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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos,
University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.
Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Situated at the
intersections of twentieth-century music history, historiography,
and aesthetics, Middlebrow Modernism uses Benjamin Britten's operas
to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics, and audiences
mediated the "great divide" between modernism and mass culture.
Reviving mid-century discussions of the middlebrow, Christopher
Chowrimootoo demonstrates how Britten's works allowed audiences to
have their modernist cake and eat it: to revel in the pleasures of
consonance, lyricism, and theatrical spectacle even while enjoying
the prestige that came from rejecting them. By focusing on moments
when reigning aesthetic oppositions and hierarchies threatened to
collapse, this study offers a powerful model for recovering shades
of grey in the traditionally black-and-white historiographies of
twentieth-century music.
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Also Contains: The Deserter: A Musical Drama; The Wedding Ring: A
Comic Opera; The Waterman Or The First Of August: A Ballad Opera.
This book is concerned with a hundred years of musical drama in
England. It charts the development of the genre from the theatre
works of Henry Purcell (and his contemporaries) to the dramatic
oratorios of George Frideric Handel (and his). En route it
investigates the objections to all-sung drama in English that were
articulated in the decades around 1700, various proposed solutions,
the importation of Italian opera, and the creation of the dramatic
oratorio - English drama, all-sung but not staged. Most of the
constituent essays take an in-depth look at a particular aspect of
the process, while others draw attention to dramatic qualities in
non-dramatic works that also were performed in the theatre. The
journey from Purcell to Handel illustrates the vigour and vitality
of English theatrical and musical traditions, and Handel's dramatic
oratorios and other settings of English words answer questions
posed before he was born.
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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The Bible and Western culture is a burgeoning area of interest in
recent scholarship, but comparatively little has been written on
the Bible and music. Leneman's is a groundbreaking work, making
some pioneering forays across an important interdisciplinary
divide. The Performed Bible is an in-depth study of the librettos
and music of 12 operas and oratorios on the story of Ruth from the
last two centuries, establishing the potential of music, as a kind
of midrash, for transforming a Bible text, its narrative and its
characterization. The book includes detailed analyses of musical
segments, the author being a cantor and professional musician in
whose Jewish tradition biblical texts are chanted, not read. This
fresh and insightful work will no doubt prove attractive to
biblical scholars, to musicians and to music lovers generally.
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John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College
London, in German language and literature. He has worked in
personnel administration, record retailing and bibliographic
research for a government agency and is on the lecture panel of the
National Federation of Music Societies. In his capacity as Chairman
of the Furtwangler Society UK, John Hunt has attended conventions
in Rome, Paris and Zurich and has contributed to important
reference works about Furtwangler by John Ardoin and Joachim
Matzner. He has also translated from the German Jurgen Kesting's
important monograph on Maria Callas. John Hunt has published
discographies of over 80 performing artists, several of which have
run into two or more editions.
John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College
London, in German language and literature. He has worked in
personnel administration, record retailing and bibliographic
research for a government agency and is on the lecture panel of the
National Federation of Music Societies. In his capacity as Chairman
of the Furtwangler Society UK, John Hunt has attended conventions
in Rome, Paris and Zurich and has contributed to important
reference works about Furtwangler by John Ardoin and Joachim
Matzner. He has also translated from the German Jurgen Kesting's
important monograph on Maria Callas. John Hunt has published
discographies of over 80 performing artists, several of which have
run into two or more editions.
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Mae Naak (vocal Score)
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Somtow Sucharitkul; Contributions by S.P. Somtow, Trisdee Na Patalung
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A complete vocal score of Somtow Sucharitkul's 2003 horror opera,
"Mae Naak," edited and with a piano reduction by Trisdee na
Patalung. The Nation called this opera "a truly great work" with
its exotic colors and ironic cross-breeding of Thai folk music with
the tropes of horror film music. As noted for its grand guignol as
its sweeping lyricism, "Mae Naak" has been garnering rave reviews
since its Bangkok Opera debut with Nancy Yuen in the title role.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
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First published in 1897, this was among the earliest works about
Wagner and his works to come from outside Bayreuth and presented
careful and probing analyses of both the poems and the music,
touching for the first time on the essential themes and questions
of Wagner's life and work, the use of the leit-motif and the
universe of his creative work. Contains all of the original
illustrations. A work explaining and interpreting Wagner and his
music, which is extremely valuable for the French point of view
which it presents. This title is cited and recommended by Books for
College Libraries and the Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard
College.
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