Ariadne Auf Naxos in Full Score
ISBN: 9780486275604 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the composer's most highly regarded operas, with a libretto by Hugo von Hoffmansthal that artfully intermingles backstage comedy, the lofty emotions of Greek mythology and the merry pranks of a troupe of commedia dell arte players. Strauss endowed these antic proceedings with a luminous score that combines music of great satiric wit with breathtaking flights of lyricism. Reprinted from the definitive full-score edition published by Adolph Furstner following the opera's 1916 premiere at the Vienna State Opera."
One of the composer's most highly regarded operas, with a libretto by Hugo von Hoffmansthal that artfully intermingles backstage comedy, the lofty emo...
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129,24 zł |
Listening in Paris: A Cultural Historyvolume 21
ISBN: 9780520206489 / Angielski / Miękka / 363 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning with the simple question, "Why did audiences grow silent?" Listening in Paris gives a spectator's-eye view of opera and concert life from the Old Regime to the Romantic era, describing the transformation in musical experience from social event to profound aesthetic encounter. James H. Johnson recreates the experience of audiences during these rich decades with brio and wit. Woven into the narrative is an analysis of the political, musical, and aesthetic factors that produced more engaged listening. Johnson shows the gradual pacification of audiences from loud and unruly...
Beginning with the simple question, "Why did audiences grow silent?" Listening in Paris gives a spectator's-eye view of opera and concert life ...
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217,46 zł |
Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna
ISBN: 9780521027113 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development of opera buffa in the second half of the eighteenth century. Among the topics explored are the relationship of Viennese opera buffa to French theater; Mozart and eighteenth century comedy; gender, nature and bourgeois society on Mozart's buffa stage; as well as close examinations of key works such as Don Giovanni and Figaro.
This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development of opera buffa in ...
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158,58 zł |
W.A. Mozart, Don Giovanni
ISBN: 9780521296632 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a study of Mozart's Don Giovanni, his second opera to a libretto by da Ponte. Although it is one of the handful of best-known and most often performed operas of the last two hundred years, Don Giovanni is seldom given in an authentic form and arguments persist as to its nature. Julian Rushton takes the view that, notwithstanding the tragic nature of certain scenes, it must be regarded as an opera buffa. He gives a brief summary of its history and life in the theatre, but the chief historical essay (by Edward Forman) concerns the subject-matter before it reached da Ponte. The book...
This book is a study of Mozart's Don Giovanni, his second opera to a libretto by da Ponte. Although it is one of the handful of best-known and most of...
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112,53 zł |
Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
ISBN: 9780521387156 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pierrot lunaire (1912) is one of the most important music theatre works ever written. This is the first guide in English to a work which continues to be performed, broadcast and recorded worldwide.
The book describes the cultural environment around the turn of the century from which Pierrot emerged and discusses Schoenberg's working methods and intentions in its composition. The composer's artistic development up to 1912 is contemplated as a backdrop to this extraordinarily original creative act, and the significance of Pierrot in the unfolding of twentieth-century music is a recurrent... Pierrot lunaire (1912) is one of the most important music theatre works ever written. This is the first guide in English to a work which continues to ...
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112,53 zł |
Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
ISBN: 9780521407786 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex is widely acknowledged as one of the most original musical theater works of the twentieth century. This clear and concise guide, the first ever written on the work, describes the plot, the music and the staging in close detail and provides a fully documented discussion of the origins of Oedipus Rex in Stravinsky's own work and thinking. By placing the work in its social context, the author paints a vivid picture of Parisian artistic politics in the twenties, from which emerged one of the richest and most suggestive works of modern times. The full libretto is provided,...
Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex is widely acknowledged as one of the most original musical theater works of the twentieth century. This clear and concise gui...
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127,88 zł |
Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna
ISBN: 9780521572392 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development of opera buffa in the second half of the eighteenth century. Among the topics explored are the relationship of Viennese opera buffa to French theater; Mozart and eighteenth century comedy; gender, nature and bourgeois society on Mozart's buffa stage; as well as close examinations of key works such as Don Giovanni and Figaro.
This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development of opera buffa in ...
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711,29 zł |
Leontyne Price: Highlights of a Prima Donna
ISBN: 9780595416998 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Leontyne Price: Highlights of a Prima Donna" is a collector's item. It was published in 1973 and covers some of the most essential years of her life and career. It has circulated extensively via libraries and has been cited in a variety of magazine articles, books and encyclopedias such as: "The Music of Black Americans: A History by Eileen Southern," 2nd Ed., 1985, W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.; "Biographical Dictionary of Musicians," 1992; "Current Biography," 1992; and "Opera In America" by John Dizikes, Yale University Press, 1993. "The life-story of Leontyne Price is told by Hugh Lee...
"Leontyne Price: Highlights of a Prima Donna" is a collector's item. It was published in 1973 and covers some of the most essential years of her life ...
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81,77 zł |
Leontyne Price: Highlights of a Prima Donna
ISBN: 9780595874446 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Leontyne Price: Highlights of a Prima Donna" is a collector's item. It was published in 1973 and covers some of the most essential years of her life and career. It has circulated extensively via libraries and has been cited in a variety of magazine articles, books and encyclopedias such as: "The Music of Black Americans: A History by Eileen Southern," 2nd Ed., 1985, W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.; "Biographical Dictionary of Musicians," 1992; "Current Biography," 1992; and "Opera In America" by John Dizikes, Yale University Press, 1993. "The life-story of Leontyne Price is told by Hugh Lee...
"Leontyne Price: Highlights of a Prima Donna" is a collector's item. It was published in 1973 and covers some of the most essential years of her life ...
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124,93 zł |
Wagner
ISBN: 9780691027227 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wagner is one of the most controversial of composers, and much that has been written about him--including his autobiography--is misleading. Barry Millington draws on the best previous scholarship and his own original research to set the record straight. The first part of this book is devoted to biography; the second, to a detailed study of the operas. Millington offers a historical review of the critical interpretation of each opera, including a discussion of recent methods of formal analysis. In this revised edition, two chapters, those on Tannhauser and Die Meistersinger, include... Wagner is one of the most controversial of composers, and much that has been written about him--including his autobiography--is misleading. Barry M... |
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212,36 zł |
Wagner
ISBN: 9780691102900 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While no one would dispute Wagner's ranking among the most significant composers in the history of Western music, his works have been more fiercely attacked than those of any other composer. Alleged to be an unscrupulous womanizer and megalomaniac, undeniably a racist, Wagner's personal qualities and attitudes have often provoked, and continue to provoke, intense hostility that has translated into a mistrust and abhorrence of his music. In this emphatic, lucid book, Michael Tanner discusses why people feel so passionately about Wagner, for or against, in a way that they do not... While no one would dispute Wagner's ranking among the most significant composers in the history of Western music, his works have been more fiercely... |
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183,67 zł |
Operas of Puccini
ISBN: 9780801493096 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The performance history of each of Puccini's operas are reviewed and related to events in his life.
The performance history of each of Puccini's operas are reviewed and related to events in his life.
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229,54 zł |
Composers of Operetta
ISBN: 9780837176123 / Angielski / Twarda / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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580,26 zł |
In My Own Voice: Memoirs
ISBN: 9780879102814 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the spring of 1999, British music critics voted Christa Ludwig number 10 on their list of the 100 most important vocal artists of the 20th century. Born in Berlin in 1928, Christa sang without a mistake the Queen of the Night's aria from The Magic Flute. But as a child under the Third Reich, particularly during the final war years, for Christa music was largely silenced, replaced by deprivation, bombings, and fear. The war over, Christa's mezzo-soprano brought her almost immediate recognition, and in 1946 she made her professional debut with the Frankfurt Opera singing Orlvosky in...
In the spring of 1999, British music critics voted Christa Ludwig number 10 on their list of the 100 most important vocal artists of the 20th century....
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129,47 zł |
Operatic China Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity Across the Pacific Staging Chinese Identity Across the Pacific
ISBN: 9781403973276 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this study Lei focuses on the notion of 'performing Chinese' in traditional opera in the 'contact zones', where two or more cultures, ethnicities, and/or ideologies meet and clash. This work seeks to create discourse among theatre and performance studies, Asian and Asian American studies, and transnational and diasporic studies.
In this study Lei focuses on the notion of 'performing Chinese' in traditional opera in the 'contact zones', where two or more cultures, ethnicities, ...
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390,87 zł |
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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241,93 zł |
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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356,72 zł |
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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175,47 zł |
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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588,47 zł |
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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562,89 zł |