Broschiertes Buch

Melodramatic Voices

Understanding Music Drama

Herausgeber: Hibberd, Sarah

Beschreibung

The genre of mélodrame à grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. The premise of this volume is the idea that the melodramatic aesthetic is central to our understanding of nineteenth-century music drama, broadly defined as spoken plays with music, operas and other hybrid genres that combine music with text and/or image.

Autor

Sarah Hibberd is Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Nottingham. Her research interests focus primarily on nineteenth-century French opera, and other forms of music theatre including melodrama, pantomime and ballet, and she has published widely on these topics, including French Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination (2009). Current projects include an examination of the cataclysmic denouements of works produced in Paris 1789-1859, and the exchanges and tensions between art, theatre and opera in nineteenth-century France.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781138274013
• ISBN-10: 1138274011
• Artikelnr.: 57044829