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  • Situating Opera

    Period, Genre, Reception

    de Herbert Lindenberger ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Opera
    Setting opera within a variety of contexts - social, aesthetic, historical - Lindenberger illuminates a form that has persisted in recognizable shape for over four centuries. The study examines the social entanglements of opera, for example the relation of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio and Verdi's Il trovatore to its initial and later audiences. It shows how modernist opera rethought the ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

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  • The Sound of Pictures

    Listening to the Movies, from Hitchcock to High Fidelity

    de Andrew Ford ...
    The Sound of Pictures is an illuminating journey through the soundtracks of more than 400 films. How do filmmakers play with sound? And how does that affect the way we watch their movies? Whether pop or classical, sweeping or sparse, music plays a crucial role in our cinematic experience. Other sounds can be even more evocative: the sounds of nature, of cities and of voices.In The Sound of ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen

    de Bob Gendron ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    "In the absence of love, there is loneliness, sorrow and desperation. And that's where I come in." --Greg Dulli, introducing "When We Two Parted" onstage in San FranciscoLike no record before or since, Gentlemen is fraught with the psychological warfare, bedroom drama, Catholic guilt, reprehensible deception and uncleansable shame that coincide with relationships gone seriously wrong. This story ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Understanding the Leitmotif

    From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music

    de Matthew Bribitzer-Stull ...
    The musical leitmotif, having reached a point of particular forcefulness in the music of Richard Wagner, has remained a popular compositional device up to the present day. In this book, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the background and development of the leitmotif, from Wagner to the Hollywood adaptations of The Lord of The Rings and the Harry Potter series. Analyzing both concert music and film ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Death-Devoted Heart

    Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde

    de Roger Scruton ...
    A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's arms. While critics have lauded Wagner's Tristan and Isolde for the originality and subtlety of the music, they have denounced the drama as a "mere trifle"--a rendering of Wagner's forbidden love for ... Leer más

    $39.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Rossini

    Edición de Emanuele Senici ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    This 2004 Companion is a collection of specially commissioned essays on one of the most influential opera composers in the repertoire. The volume is divided into four parts, each exploring an important element of Rossini's life, his world, and his works: biography and reception; words and music; representative operas; and performance. Within these sections accessible chapters, written by a team of ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok

    de Elliot Antokoletz ...
    Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartók explores the means by which two early 20th century operas - Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande (1902) and Bartók'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 ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Patti Smith's Horses

    de Dr. Philip Shaw ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Described as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was "rock and Rimbaud"), Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology. While Horses pays homage to the record's origins in the nascent New York punk scene, the book's core lies in a detailed analysis of Patti Smith's lyrics and includes ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • France and Ireland

    Notes and Narratives

    Edición de Una Hunt, Mary Pierse ...
    Series Libro 66 - Reimagining Ireland
    The rich association between Ireland and France is embodied in music, art and creative writing from both countries and this collection provides a tantalising selection of these interweaving influences. The book presents a vivid picture of interactions between composers, performers, poets and novelists on each side of the Celtic Sea. Surprises abound, with music unexpectedly linking Ireland and ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

    de Ellen T. Harris ...
    Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of seventeenth-century England, and yet, despite its global renown, it remains cloaked in mystery. The date and place of its first performance cannot be fixed with precision, and the absolute accuracy of the surviving scores, which date from almost 100 years after the work was written, cannot be assumed. In this thirtieth ... Leer más

    $55.79 USD

  • Writing through Music

    Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics

    de Jann Pasler ...
    Drawing on a passion for music, a remarkably diverse interdisciplinary toolbox, and a gift for accessible language that speaks equally to scholars and the general public, Jann Pasler invites us to read as she writes "through" music, unveiling the forces that affect our sonic encounters. In an extraordinary collection of historical and critical essays, some appearing for the first time in English, ... Leer más

    $37.79 USD

  • Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart

    de Ralph P. Locke ...
    During the years 1500–1800, European performing arts reveled in a kaleidoscope of Otherness: Middle-Eastern harem women, fortune-telling Spanish 'Gypsies', Incan priests, Barbary pirates, moresca dancers, and more. In this prequel to his 2009 book Musical Exoticism, Ralph P. Locke explores how exotic locales and their inhabitants were characterized in musical genres ranging from instrumental ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD