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  • The Taming of the Turk

    Ottomans on the Danish Stage 1596-1896

    by Bent Holm ...
    Translated by Gaye Kynoch ...
    Series Book 2 - Ottomania
    For centuries the figure of 'the Turk' spread fascination and fear - in the theatre of war and on the theatrical stage. On the one hand, 'the Turk' represented a spectacular dimension, an imaginary world of pirates, sultans and odalisques; on the other hand, he stood for the actual Ottoman Empire, engaged in long-lasting confrontations and exchanges with Occidental powers. When confronted with ... Read more

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  • Ludvig Holberg, a Danish Playwright on the European Stage

    Masquerade, Comedy, Satire

    by Bent Holm ...
    Series Book 6 - Specula Spectacula
    Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) is the founding father of the art of theatre in the Nordic countries. He was a satirist - and university professor - who took his main inspirations from the comedies of Moliere and from the commedia dell'arte to create a number of plays that mirrored contemporary costums and conducts in a both realistic and grotesque way. Due to the psychological and philosophical ... Read more

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  • A History of Performing Pitch

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    This is the first complete survey of the historical pitch standards used by musicians during the last four centuries. Written from a practical perspective and addressed to performers it is the first book to attach frequency values to pitch names and describe where, when, and why various historical pitch levels were used. It surveys a period from the 16th century to the present and focuses on Italy ... Read more

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    Everything you need to know about musical theater in one handy guide by leading expert Maureen Hughes who has herself created 8 musicals and teaches musical theater. The Pocket Guide to Musicals covers everything from the composers and lyricists to a comprehensive A-Z listing of musicals from around the world. Accessibility is a key selling point with fact boxes highlighting key or curious facts ... Read more

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  • Hallelujah – The story of a musical genius and the city that brought his masterpiece to life

    George Frideric Handel's Messiah in Dublin

    18 November, 1741. George Frideric Handel, one of the world's greatest composers, arrives in Dublin – the second city of the Empire – to prepare his masterpiece, Messiah, for its maiden performance the following spring …In Hallelujah, Jonathan Bardon, one of Ireland's leading historians, explores the remarkable circumstances surrounding the first performance of Handel's now iconic oratorio in ... Read more

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  • Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings

    Volumes 3 and 4

    Volumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories behind approximately 1,700 more of the greatest song recordings in the history of the music industry, from 1890 to today. In this masterful survey, all genres of popular music are covered, from pop, rock, soul, and country to jazz, blues, classic vocals, hip-hop, folk, gospel, and ethnic/world music. ... Read more

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    by Tim Carter ...
    Series series Oxford Keynotes
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    by Walter Frisch ...
    Series series Oxford Keynotes
    "Over the Rainbow" exploded into worldwide fame upon its performance by Judy Garland in the MGM film musical The Wizard of Oz (1939). Voted the greatest song of the twentieth century in a 2000 survey, it is a masterful, delicate balance of sophistication and child-like simplicity in which composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E. Y. "Yip" Harburg poignantly captured the hope and anxiety harbored by ... Read more

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    Music as Performance

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  • Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. III

    Images of the Harem in Literature and Theatre.

    Series Book 5 - Ottomania
    On 3 May 1810 George Gordon, Lord Byron, swam like the mythic Leander from Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont to Abydos on the Asian shore. The hero of his poem "Don Juan" has lived in "feminine disguise" in the sultan's harem for more than a century. To commemorate Byron's Don Juan, the third volume of the "Ottoman Empire and European Theatre" series focuses on the image of the harem ... Read more

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  • Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. II

    The Time of Joseph Haydn: From Sultan Mahmud I to Mahmud II (r.1730-1839)

    Series Book 3 - Ottomania
    The Time of Joseph Haydn: From Sultan Mahmud I to Sultan Mahmud II (r.1730-1839), the second volume of Ottoman Empire and European Theatre, explores the relationship between Western playwrights, composers and visual artists of the eighteenth-century and Turkish-Ottoman culture, as well as the interest of Ottoman artists in European culture. Twenty-seven contributions by renowned experts shed light ... Read more

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