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  • Middle Ages without borders: a conversation on medievalism

    Medioevo senza frontiere : una conversazione sul medievalismo / Moyen Âge sans frontières : conversation sur le médiévalisme

    Edited by Tommaso Di Carpegna Falconieri, Pierre Savy, Lila Yawn ...
    Series series Collection de l'École française de Rome
    This book presents the proceedings of the international conference “The Middle Ages in the Modern World,” held in Rome November 21-24, 2018. Attended by more than a hundred participants of different ages, educational backgrounds, and places of origin, the conference constituted a landmark in the study of medievalism: the historical discipline, now in full bloom, that investigates the ways in which ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Viola da Gamba

    by Bettina Hoffmann ...
    Translated by Paul Ferguson ...
    The viola da gamba was a central instrument in European music from the late 15th century well into the late 18th. In this comprehensive study, Bettina Hoffmann offers both an introduction to the instrument -- its construction, technique and history -- for the non-specialist, interweaving this information with a wealth of original archival scholarship that experts will relish. The book begins with ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Modern Castrato

    Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age

    by Patricia Howard ...
    The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age chronicles the career of the most significant castrato of the second half of the eighteenth-century. Through a coincidence of time and place, Gaetano Guadagni was on the forefront of the heroic opera reform, and many forward-thinking composers of the age created roles for him. Author Patricia Howard reveals that Guadagni ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Decadent Genealogies

    The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio

    by Barbara Spackman ...
    Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic otherness. By means of an ideological and rhetorical analysis of scientific as well as literary texts, she shows how the rhetoric of sickness provided the male decadent writer with an alibi for the occupation and appropriation of the female body. ... Read more

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  • Mime, Music and Drama on the Eighteenth-Century Stage

    The Ballet d'Action

    by Edward Nye ...
    The 'ballet d'action' was one of the most successful and controversial forms of theatre in the early modern period. A curious hybrid of dance, mime and music, its overall and overriding intention was to create drama. It was danced drama rather than dramatic dance, musical drama rather than dramatic music. Most modern critical studies of the ballet d'action treat it more narrowly as stage dance and ... Read more

    $104.19 USD

  • The Sounds of Paris in Verdi's La traviata

    by Emilio Sala ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Opera
    How did Paris and its musical landscape influence Verdi's La traviata? In this book, Emilio Sala re-examines La traviata in the cultural context of the French capital in the mid-nineteenth century. Verdi arrived in Paris in 1847 and stayed for almost two years: there, he began his relationship with Giuseppina Strepponi and assiduously attended performances at the popular theatres, whose plays made ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture

    Edited by Daniel Harkett, Katie Hornstein ...
    This collection reconsiders the life and work of Emile Jean-Horace Vernet (1789–1863), presenting him as a crucial figure for understanding the visual culture of modernity. The book includes work by senior and emerging scholars, showing that Vernet was a multifaceted artist who moved with ease across the thresholds of genre and media to cultivate an image of himself as the embodiment of modern ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Power of Images

    Siena, 1338

    by Patrick Boucheron ...
    Where can the danger be lurking? Two soldiers are huddled together, one gazing up at the sky, the other darting a sideward glance. They derive a tacit reassurance from their weapons, but they are both in their different ways alone and scared. They were painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, and they seem symptomatic of a state of emergency: the year was 1338, and the ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Chiasmi International 16

    MERLEAU-PONTY ENTRE HIER ET DEMAIN / BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW / TRA IERI E DOMANI

    by Aa. Vv. ...
    Merleau-PontyENTRE HIER ET DEMAINBETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROWTRA IERI E DOMANI****dossiers – special sections – dossiersMerleau -Ponty demainMerleau -Ponty TomorrowMerleau -Ponty domaniMerleau -Ponty et la philosophie classique allemandeMerleau -Ponty and Classical German PhilosophyMerleau -Ponty e la filosofia classica tedesca****varia – diverse – varia****COMPTES RENDUS – REVIEWS – ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Opera and Sovereignty

    Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy

    by Martha Feldman ...
    Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period's social and political ... Read more

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  • Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust

    by Cormac Newark ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Opera
    The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres. In the first book-length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark examines representations of operatic performance from Balzac's La Comédie humaine to Proust's À la ... Read more

    $109.89 USD

  • Life and Arias of María Callas

    by Lázaro Droznes ...
    Life and arias from María CallasMaría Callas was probably the greatest soprano of “bel canto”. Her life, filled with many ups and downs, can only be compared to the lives of the tragic heroines she used to represent in her scenes.Her trajectory largely exceeded the theatre lyric limits when she became a diva that attracted the interest of the masses, and an international “jet set” star.The play, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD