Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama (Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1409400824 ISBN 13: 9781409400820

Verlag: Routledge, 2011

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Críticas:

'This wide-ranging and exciting collection of essays is exactly the kind of interdisciplinary work that we have long hoped would emerge from the new histories of performing arts. Its contributors are at home in musicology and media history, in theatre and in performance studies, and the result is a new conceptualization of a long-despised genre, which is at last beginning to be understood.' Jacky Bratton, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK 'This is an important and useful book... We venture into the territory of musical melodrama at some peril which is precisely why we should do so, if with as much caution as enthusiasm of the kind that must surely be aroused by this collection of essays.' Music and Letters

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The genre of mélodrame à 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 scène 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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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1409400824
• ISBN 13: 9781409400820
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Herausgeber: Hibberd Sarah