Rossini`s reform - UTas ePrints
... Second was the passi, a short group of notes, which were introduced without disturbing the pulse, but created a rhythmic decoration. Third, lengthy passages of florid vocalisation, or passaggi, were included at least once in each of the A sections and also in the B section. The fourth type of orname ...
... Second was the passi, a short group of notes, which were introduced without disturbing the pulse, but created a rhythmic decoration. Third, lengthy passages of florid vocalisation, or passaggi, were included at least once in each of the A sections and also in the B section. The fourth type of orname ...
Review of Elliott Antokoletz and Marianne Wheeldon eds
... [5] Elliott Antokoletz’s “Music as Encoder of the Unconscious in Pelléas et Mélisande” is conspicuous for the opposite reason: bold interpretations of specific musical passages back his effort to make Debussy’s opera “resonate with the modernist conception of the human being, who is perennially divi ...
... [5] Elliott Antokoletz’s “Music as Encoder of the Unconscious in Pelléas et Mélisande” is conspicuous for the opposite reason: bold interpretations of specific musical passages back his effort to make Debussy’s opera “resonate with the modernist conception of the human being, who is perennially divi ...
Achille-Claude Debussy
... Hommage à Rameau, the second piece, is a slow and yearningly nostalgic. It takes as its inspiration a melody of from Jean-Philippe Rameau's, Castor et Pollux. The evocative Estampes for piano (1903) give impressions of exotic locations. Debussy came into contact with Javanese gamelan music during th ...
... Hommage à Rameau, the second piece, is a slow and yearningly nostalgic. It takes as its inspiration a melody of from Jean-Philippe Rameau's, Castor et Pollux. The evocative Estampes for piano (1903) give impressions of exotic locations. Debussy came into contact with Javanese gamelan music during th ...
Antonio Salieri - Dr David Wright
... innocente (Innocent Love) which was a light hearted comedy set in the Austrian mountains, and the second was based on an episode from Cervantes Don Quixote – Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace (Don Quixote at the Marriage of Camacho). In these first works, drawn mostly from the traditions of mid-ce ...
... innocente (Innocent Love) which was a light hearted comedy set in the Austrian mountains, and the second was based on an episode from Cervantes Don Quixote – Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace (Don Quixote at the Marriage of Camacho). In these first works, drawn mostly from the traditions of mid-ce ...
Mad Loves: Women and Music in Offenbach`s Les Contes d
... man (even a “poor wretch”) looking back over his life with the authority, perhaps for the first time, to make sense of the whole scope of his experience and to recount that experience to others. The opera is the last utterance of another dying man, its composer, for as Hoffmann reviews his three fol ...
... man (even a “poor wretch”) looking back over his life with the authority, perhaps for the first time, to make sense of the whole scope of his experience and to recount that experience to others. The opera is the last utterance of another dying man, its composer, for as Hoffmann reviews his three fol ...
Notes on History and Theory of Opera (Dramatic
... developed in directions far removed from these early models, due to both technical and cultural evolution. Opera is a mirror of contemporary people and their cultural environment. From its beginning, opera brought together all of the arts. It involved painting, poetry, drama, dance and music, maki ...
... developed in directions far removed from these early models, due to both technical and cultural evolution. Opera is a mirror of contemporary people and their cultural environment. From its beginning, opera brought together all of the arts. It involved painting, poetry, drama, dance and music, maki ...
"Pelléas" and Power
... journal carried a review of Pell as (sometimes more than one), whether the critics were seduced by the opera's charm or felt their values threatened by its scorn of traditions. Moreover, the heated discussions continued well past the first two weeks of performances;they extended over ten years, thro ...
... journal carried a review of Pell as (sometimes more than one), whether the critics were seduced by the opera's charm or felt their values threatened by its scorn of traditions. Moreover, the heated discussions continued well past the first two weeks of performances;they extended over ten years, thro ...
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
... the same composer. Il barbiere di Siviglia has enjoyed a continuous performance history from the date of its premier on February 20, 1816, right through to the present. In the case of an unfamiliar or unsuccessful work, whether or not in our view it deserves its obscurity (such as Torvaldo e Dorl ...
... the same composer. Il barbiere di Siviglia has enjoyed a continuous performance history from the date of its premier on February 20, 1816, right through to the present. In the case of an unfamiliar or unsuccessful work, whether or not in our view it deserves its obscurity (such as Torvaldo e Dorl ...
Les Troyens
... You must write this opera, this lyric poem, or whatever you like to call it. You must tackle it and you must finish it … If you are so feeble as to be afraid to face everything for Dido and Cassandra, then never come back here—I refuse to see you again. He began work on the libretto in March 1856, w ...
... You must write this opera, this lyric poem, or whatever you like to call it. You must tackle it and you must finish it … If you are so feeble as to be afraid to face everything for Dido and Cassandra, then never come back here—I refuse to see you again. He began work on the libretto in March 1856, w ...
Kaela Wolf January 3, 2013 A.N. Pritzker 304
... recognized that he had talent, but they thought some of his attempts to create new sounds were odd. Nadezhda von Meck, who had helped support Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, hired Debussy to teach her children piano. He traveled to Italy and Austria with her and her family and spent parts ...
... recognized that he had talent, but they thought some of his attempts to create new sounds were odd. Nadezhda von Meck, who had helped support Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, hired Debussy to teach her children piano. He traveled to Italy and Austria with her and her family and spent parts ...
Schreker and the End of Opera-formatted
... ten are constantly put on, is an exception. There have always been good and bad operas . . . »3 . The state of the genre was essentially steady, which did not, in his opinion, indicate a crisis. Speaking of operatic ratios, Michael Walter has shown that in that same 1926-27 season in Germany, new wo ...
... ten are constantly put on, is an exception. There have always been good and bad operas . . . »3 . The state of the genre was essentially steady, which did not, in his opinion, indicate a crisis. Speaking of operatic ratios, Michael Walter has shown that in that same 1926-27 season in Germany, new wo ...
“Literaturoper”: a term StiLL in Search of a Definition
... Compared with the definitions of Istel or Dahlhaus, this has a crucial addition in its final phrase. If the model for a Literaturoper necessarily remains present as a structural element within the resulting opera, a Literaturoper is essentially, by definition, intertextual. It follows that the succe ...
... Compared with the definitions of Istel or Dahlhaus, this has a crucial addition in its final phrase. If the model for a Literaturoper necessarily remains present as a structural element within the resulting opera, a Literaturoper is essentially, by definition, intertextual. It follows that the succe ...
Gioachino Rossini - Classics For Kids
... 29, 1792 – in Pesaro, Italy. From the outset, Rossini had little chance of not making a successful career in music. His father, Giuseppe Rossini, was an accomplished horn player and his mother, Anna Guidarini, was a locally famous operatic singer. Not surprisingly then, young Gioachino learned the h ...
... 29, 1792 – in Pesaro, Italy. From the outset, Rossini had little chance of not making a successful career in music. His father, Giuseppe Rossini, was an accomplished horn player and his mother, Anna Guidarini, was a locally famous operatic singer. Not surprisingly then, young Gioachino learned the h ...
HWM II - Composition at Bilkent
... imitating rustic music) but bears some resemblance to the more serious madrigal, one of the major forms of the century. It is light in mood, with a clear four- to six-voice texture, and is characterized by dancelike rhythms, some word painting (musical depiction of certain words like “flight” or “fi ...
... imitating rustic music) but bears some resemblance to the more serious madrigal, one of the major forms of the century. It is light in mood, with a clear four- to six-voice texture, and is characterized by dancelike rhythms, some word painting (musical depiction of certain words like “flight” or “fi ...
The Barber of Seville
... Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, 1792 –1868,was the most important Italian opera composer during the first half of the nineteenth century. A whole generation of music lovers, from 1820 to 1840, acclaimed Rossini the undisputed king of opera composers, living or dead, and in the eyes of the opera world, h ...
... Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, 1792 –1868,was the most important Italian opera composer during the first half of the nineteenth century. A whole generation of music lovers, from 1820 to 1840, acclaimed Rossini the undisputed king of opera composers, living or dead, and in the eyes of the opera world, h ...
Rusalka - Dallas ISD
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Bizet - L`Arlesienne Suites
... notoriety, beyond his other works. Daudet, though a contemporary of Dickens, had more in common with a Dickensian character than with fine authorship. His tragic life, early promiscuity, later sy ...
... notoriety, beyond his other works. Daudet, though a contemporary of Dickens, had more in common with a Dickensian character than with fine authorship. His tragic life, early promiscuity, later sy ...
SESSION 1: OPERA NARRATIVES AND ORIGINS THE
... Adèle Commins, Dundalk Institute of Technology Difficulties with the classification of genres have dominated musicological studies. The emergence of the unattached or independent prelude with an abandonment of its prefatory role in the nineteenth century resulted in a change of function and differin ...
... Adèle Commins, Dundalk Institute of Technology Difficulties with the classification of genres have dominated musicological studies. The emergence of the unattached or independent prelude with an abandonment of its prefatory role in the nineteenth century resulted in a change of function and differin ...
För pdf engl.indd
... ideas but in the 1630s France began to develop a national style which resisted Italian influences for over a hundred years. JeanBaptiste Lully, an Italian by birth, came to establish the national French style, creating the tragédie l yrique and contributing to the grand motet. Dancing with the young ...
... ideas but in the 1630s France began to develop a national style which resisted Italian influences for over a hundred years. JeanBaptiste Lully, an Italian by birth, came to establish the national French style, creating the tragédie l yrique and contributing to the grand motet. Dancing with the young ...
Bel Canto: The Old Italian Vocal Technique and Its
... known to be the first opera, Euridice. From this origin, a highly respected and appreciated tradition of singing began to move on to the innovations in singing such as the Opera, where this technique has been mostly used during the peak of the said genre. Bel canto was first used exclusively by men, ...
... known to be the first opera, Euridice. From this origin, a highly respected and appreciated tradition of singing began to move on to the innovations in singing such as the Opera, where this technique has been mostly used during the peak of the said genre. Bel canto was first used exclusively by men, ...
Alimelek - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... Kaliphen), written in Munich in 1812, was taken from a tale in The Arabian Nights. The story of the man who would be sovereign, if only for one day, so frequently treated in the literature of all nations (and by Shakespeare, too, in the prologue to The Taming of the Shrew), in its Eastern version is ...
... Kaliphen), written in Munich in 1812, was taken from a tale in The Arabian Nights. The story of the man who would be sovereign, if only for one day, so frequently treated in the literature of all nations (and by Shakespeare, too, in the prologue to The Taming of the Shrew), in its Eastern version is ...
Chapter 4: European Art Music: Middle Ages to
... on the nature, potential, and accomplishments of man in literature, art and music, science, and philosophy. The medieval approach to understanding the world, which was based on speculative systems of divine order and harmony, was supplanted by theories derived from scienti c observation. Learning wa ...
... on the nature, potential, and accomplishments of man in literature, art and music, science, and philosophy. The medieval approach to understanding the world, which was based on speculative systems of divine order and harmony, was supplanted by theories derived from scienti c observation. Learning wa ...
Program Notes CESAR Symposium Williams College
... of art. Character pieces appear infrequently in the early part of the century, but gradually became the standard after 1730. Dedicatory pieces were written to honor or acknowledge famous or influential persons, and carried the name of the dedicatee in the title. This genre was usually abstract in na ...
... of art. Character pieces appear infrequently in the early part of the century, but gradually became the standard after 1730. Dedicatory pieces were written to honor or acknowledge famous or influential persons, and carried the name of the dedicatee in the title. This genre was usually abstract in na ...
Nina: Synopsis
... between the ensembles and arias instead of recitative. The reason for this is that it is modelled on a French opéra comique called Nina, ou la folle par amour first performed in Paris in 1786 with words by Benoît Joseph Marsollier and music by Nicholas Dalayrac. French comic opera, unlike Italian, c ...
... between the ensembles and arias instead of recitative. The reason for this is that it is modelled on a French opéra comique called Nina, ou la folle par amour first performed in Paris in 1786 with words by Benoît Joseph Marsollier and music by Nicholas Dalayrac. French comic opera, unlike Italian, c ...
Opera A to Z
... Tosca: opera in three acts by Puccini; first performed in 1900; set in Rome during the Napoleonic Wars; one of the most famous of verismo operas. traviata, La : opera in three acts by Verdi; libretto is by Piave after a story by the younger Alexandre Dumas usually known as Camille; the story is abou ...
... Tosca: opera in three acts by Puccini; first performed in 1900; set in Rome during the Napoleonic Wars; one of the most famous of verismo operas. traviata, La : opera in three acts by Verdi; libretto is by Piave after a story by the younger Alexandre Dumas usually known as Camille; the story is abou ...
French opera
French opera is one of Europe's most important operatic traditions, containing works by composers of the stature of Lully, Rameau, Berlioz, Bizet, Debussy, Poulenc and Messiaen. Many foreign-born composers have played a part in the French tradition as well, including Gluck, Salieri, Cherubini, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Offenbach and Verdi.French opera began at the court of Louis XIV of France with Jean-Baptiste Lully's Cadmus et Hermione (1673), although there had been various experiments with the form before that, most notably Pomone by Robert Cambert. Lully and his librettist Quinault created tragédie en musique, a form in which dance music and choral writing were particularly prominent. Lully's most important successor was Rameau. After Rameau's death, the German Gluck was persuaded to produce six operas for the Parisian stage in the 1770s. They show the influence of Rameau, but simplified and with greater focus on the drama. At the same time, by the middle of the 18th century another genre was gaining popularity in France: opéra comique, in which arias alternated with spoken dialogue. By the 1820s, Gluckian influence in France had given way to a taste for the operas of Rossini. Rossini's Guillaume Tell helped found the new genre of Grand opera, a form whose most famous exponent was Giacomo Meyerbeer. Lighter opéra comique also enjoyed tremendous success in the hands of Boïeldieu, Auber and others. In this climate, the operas of the French-born composer Hector Berlioz struggled to gain a hearing. Berlioz's epic masterpiece Les Troyens, the culmination of the Gluckian tradition, was not given a full performance for almost a hundred years after it was written.In the second half of the 19th century, Jacques Offenbach dominated the new genre of operetta with witty and cynical works such as Orphée aux enfers; Charles Gounod scored a massive success with Faust; and Bizet composed Carmen, probably the most famous French opera of all. At the same time, the influence of Richard Wagner was felt as a challenge to the French tradition. Perhaps the most interesting response to Wagnerian influence was Claude Debussy's unique operatic masterpiece Pelléas et Mélisande (1902). Other notable 20th century names include Ravel, Poulenc and Messiaen.