Jeffrey Langford

Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre

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Produktbeschreibung

Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre offers an accessible and chronological survey of opera. Beginning in the 16th century, each chapter hones its focus on a representative opera and composer, and provides discussion on historical and political context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781032459783
• ISBN-10: 1032459786
• Artikelnr.: 70372476

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Langford is Associate Dean for Doctoral Studies at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, NY. He is author of A History of the Symphony (Routledge, 2019) and Evenings at the Opera (Amadeus Press, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

1 First steps toward a new genre
2 Claudio Monteverdi, the first genius
3 The rise of Italian opera seria
4 French opera of the 17th and 18th centuries
5 The birth of comic opera
6 Gioachino Rossini, a bridge to the 19th century
7 Gaetano Donizetti, a master of Italian Romantic opera
8 Giuseppe Verdi, Part I: Italian opera in revolution
9 The rise of German Romantic opera
10 Hector Berlioz and 19th-century French grand opera
11 Charles Gounod and French opéra lyrique
12 Russian opera, Part I: Modest Mussorgsky and the nationalist style
13 Russian opera, Part II: Pyotr (Peter) Ilyich Tchaikovsky andthe cosmopolitan style
14 Giuseppe Verdi, Part II: The final years
15 Bizet, Puccini, and the rise of verismo opera
16 Richard Strauss and the changing styles of symphonic opera
17 Claude Debussy and Impressionism in opera
18 Alban Berg and the problem of atonal opera
19 Béla Bartók, a 20th-century nationalist
20 Benjamin Britten and 20th-century operatic conservatism
21 Igor Stravinsky and neoclassical opera
22 Minimalist opera
23 Opera today: A sample