Opera From the Greek

2016 MUSIC

Author : Michael Ewans
Release : 2016
Genre : MUSIC
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Download or read book Opera From the Greek written by Michael Ewans. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Michael Ewans explores how classical Greek tragedy and epic poetry have been appropriated in opera, through eight selected case studies. These range from Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, drawn from Homer's Odyssey, to Mark-Antony Turnage's Greek, based on Sophocles's Oedipus the King. Choices have been based on an understanding that the relationship between each of the operas and their Greek source texts raise significant issues, involving an examination of the process by which the librettist creates a new text for the opera, and the crucial insights into the nature of the drama that are bestowed by the composer's musical setting. Ewans examines the issues through a comparative analysis of significant divergences of plot, character and dramatic strategy between source text, libretto and opera."--Provided by publisher.

Opera from the Greek

2007-01-01 Music

Author : Michael Ewans
Release : 2007-01-01
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 996/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Opera from the Greek written by Michael Ewans. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Ewans explores how classical Greek tragedy and epic poetry have been appropriated in opera, through eight selected case studies. He examines the issues through a comparative analysis of significant divergences of plot, character and dramatic strategy between source text, libretto and opera.

Opera From the Greek

2017-07-05 Music

Author : Michael Ewans
Release : 2017-07-05
Genre : Music
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Download or read book Opera From the Greek written by Michael Ewans. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Ewans explores how classical Greek tragedy and epic poetry have been appropriated in opera, through eight selected case studies. These range from Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, drawn from Homer's Odyssey, to Mark-Antony Turnage's Greek, based on Sophocles's Oedipus the King. Choices have been based on an understanding that the relationship between each of the operas and their Greek source texts raise significant issues, involving an examination of the process by which the librettist creates a new text for the opera, and the crucial insights into the nature of the drama that are bestowed by the composer's musical setting. Ewans examines the issues through a comparative analysis of significant divergences of plot, character and dramatic strategy between source text, libretto and opera.

Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage

2010-09-02 History

Author : Peter Brown
Release : 2010-09-02
Genre : History
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Download or read book Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage written by Peter Brown. This book was released on 2010-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera was invented at the end of the sixteenth century in imitation of the supposed style of delivery of ancient Greek tragedy, and, since then, operas based on Greek drama have been among the most important in the repertoire. This collection of essays by leading authorities in the fields of Classics, Musicology, Dance Studies, English Literature, Modern Languages, and Theatre Studies provides an exceptionally wide-ranging and detailed overview of the relationship between the two genres. Since tragedies have played a much larger part than comedies in this branch of operatic history, the volume mostly concentrates on the tragic repertoire, but a chapter on musical versions of Aristophanes' Lysistrata is included, as well as discussions of incidental music, a very important part of the musical reception of ancient drama, from Andrea Gabrieli in 1585 to Harrison Birtwistle and Judith Weir in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Greek

1990 Music

Author : Mark-Anthony Turnage
Release : 1990
Genre : Music
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Download or read book Greek written by Mark-Anthony Turnage. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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