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Adolphe Adam is known for ‘O Holy Night’, but his legacy is much more. His ballet Giselle is the quintessence of Romanticism, while his opera Le Postillon de Lonjumeau is still played worldwide. This study considers the composer’s life, examining his 42 operas and 14 ballets.
Adolphe Adam is known for ‘O Holy Night’, but his legacy is much more. His ballet Giselle is the quintessence of Romanticism, while his opera Le Postillon de Lonjumeau is still played worldwide. This study considers the composer’s life, examining his 42 operas and 14 ballets.
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Auber’s operas, with librettist Eugene Scribe, cover a tumultuous 50-year period of French history. Their work is a remarkable reflection on the era's great themes: political tumult, bourgeois rectitude, the artistic life, rebel outlaws, and enterprising womanhood.
Auber’s operas, with librettist Eugene Scribe, cover a tumultuous 50-year period of French history. Their work is a remarkable reflection on the era’s great themes: political tumult, bourgeois rectitude, the artistic life, rebel outlaws, and enterprising womanhood.
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While famous for ‘O Holy Night’, composer Adolphe-Charles Adam’s greatest achievement was ballet. His Giselle is the quintessence of Romanticism. This book examines his 14 works for the dance, charting the efflorescence of the Romantic ballet in Paris from 1830-1860.
While famous for ‘O Holy Night’, composer Adolphe-Charles Adam’s greatest achievement was ballet. His Giselle is the quintessence of Romanticism. This book examines his 14 works for the dance, charting the efflorescence of the Romantic ballet in Paris from 1830-1860.
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Music and Sonic Art
Theories and Practices
This title gathers practitioners and theorists of music and sonic art to discuss a range of historical, artistic, pedagogical and critical issues from multiple perspectives, emphasizing the continuities and links along a broad spectrum of hearing and listening practices.
This title gathers practitioners and theorists of music and sonic art to discuss a range of historical, artistic, pedagogical and critical issues from multiple perspectives, emphasizing the continuities and links along a broad spectrum of hearing and listening practices.
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William Orpen, an Outsider in France
Painting and Writing World War One
As an official war artist in WWI, William Orpen created a unique textual and visual record of life on the Western Front. This study examines the singular and provocative work of the non-combatant artist who determined to fight the “War to End all Wars” with his pens and brushes.
As an official war artist in WWI, William Orpen created a unique textual and visual record of life on the Western Front. This study examines the singular and provocative work of the non-combatant artist who determined to fight the “War to End all Wars” with his pens and brushes.
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A Study of the Parallels between Visual Art and Music
The Big Misconception
Standard surveys of art imply a continuity between Rembrandt and Koons, between Caravaggio and Hirst. They are all wrong. There is no such continuity. This book explains why these claims are false, and how we arrived at this point of great confusion about the arts.
Standard surveys of art imply a continuity between Rembrandt and Koons, between Caravaggio and Hirst.
They are all wrong. There is no such continuity. This book explains why these claims are false, and how we arrived at this point of great confusion about the arts.
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Ludwig Minkus La Bayadère
Grand Ballet in Four Acts and Seven Scenes by Sergei Khudekov and Marius Petipa Piano Score
Ludwig Minkus’s score for La Bayadère conjures an exotic India, where a world of rivalry and death contrasts with a realm of dreams and transcendent love, realized in the famous Kingdom of the Shades. Here for the first time is the piano score of the entire ballet.
Ludwig Minkus’s score for La Bayadère conjures an exotic India, where a world of rivalry and death contrasts with a realm of dreams and transcendent love, realized in the famous Kingdom of the Shades. Here for the first time is the piano score of the entire ballet.
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Cesare Pugni
DOCH’ FARAONA La Fille du Pharaon/Pharaoh’s Daughter
An opium dream in an ancient tomb hurls an English Lord into the past. He must save the Pharaoh’s daughter from a rival king and journey through a land of myth and wonder. But can their love survive the harsh light of dawn?
An opium dream in an ancient tomb hurls an English Lord into the past. He must save the Pharaoh’s daughter from a rival king and journey through a land of myth and wonder. But can their love survive the harsh light of dawn?
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Seeing in Spanish
From Don Quixote to Daddy Yankee—22 Essays on Hispanic Visual Cultures
Seeing in Spanish explores visual cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. From Don Quixote to Daddy Yankee, these essays traverse centuries and continents, addressing film, photography, art, graffiti, and digital media from Europe, the Americas, and cyberspace.
Seeing in Spanish explores visual cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. From Don Quixote to Daddy Yankee, these essays traverse centuries and continents, addressing film, photography, art, graffiti, and digital media from Europe, the Americas, and cyberspace.
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Cesare Pugni
Esmeralda and Le Violon du diable
Prolific 19th-century composer Cesare Pugni worked with the era’s greatest choreographers to create renowned ballets. His works include Esmeralda, based on Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris, and Le Violon du diable, a tale of a violinist given irresistible power.
Prolific 19th-century composer Cesare Pugni worked with the era’s greatest choreographers to create renowned ballets. His works include Esmeralda, based on Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris, and Le Violon du diable, a tale of a violinist given irresistible power.
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Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
The Man and His Music
Once regarded as a great figure of music, with an impact as great as Rossini’s, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber is now neglected. The time has come to reassess his life and work, especially his collaboration with master librettist Eugène Scribe, and hear his elegant music again.
Once regarded as a great figure of music, with an impact as great as Rossini’s, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber is now neglected. The time has come to reassess his life and work, especially his collaboration with master librettist Eugène Scribe, and hear his elegant music again.
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The Ballets of Alexander Glazunov
Scènes de Ballet, Raymonda and Les Saisons
Russian composer Alexander Glazunov was a master of classical ballet. Sharing Tchaikovsky’s passion for melody, his scores for Raymonda and The Seasons are inventive and beautifully orchestrated, reflecting a glamorous, glittering world.
Russian composer Alexander Glazunov was a master of classical ballet. Sharing Tchaikovsky’s passion for melody, his scores for Raymonda and The Seasons are inventive and beautifully orchestrated, reflecting a glamorous, glittering world.
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Music on Stage presents papers on opera, the Musical, and performance practice. The collection covers a wide spectrum, from historic works by Wagner to Sondheim, also exploring the gestalt of music and text and the training of the actor-musician.
Music on Stage presents papers on opera, the Musical, and performance practice. The collection covers a wide spectrum, from historic works by Wagner to Sondheim, also exploring the gestalt of music and text and the training of the actor-musician.
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French Romantic Ballets
Jean-Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer, La Sylphide Adolphe-Charles Adam, Giselle and Le Corsaire
This collection presents music from La Sylphide, Giselle, and Le Corsaire—three of the most important scores from the Golden Age of ballet in Paris. Explore tales of fatal love, supernatural spirits, and spectacular drama.
This collection presents music from La Sylphide, Giselle, and Le Corsaire—three of the most important scores from the Golden Age of ballet in Paris. Explore tales of fatal love, supernatural spirits, and spectacular drama.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
The Non-Operatic Texts
Beyond his famous operas, Giacomo Meyerbeer wrote extensively for the voice in other genres. This volume presents the texts for his non-operatic stage works, occasional public pieces, sacred music, and songs, in the original and in English translation.
Beyond his famous operas, Giacomo Meyerbeer wrote extensively for the voice in other genres. This volume presents the texts for his non-operatic stage works, occasional public pieces, sacred music, and songs, in the original and in English translation.
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Romualdo Marenco
Excelsior and Sport
In Manzotti's spectacular allegorical ballet Excelsior, the rise of human civilization is an embittered struggle between Light and Darkness. As inventions triumph, Marenco’s exhilarating music celebrates an apotheosis of light, progress, and peace.
In Manzotti’s spectacular allegorical ballet Excelsior, the rise of human civilization is an embittered struggle between Light and Darkness. As inventions triumph, Marenco’s exhilarating music celebrates an apotheosis of light, progress, and peace.
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Cesare Pugni
Music from Five Ballets Ondine Esmeralda Pas de Quatre Catarina, ou La Fille du bandit Théolinda, ou Le Lutin de la vallée
Cesare Pugni (1802–70) worked with choreographers Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa in Paris, London, and St Petersburg, creating renowned 19th-century ballets. Extremely prolific, he composed over 300 works, delighting audiences with his attractive melodies.
Cesare Pugni (1802–70) worked with choreographers Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa in Paris, London, and St Petersburg, creating renowned 19th-century ballets. Extremely prolific, he composed over 300 works, delighting audiences with his attractive melodies.
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Musicians and dancers draw upon relationships between sound and movement. Sound, Music and the Moving-Thinking Body brings together diverse topics on the subject, raising issues concerning the collaborative aspects of creating and performing new work.
Musicians and dancers draw upon relationships between sound and movement. Sound, Music and the Moving-Thinking Body brings together diverse topics on the subject, raising issues concerning the collaborative aspects of creating and performing new work.
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Women in the Arts
Eccentric Essays in Music, Visual Arts and Literature
This pioneering collection of essays is a multi-disciplined celebration of women creators. It presents an interdisciplinary emphasis on the long-neglected contributions of women to music, visual arts, and literature, and the obstacles they overcame.
This pioneering collection of essays is a multi-disciplined celebration of women creators. It presents an interdisciplinary emphasis on the long-neglected contributions of women to music, visual arts, and literature, and the obstacles they overcame.
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Though known as a master of opéra-comique, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber was crucial to the development of Romantic ballet. His grand operas featured long danced interludes, and his music later inspired ballets by choreographers like Frederick Ashton.
Though known as a master of opéra-comique, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber was crucial to the development of Romantic ballet. His grand operas featured long danced interludes, and his music later inspired ballets by choreographers like Frederick Ashton.
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