Kategoria BISAC: Music >> Genres & Styles - Opera

Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) was arguably the most important Russian composer since Shostakovich, and his music has generated a great deal of academic interest in the years since his death. Schnittke Studies provides a variety of perspectives on the composer and his music. The field is currently diverse and vibrant, and this book demonstrates the range of academic approaches being applied to Schnittke s work and the insights they provide, covering: polystylism, for which Schnittke is best known, the significance of the composer s Christian faith, and detailed formal analyses of key...

A native of Queens, N.Y., Maestro Weibel was never in doubt about the avenue his future career would take. His talent and love for musical expression began at an early age. He attended both the Juilliard School and Mannes College of Music in Manhattan where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in conducting and piano. Upon graduation he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship from the U.S. government for further study of opera and conducting in Italy. While there he acquired a wealth of valuable experience and knowledge as well as a beautiful young Italian model, Pasquina Scarpa, as his...

Written in the last years of his life, Days of Twilight,...

First heard with the disaterous premiere of the opera on February 20, 1816 in Rome at the Teatro Argentina, Rossini's overture, which was employed twice before as opener for the operas Aureliano in Palmira (1813) and Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra (1815), grew in popularity as rapidly as the opera itself - a staple of the repertoire almost since the beginning despute the premiere. As with the other overtures, this one has not been treated very well by publishers over the decades. Part of the problem stems from the composer's own manuscripts which were the product of...

Wie der Erstdruck vermerkt, vertonte Robert Schumann im Jahr 1849 die Ballade -Schon Hedwig- op. 106 -fur Declamation mit Begleitung des Pianoforte-. Unter derselben Besetzungsangabe wurden drei Jahre spater die -Ballade von Haideknaben- und -Die Fluchtlinge- op. 122 publiziert. Die Autorin untersucht die zeitgenossischen positiven Auerungen zu Schumanns Werken, die in einem Umfeld der grundsatzlichen Ablehnung des Melodrams markant hervortreten. Sie zeigt, wie vor allem die Konzertmelodramen tiefgreifende Einblicke in seine Musik- und Gattungsasthetik ermoglichen: Mit dem Melodramatischen...

This book addresses the ways in which masculinity is negotiated, constructed, represented, and problematized within operatic music and practice. Although the consideration of masculine ontology and epistemology has pervaded cultural and sociological studies since the late 1980s, and masculinity has been the focus of recent if sporadic musicological discussion, the relationship between masculinity and opera has so far escaped detailed critical scrutiny. Operating from a position of sympathy with feminist and queer approaches and the phallocentric tendencies they identify, this study offers...