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Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama (Paperback)
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Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
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The genre of melodrame A grand spectacle that emerged in the
boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly
exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and
evil through a drama of heightened emotions. Physical gesture, mise
en scene and music were as important in communicating meaning and
passion as spoken dialogue. The premise of this volume is the idea
that the melodramatic aesthetic is central to our understanding of
nineteenth-century music drama, broadly defined as spoken plays
with music, operas and other hybrid genres that combine music with
text and/or image. This relationship is examined closely, and its
evolution in the twentieth century in selected operas, musicals and
films is understood as an extension of this nineteenth-century
aesthetic. The book therefore develops our understanding of opera
in the context of melodrama's broader influence on musical culture
during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book will
appeal to those interested in film studies, drama, theatre and
modern languages as well as music and opera.
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