Classics in America by Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990

French opera : a short history / by Giroud, Vincent

Table of Contents: “…1 From the Origins to Lully -- 2 From Lully to Rameau -- 3 The Age of Rameau -- 4 Gluck to Revolution -- 5 Revolution to Romanticism -- 6 The Age of Grand Opera -- 7 French Opera under the Second Empire -- 8 From Carmen to Pelleas -- 9 From the Belle Epoque to the Annees Folles -- 10 Crisis and Renewal.…”
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The Tibetan book of the dead : the great liberation through hearing / by Gordon, Ricky Ian

Opera and society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu /

Table of Contents: “…Fulcher -- Rewriting history from the losers' point of view : French grand opera and modernity / Antoine Hennion -- Conclusion : towards a new understanding of the history of opera? …”
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Tonality as drama : closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas / by Latham, Edward David

Table of Contents: “…Tonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).…”
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Opera and society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu /

Table of Contents: “…Fulcher -- Rewriting history from the losers' point of view : French grand opera and modernity / Antoine Hennion -- Conclusion : towards a new understanding of the history of opera? …”
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Opera in context : essays on historical staging from the late Renaissance to the time of Puccini /

Table of Contents: “…Douglas Bomberger -- Paradise found : the Salle Le Peletier and French grand opera / by Karin Pendle and Stephen Wilkins -- Verdi's operas and Giuseppe Bertoja's designs at the Gran teatro La Fenice, Venice ; Richard Wagner and his search for the ideal theatrical space / by Evan Baker -- Realism on the opera stage : Belasco, Puccini, and the California sunset / by Helen M. …”

Opera / by Cannon, Robert, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Romanticism and romantic opera in Germany -- Opera in nineteenth-century Italy -- Grand opéra and the visual language of opera -- The Wagnerian revolution -- Nationalists : vernacular language and music -- The role of the singer -- -- Part III : The twentieth and twenty-first centuries. …”
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Drama and the world of Richard Wagner / by Borchmeyer, Dieter

Table of Contents: “…Love's madness, fairy-tale enchantment, and a Sicilian carnival : Die Hochzeit, Die Feen, and Das Liebesverbot -- On the uses and disadvantages of history for the music drama-grand opera : Die hohe Braut, Rienzi, and their consequences -- The transformations of Ahasuerus : The flying Dutchman and his metamorphoses -- Venus in exile : Tannhüuser between romanticism and young Germany -- Lohengrin : the mythical palimpsest of Wagner's last romantic opera -- Love and objectification in the music drama : Tristan's Isolde and her sisters -- Nuremberg as an aesthetic state : Die Meistersinger, an image and counterimage of history -- The myth of the beginning and end of history : Der Ring des Nibelungen -- Redemption and apocatastasis : Parsifal and the religion of the late Wagner -- An encounter between two anomalies : King Ludwig II and Wagner -- Wagner and Bismarck : an epoch-making nonrelationship -- Two-faced passion : Nietzsche's critique of Wagner -- Parallel action : Thomas Mann's response to Wagner -- The disinherited heir to the throne : Franz Wilhelm Beidler, Wagner's "lost grandson," a postlude.…”

Creating costumes for devised theatre / by Kazuschyk, Kyla

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Master class with Stephen King /

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Opéra-Comique : a Sourcebook.

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The Americans come : an episode in France in the year 1918 / by Foster, Fay, 1886-1960

Anna Karenina : an opera in two acts based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy / by Carlson, David, 1952-

Selling sounds : the commercial revolution in American music / by Suisman, David

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Anglo-Saxon culture and the modern imagination /

Table of Contents: “…7 BOOM : Seeing Beowulf in Pictures and Print8 Window in the Wall : Looking for Grand Opera in John Gardner's Grendel; 9 Re-placing Masculinity : The DC Comics Beowulf Series and its Context, 1975-6; 10 P.D. …”
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Les Huguenots / by Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864

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Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio / by Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901

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Mozart at the gateway to his fortune : serving the Emperor, 1788-1791 / by Wolff, Christoph

Table of Contents: “…; More than an Egyptian opera ; The language of "grand opera" -- "The higher pathetic style of church music" and the Requiem. …”

Fromental Halévy and His Operas, 1842-1862. by Letellier, Robert Ignatius

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