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Music as Social and Cultural Practice
"The linking theme of the essays collected here is the intersection of musical work with social and cultural practice. Inspired by Professor Strohm's ideas, as is fitting in a volume in his honour, leading scholars in the field explore diverse conceptualizations of the 'work' within the contexts of a specific repertory, over four main sections. Music in Theory and Practice studies the link between treatises and musical practice, and analyses how historical writings can reveal period views on the 'work' in music before 1800. Art and Social Process: Music in Court and Urban Societies looks at the social and cultural practices informing composition from the late Renaissance until the mid-eighte...
Bizet
Today, Georges Bizet is most immediately recognized as the composer of the acclaimed opera Carmen. In the new Master Musicians edition of Bizet, author Hugh Macdonald takes an in-depth look at the composer's entire life and oeuvre. Featuring the latest in Bizet scholarship, including previously unknown pieces discovered by Macdonald while assembling the first comprehensive catalogue of the composer's work, this biography reveals the true extent of Bizet's work as an arranger and transcriber as well as his considerable influence on his contemporaries.
Georges Bizet
Since the vibrant production of Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2010, interest has grown in the work's French composer, Georges Bizet. First published in 1991, Christoph Schwandt's biography of Georges Bizet is now widely recognized as the definitive work on the great composer. Drawing on recent research and revised and augmented for the 2011 edition, translated here into English by Cynthia Klohr, Schwandt cleans away the romantic misconceptions that have cluttered earlier assessments of Bizet's life and works.
Giuseppe Verdi
This comprehensive research guide surveys the most significant published materials relating to Giuseppe Verdi. This new edition includes research since the publication of the first edition in 1998.
Notes for Violists
Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces for the instrument, making it an essential resource for professional, amateur, and student violists alike. With engaging prose supported by fact-filled analytical charts, the book offers rich biographical information and insightful analyses that help violists gain a more complete understanding of pieces like Béla Bartók's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, Rebecca Clarke's Sonata for Viola and Piano, Robert Schumann's Märchenbilder for Viola and Piano, op. 113, Carl Stamitz's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra in D Major, Igor Stravinsky's Élégie for Viola o...
Opera After the Zero Hour
'Opera After the Zero Hour' argues that newly composed opera in West Germany after World War II was a site for the renegotiation of musical traditions during an era in which tradition had become politically fraught.
Catholicism and Austrian Culture
Here are eight essays in cultural history on the intimate connection of Roman Catholic devotion -- and its opposite, anticlericalism -- with Austrian culture from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.
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Georges Bizet's Carmen
The popularity of Carmen endures across generations and continents, with one of the most frequently performed and instantly recognizable operatic scores of all time and a libretto derived from Prosper M rim e's novella of the same name, written 30 years prior to the opera's 1875 debut. In Georges Bizet's Carmen--the latest volume in the Oxford Keynotes series--author Nelly Furman explores the evolution of Carmen's story and its meaning, illuminating how the titular heroine has maintained her status as a universally recognizable cultural icon. Grounded in Ludovic Hal vy's and Henri Meilhac's libretto--and drawing on a wealth of mostly French critical theory--this book traces the textual, oper...
Oper. Geschichte einer Institution
Die Oper gehört seit vierhundert Jahren zu den stabilsten Kulturinstitutionen Europas. Weder Revolutionen noch Wirtschaftskrisen haben daran etwas geändert. Im 19. Jahrhundert wird die Oper schließlich zu einem internationalen Phänomen. Zur Institution Oper gehören nicht nur die Bühnenvorstellung und alles, was zu ihrer Organisation notwendig ist, sondern auch die Sänger und nicht zuletzt das Publikum. So kommen in diesem Buch das italienische Impresario-System, die fahrenden Schauspieltruppen, die Stadttheater, die Hof- und Staatstheater ebenso in den Blick wie etwa die Reisebedingungen und die Gagen der Sänger, die Eintrittspreise und die Logenhierarchie in der Oper sowie die rechtlichen Aspekte des Opernbetriebs. Der Bogen spannt sich vom 17. Jahrhundert bis hin zu den Entwicklungen der Gegenwart.
