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The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera
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Popular Opera in Eighteenth-Century France
This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. Musical comedy in this form came in different styles and formed a distinct genre of opera, whose history has been obscured by neglect. Its songs were performed in private homes, where operas themselves were also given. The subject-matter was far wider in scope than is normally thought, with news stories and political themes finding their way onto the popular stage. In this book, David Charlton describes the comedic and musical nature of eighteenth-century popular French opera, considering topics such as Gherardi's theatre, Fair Theatre and the 'musico-dramatic art' created in the mid-eighteenth century. Performance practices, singers, audience experiences and theatre staging are included, as well as a pioneering account of the formation of a core of 'canonical' popular works.
Grétry and the Growth of Opéra-comique
First published in 1986, this major study in English explores Grétry and opéra-comique between 1768 and 1791.
E. T. A. Hoffmann's Musical Writings
This book offers a long-awaited opportunity to assess the thought and influence of one of the most famous of all writers on music and the musical links with his fiction. Containing the first complete appearance in English of Kreisleriana, it reveals a masterpiece of imaginative writing and whose profound humour and irony can now be fully appreciated.
Opera in the Age of Rousseau
A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.
The Music of Simon Holt
Duende y Duelos : the Andalusian spirit in the Lorca settings / Anthony Gilbert -- An interplay of passion and spirit : The nightingale's to blame / Richard E. McGregor -- Images in sound : movement, harmony and colour in the early music / Philip Rupprecht -- Myth and narrative in 3 for Icarus / Edward Venn -- Sound, sense and syntax : the Emily Dickinson settings / Steph Power -- Piano music / Stephen Gutman -- Redefining the cello's voice : musical agency in feet of clay / Rebecca Thumpston -- Performance and reflections : Holt's music for oboe and cor anglais / Melinda Maxwell -- Shaking the bars : the yellow wallpaper / Steph Power -- Listening to the river's road : stance, texture and space in the concertos / David Beard -- Orchestral works in performance / Thierry Fischer -- Oblique themes and still centres : a conversation between / Julia Bardsley and Simon Holt -- Sketching and idea-gathering / Simon Speare -- Art, conceptualism and politics in Holt's music / David Charlton
The United Trinity
When George Best, a dark-haired skinny teenager from Belfast, made his United debut in the autumn of 1963, he was joining a club still recovering from the horrors of Munich. Among his team-mates were goalscorer supreme Denis Law and England midfielder Bobby Charlton. Together they would combine to help United to win two league titles and a long-awaited European Cup as the Reds came to personify all that was most exciting about the Swinging Sixties. By 1968, all three men would have been honoured as European Footballer of the Year - the only time three winners of that award have lined up in the same side. In David Meek's compelling portrait of the United Trinity, he not only reveals their different characters and what made them so successful on the pitch, he also speaks to many of their team-mates to find out what it was like playing in the same side and researches contemporary reports to assess how they were viewed at the time. Having reported on their entire careers together, Meek has a unique insight into what made Best, Law and Charlton stand out as the truly special players they were.
Embodying the Yoga Sutra
Applying the 2,000-year-old Sanskrit text - the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - to yoga practiced today and demonstrating its relevance.
Lateral Flow Immunoassay
Due to the simplicity, relative accuracy, fast result reporting, and user-friendliness of lateral flow immunoassay, its use has undergone tremendous growth in the diagnostic industry in the last few years. Such technology has been utilized widely and includes pregnancy and woman's health determination, cardiac and emergency conditions monitoring and testing, infectious disease including Flu screening, cancer marker screening, and drugs abuse testing. This book covers the scope of utilization, the principle of the technology, the patent concerns, information on the development and production of the test device and specific applications will be of interest to the diagnostic industry and the general scientific community.
