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Music and Theatre
This volume of eleven essays, compiled as a tribute to Winton Dean on his seventieth birthday, focuses on that area which has absorbed Winton Dean's interest throughout his distinguished career: opera and other theatre music. The first half of the book covers the period from the late seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth. The second half of the book ranges over later opera: operacomique; Mendelssohn's operas; the influence of Wagner; the finales of Janácek's operas; and Britten's first two major operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia.
Essays on Opera
30 essays on opera, written between 1952 and 1985, are collected and arranged by topic.
Handel's Operas
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The Cambridge Companion to Handel
A Companion to one of the principal creative figures in Baroque music.
Handel's Operas, 1704-1726
The first volume of this monumental study of Handel's operatic works, covering the first seventeen operas.
Carmen
Bizet's Carmen is probably the best known opera of the standard repertoire, yet its very familiarity often prevents us from approaching it with the seriousness it deserves. This handbook explores the opera in a number of contexts, bringing to the surface the controversies over gender, race, class and musical propriety that greeted its premiere and that have been rekindled by the recent spate of film versions. Beginning with a study of the Mérimée story by Peter Robinson and an examination of the social tensions in nineteenth-century France that inform both that story and the opera, the book traces the latter through its genesis and reception. The central core of the book presents a close reading of the opera that offers new interpretive possibilities. The handbook concludes with discussions of four films based on the opera: Carmen Jones and the versions of Carmen by Carlos Saura, Peter Brook, and Francesco Rosi. The volume contains a bibliography, music examples, and a synopsis.
The New Grove Handel
This is the first full-length study of Handel by Winton Dean, who has long been recognized as the leading expert on the composer and his works, the operas and oratorios in particular. It charts his career both before and after he moved to England and pays particular attention to his stage works. Book jacket.
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.
Queer People
Exploring canonical and non-canonical literature, scurrilous pamphlets and court cases, music, religion and politics, consumer culture and sexual subcultures, these essays concern the lives and representations of homosexuals in the long eighteenth century
