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Book Synopsis Recueil factice d'articles de presse sur Eugène Bertrand, directeur de l'Opéra, 1891-1931 by :
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Author : Steven Moore Whiting
Release : 1999-02-18
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Satie the Bohemian by : Steven Moore Whiting
Download or read book Satie the Bohemian written by Steven Moore Whiting. This book was released on 1999-02-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian subculture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafés-concerts. Yet apologists have all too often downplayed this background as potentially harmful to the reputation of a composer whom they regarded as the progenitor of modern French music. Whiting argues, on the contrary, that Satie's two decades in and around Montmartre decisively shaped his aesthetic priorities and compositional strategies. He gives the fullest account to date of Satie's professional activities as a popular musician, and of how he transferred the parodic techniques and musical idioms of cabaret entertainment to works for concert hall. From the esoteric Gymnopédies to the bizarre suites of the 1910s and avant-garde ballets of the 1920s (not to mention music journalism and playwriting), Satie's output may be daunting in its sheer diversity and heterodoxy; but his radical transvaluation of received artistic values makes far better sense once placed in the fascinating context of bohemian Montmartre.
Author : Steven Huebner
Release : 2006-02-02
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis French Opera at the Fin de Siècle by : Steven Huebner
Download or read book French Opera at the Fin de Siècle written by Steven Huebner. This book was released on 2006-02-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven Huebner gives an accessible and colorful account of such operatic favorites as Manon and Werther by Massenet, Louise by Charpentier, and lesser-known gems such as Chabrier's Le Roi malgré lui and Chausson's Le Roi Arthus.
Author : Susan Rutherford
Release : 2006-08-10
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930 by : Susan Rutherford
Download or read book The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930 written by Susan Rutherford. This book was released on 2006-08-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the female opera singer during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author : Karen Henson
Release : 2015-01-15
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Opera Acts by : Karen Henson
Download or read book Opera Acts written by Karen Henson. This book was released on 2015-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case studies of four figures - the late Verdi baritone Victor Maurel; Bizet's first Carmen, Célestine Galli-Marié; Massenet's muse of the 1880s and 1890s, Sibyl Sanderson; and the early Wagner star Jean de Reszke - Karen Henson argues that singers in the late nineteenth century continued to be important, but in ways that were not conventionally 'vocal'. Instead they enjoyed a freedom and creativity based on their ability to express text, act and communicate physically, and exploit the era's media. By these and other means, singers played a crucial role in the creation of opera up to the end of the nineteenth century.
