter, theme, or ironic undertone, and leaves others in darkness; how a musical composition can behave as a critique of a previous composition; and how one might rehabilitate certain underappreciated or much-scorned figures, such as Meyerbeer, by showing that the very terms of invective used against...
From Daniel Albright, author of Musicking Shakespeare and Berlioz's Semi-Operas, comes a collection of essays on music and on dance, probing the probl...
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413,36 zł |
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Vocal Victories: Wagner's Female Characters from Senta to Kundry
ISBN: 9788763507714 / Angielski / Twarda / 431 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vocal Victories is the first musicological comparison of all of Richard Wagner's great female characters, from Senta in The Flying Dutchman to Kundry in Parsifal. It has long been customary to view these and other opera heroines as victims, because these women, as a rule, perish during the plot of the opera. A closer study of the music of the women - their singing and the orchestral voices that surround them - reveals, however, that it is in the female characters that the new and groundbreaking musical material comes into being, and that the women are far more in command of the development of...
Vocal Victories is the first musicological comparison of all of Richard Wagner's great female characters, from Senta in The Flying Dutchman to Kundry ...
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304,53 zł |
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Socrate: Vocal score
ISBN: 9781932419733 / Francuski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Erik Satie's "drame symphonique" was composed on a commission from the Princess Edmond de Polignac. Satie based his text on selections from the Plato works Symposium, Phaedrus, and Phaedo which mention the Greek philospher in the French translation by Victor Cousin. The work was first performed at the salon of Pricess de Polignac in April of 1918 with soprano Jane Bathori singing all four roles and the composer at the piano. This new vocal score, produced in an easy-to-read format, is a digitally enhanced reprint of the one first issued in 1919 by Editions de la Sirene in Paris. Also included...
Erik Satie's "drame symphonique" was composed on a commission from the Princess Edmond de Polignac. Satie based his text on selections from the Plato ...
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72,79 zł |
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Music at the Limits
ISBN: 9780231139373 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Music at the Limits is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays and articles on music. Addressing the work of a variety of composers, musicians, and performers, Said carefully draws out music's social, political, and cultural contexts and, as a classically trained pianist, provides rich and often surprising assessments of classical music and opera. Music at the Limits offers both a fresh perspective on canonical pieces and a celebration of neglected works by contemporary composers. Said faults the Metropolitan Opera in New York for being too...
Music at the Limits is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays and articles on music. Addressing the work of ...
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213,21 zł |
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