Opera and the city : the politics of culture in Beijing, 1770-1900 / by Goldman, Andrea S.

Table of Contents: “…Opera aficionados and guides to boy-actresses -- Metropolitan opera, border crossings, and the state -- Musical genre, opera hierarchy, and court patronage -- Social melodrama and the sexing of political complaint -- Sex versus violence in "I, sister-in-law" operas…”
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Carl Maria von Weber and the search for a German opera / by Meyer, Stephen C., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Inventing German opera -- The native and the foreign : models for the German opera -- Der Freischütz and the character of the nation -- Euryanthe : reconfiguration and transformation -- Epilogue : Institutions, aesthetics, and genre after Weber's death -- Appendices. …”
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Building the operatic museum : eighteenth-century opera in fin-de-siècle Paris / by Gibbons, William 1981-

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Animation, plasticity, and music in Italy, 1770-1830 / by Lockhart, Ellen

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Narrative interludes : musical tableaux in eighteenth-century French texts / by Cuillé, Tili Boon

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Ascendant peace in the four seas : drama and the Qing Imperial Court / by Ye, Xiaoqing

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- Imperial institutions for ceremonial and private performances -- Drama, occasion, and audience -- Performers in the palace -- Cultural and political control -- Peking Opera and the court -- Conclusion. Peking Opera and a new political focus -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index for operas and other works -- Index for general entries.…”
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Ascendant Peace in the Four Seas : Drama and the Qing Imperial Court / by Ye, Xiaoqing

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- Imperial institutions for ceremonial and private performances -- Drama, occasion, and audience -- Performers in the palace -- Cultural and political control -- Peking Opera and the court -- Conclusion. Peking Opera and a new political focus -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index for operas and other works -- Index for general entries.…”
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Ascendant peace in the four seas : drama and the Qing Imperial Court / by Ye, Xiaoqing

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- Imperial institutions for ceremonial and private performances -- Drama, occasion, and audience -- Performers in the palace -- Cultural and political control -- Peking Opera and the court -- Conclusion. Peking Opera and a new political focus -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index for operas and other works -- Index for general entries.…”
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Haydn's sunrise, Beethoven's shadow : audiovisual culture and the emergence of musical Romanticism / by Loughridge, Deirdre

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : audiovisual histories -- From mimesis to prosthesis -- Opera as peepshow -- Shadow media -- Haydn's Creation as moving image -- Beethoven's phantasmagoria -- Conclusion : audiovisual returns.…”
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The lure of perfection : fashion and ballet, 1780-1830 / by Chazin-Bennahum, Judith

Table of Contents: “…Pale goddesses on the street during the Romantic Movement -- ch. 8. The kingdom of the opera -- ch. 9. The turning point -- ch. 10. The dark side of white.…”
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Music and Society in Cork, 1700-1900 / by O'Regan, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Music and the established church to 1820 -- 4. 'Spirited Lessees' : opera and theatre music to 1840 -- 5. 'A refined public:' music for charity and amusement -- 6. …”
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Romantic prose fiction /

Table of Contents: “…The complicated case of Romantic opera; 7.1 The German opera on its way to the "total work of art"; 7.2 Romantic Opera: A national project or an international event?…”
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Absolute music and the construction of meaning / by Chua, Daniel K. L., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…On disenchantment. 4. On division. 5. On opera. 6. On machines. 7. On space. 8. On style -- pt. 2. …”
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Consuming music : individuals, institutions, communities, 1730-1830 /

Table of Contents: “…Green -- Inside a Viennese Kunsthandlung : Artaria in 1784 / Rupert Ridgewell -- Morality and the "fair-sexing" of Telemann's faithful music master / Steven Zohn -- Eighteenth-century mediations of music theory : meter, tempo, and affect in print / Roger Mathew Grant -- Musical style as commercial strategy in Romantic chamber music / Marie Sumner Lott -- In Vienna "only waltzes get printed" : the decline and transformation of the Contredanse Hongroise in the early nineteenth century / Catherine Mayes -- The power to please : gender and celebrity self-commodification in the early American republic / Glenda Goodman -- Exchanging ideas in a changing world : Adolph Bernhard Marz and the Berliner allgemeine musikalische Zeitung in 1824 / Patrick Wood Uribe -- Parisian opera between commons and commodity, ca. 1830 / Peter Mondelli.…”
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Stage mothers : women, work, and the theater, 1660-1830 /

Table of Contents: “…Rosenthal -- Rowe's The ambitious stepmother: motherhood and the politics of the blended family / Marilyn Francus -- Staged virtue: Anastasia Robinson as ideal mother in two operas of the 1720 / Kathryn Lowerre -- Maternal duties and filial malapropisms: Frances Sheridan and the problems of theatrical inheritance / Emrys Jones -- My son, my lover: Gothic contagion and maternal sexuality in the mysterious mother / Jade Higa -- Actresses and their children: Elizabeth and Keppel Craven and the domestic drama of mother-son relations / Judith Hawley -- Mommy diva: the divided loyalities of Sarah Siddons / Laura Engel -- The Gerbini letters: or, a tale of two mothers / Gilli Bush-Bailey.…”
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Spanish America and British romanticism, 1777-1826 : rewriting conquest / by Heinowitz, R. Cole

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Leisure cultures in urban Europe, c.1700-1870 : a transnational perspective /

Table of Contents: “…II Processes of selection and adaptation: actors and structures5 Georgian Bath: a transnational culture; Foreign influences; Vectors of transmission; Resistance, adaptation and nationalism; Notes; 6 Music and opera in Brussels, 1700-1850: a tale of two cities; The court as the measure of all music; Music, cosmopolitanism and the public sphere; The politics of language; Shifting cultural outlooks: the French and Dutch regimes; In search of a Belgian national and cultural identity; Growing Flemish resentment; Conclusion; Notes…”
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Leisure cultures in urban Europe, c.1700-1870 : a transnational perspective /

Table of Contents: “…II Processes of selection and adaptation: actors and structures5 Georgian Bath: a transnational culture; Foreign influences; Vectors of transmission; Resistance, adaptation and nationalism; Notes; 6 Music and opera in Brussels, 1700-1850: a tale of two cities; The court as the measure of all music; Music, cosmopolitanism and the public sphere; The politics of language; Shifting cultural outlooks: the French and Dutch regimes; In search of a Belgian national and cultural identity; Growing Flemish resentment; Conclusion; Notes…”
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Quarter notes and bank notes : the economics of music composition in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / by Scherer, F. M.

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America in Italy : the United States in the political thought and imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763-1865 / by Körner, Axel, 1967-

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