Madamina

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Genre : Music
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Release : 1985
File : 264 Pages
ISBN-13 : UVA:X002071498


Music Sexuality And The Enlightenment In Mozart S Figaro Don Giovanni And Cos Fan Tutte

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Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment explains how Mozart's music for Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte 'sounds' the intentions of Da Ponte's characters and their relationships with one another. Mozart, by way of the infinitely generative and beautiful logic of the sonata principle, did not merely interpret Da Ponte's characterizations but lent them temporal, musical forms. Charles Ford's analytic interpretation of these musical forms concerns processes and structures in detail and at medium- to long-term levels. He addresses the music of a wide range of arias and ensembles, and develops original ways to interpret the two largely overlooked operatic genres of secco recitative and finales. Moreover, Ford presents a new method by which to relate musical details directly to philosophical concepts, and thereby, the music of the operas to the inwardly contradictory thinking of the European Enlightenment. This involves close readings of late eighteenth-century understandings of 'man' and nature, self and other, morality and transgression, and gendered identities and sexuality, with particular reference to contemporary writers, especially Goethe, Kant, Laclos, Rousseau, Sade, Schiller, Sterne and Wollstonecraft. The concluding discussion of the implied futures of the operas argues that their divided sexualities, which are those of the Enlightenment as a whole, have come to form our own unquestioned assumptions about gender differences and sexuality. This, along with the elegant and eloquent precision of Mozart's music, is why Figaro, Giovanni and Così still maintain their vital immediacy for audiences today.

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Genre : Music
Author : Charles Ford
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2016-04-29
File : 359 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317091561


Notes Of A Pianist

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Louis Moreau Gottschalk
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Release : 1881
File : 504 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105042704820


Don Giovanni

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Expertly arranged Vocal Score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from the Kalmus Edition series. This is from the Classical era.

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Genre : Music
Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Alfred Music
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File : 308 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1457482169


Varieties Of Musical Irony

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Sophisticated and engaging, this volume explores and compares musical irony in the works of major composers, from Mozart to Mahler.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Michael Cherlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2017-04-27
File : 285 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781107141292


Word By Word Translations Of Songs And Arias Part Ii

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This classic text, first published in 1972, has withstood the test of time as a teaching aid for English-speaking singers, teachers, coaches, and accompanists, in order that their art may be more communicative to the public. These word-by-word translations of songs and arias allow the artist to properly interpret and express the feelings and emotions that the words require at the proper time.

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Genre : Music
Author : Daniel Harris
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Release : 1993-11-01
File : 579 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781461731030


Opera

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Genre : Music
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Release : 1953
File : 902 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105006612936


An Interpretive Guide To Operatic Arias

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A premier singer and master teacher here tells other singers how to get the most from 151 famous arias selected for their popularity or their greatness from 66 operas, ranging in time and style from Christopher Gluck to Carlisle Floyd, from Mozart to Menotti. "The most memorable thrills in an opera singer's life," according to the author's Introduction, "may easily derive from the great arias in his or her repertoire." This book continues the work Martial Singher has done, in performances, in concerts, and in master classes and lessons, by drawing attention "not only to precise features of text, notes, and markings but also to psychological motivations and emotional impulses, to laughter and tears, to technical skills, to strokes of genius, and even here and there to variations from the original works that have proved to be fortunate." For each aria, the author gives the dramatic and musical context, advice about interpretation, and the lyric--with the original language (if it is not English) and an idiomatic American English translation, in parallel columns. The major operatic traditions--French, German, Italian, Russian, and American--are represented, as are the major voice types--soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass-baritone, and bass. The dramatic context is not a mere summary of the plot but is a penetrating and often witty personality sketch of an operatic character in the midst of a situation. The musical context is presented with the dramatic situation in a cleverly integrated way. Suggestions about interpretation, often illustrated with musical notation and phonetic symbols, are interspersed among the author's explication of the music and the action. An overview of Martial Singher's approach--based on fifty years of experience on stage in a hundred roles and in class at four leading conservatories--is presented in his Introduction. As the reader approaches each opera discussed in this book, he or she experiences the feeling of participation in a rehearsal on stage under an urbane though demanding coach and director. The Interpretive Guide will be of value to professional singers as a source of reference or renewed inspiration and a memory refresher, to coaches for checking and broadening personal impressions, to young singers and students for learning, to teachers who have enjoyed less than a half century of experience, and to opera broadcast listeners and telecast viewers who want to understand what goes into the sounds and sights that delight them.

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Genre : Music
Author : Martial Singher
Publisher : Penn State Press
Release : 1983
File : 372 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0271023546


Music

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This text has become widely used for music appreciation and introduction to music literature courses. This new edition re-examines the scholarship and refreshes the repertoire while maintaining its strengths of the original.

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Genre : Music
Author : Roger Kamien
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Release : 2000
File : 814 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105011414039


The Complete Opera Book

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Reproduction of the original: The Complete Opera Book by Gustav Kobbé

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Gustav Kobbé
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Release : 2020-07-24
File : 738 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783752333152