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Opera / by Robert Cannon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge introductions to musicPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.Description: 360 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780521746472 (pbk.) :
  • 9780521763028 (hbk.) :
  • 9780521746472
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 782.1 CAN
LOC classification:
  • ML1700
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I.The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- 1.Pre-operatic forms -- 2.First operatic forms -- 3.Formalisation -- 4.Reform: the reintegration of elements -- 5.Comedty and the \'real world\' -- 6.Authentic performance -- Part II.The nineteenth century -- 7.Romanticism and romantic opera in Germany -- 8.Opera in nineteenth-century Italy -- 9.Grand ope�ra and the visual language of opera -- 10.The Wagnerian revolution -- 11.Nationalists: vernacular language and music -- 12.The role of the singer - Part III.The twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- 13.The turn of the century and the crisis in opera -- 14.First modernism: symbolist and expressionist opera -- 15.The dramaturgy of opera: libretto - words and structures -- 16.Narrative opera: realistic and non-realistic -- 17.Radical narratives -- 18.Directors and the direction of opera.
Summary: Designed for music students and opera-goers, this book enables a thorough understanding of what opera is and how it works, with an emphasis on its dramatic experience. Organised chronologically, the book shows how the many different kinds of opera have developed and explores specific examples using illustrative tables.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 782.1 CAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 215691

Includes bibliographical references (p.414-426) and index.

Introduction -- Part I.The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- 1.Pre-operatic forms -- 2.First operatic forms -- 3.Formalisation -- 4.Reform: the reintegration of elements -- 5.Comedty and the \'real world\' -- 6.Authentic performance -- Part II.The nineteenth century -- 7.Romanticism and romantic opera in Germany -- 8.Opera in nineteenth-century Italy -- 9.Grand ope�ra and the visual language of opera -- 10.The Wagnerian revolution -- 11.Nationalists: vernacular language and music -- 12.The role of the singer - Part III.The twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- 13.The turn of the century and the crisis in opera -- 14.First modernism: symbolist and expressionist opera -- 15.The dramaturgy of opera: libretto - words and structures -- 16.Narrative opera: realistic and non-realistic -- 17.Radical narratives -- 18.Directors and the direction of opera.

Designed for music students and opera-goers, this book enables a thorough understanding of what opera is and how it works, with an emphasis on its dramatic experience. Organised chronologically, the book shows how the many different kinds of opera have developed and explores specific examples using illustrative tables.

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