Music and the theater : an introduction to opera / [by] Reinhard G. Pauly.
| Author/creator | Pauly, Reinhard G. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, Inc., ©1970. |
| Description | xiv, 462 pages : illustrations, music, portraits ; 26 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part one: Opera as a special kind of drama. The impact of music drama. Musical drama and "realism" ; Music as a regulating force ; The prompter ; The libretto ; Musical requirements: composing an opera -- Opera production. Choosing a cast ; Operatic singing ; Operatic acting ; Chorus, orchestra, ballet ; Operatic conducting ; The stage director ; Stage design ; Rehearsing an opera ; Opera performance conventions ; The strengths of opera -- Part two: The changing styles in musical drama. Music and drama before 1750. Ancient Greece ; Middle ages and Renaissance ; Early Baroque opera ; Monteverdi's Orfeo ; Later Baroque opera ; Dramatic and musical style ; Opera seria and opera buffa ; Vigorous operatic life in Italy ; Performance practices ; Opera in France ; Opera in England ; Purcell's Dido and Aeneas ; Handel's operas ; Julius Caesar -- Classic opera. Gluck and operatic reform ; Orfeo ed Euridice ; Mozart's operas ; Don Giovanni ; The Magic Flute ; Haydn's operas -- Early nineteenth-century opera. Political, social, and musical changes ; Beethoven's Fidelio ; Rossini's The barber of Seville ; Early Romanticism and opera ; Weber's Der Freischütz -- Mid-nineteenth-century opera. Romantic opera in Italy ; Bellini and Donizetti ; France ; Meyerbeer and grand opera ; Nationalism and realism ; Wagner's The Flying Dutchman ; Verdi's La Traviata -- Wagnerian music drama. Wagner's theories and practices ; The "total work of art" ; Bayreuth ; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg -- The later nineteenth century. Realism and naturalism ; Bizet's Carmen ; Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov ; Verdi's Falstaff ; Opera in nineteenth-century America -- Naturalism in musical drama: verismo. Characteristics of verismo ; Veristic operas ; Puccini's Tosca -- Impressionism and musical drama. Impressionism in painting ; Symbolism in literature: Mallarmé ; Impressionism in music ; Debussy's Pelléas and Mélisande -- Two operas by Richard Strauss. The tone poems as preparation for the operas ; Salome ; Der Rosenkavalier -- Expressionism and the literary climate of the twenties. Germany after the First World War ; Expressionism in painting ; Berg's Wozzeck -- New concepts of staging. Away from realism ; Electricity and imaginative lighting ; Symbolism and surrealism ; Felsenstein and Musiktheater -- Neoclassic opera. Neoclassic or Neo-Baroque? ; Opera's affinity for classical subjects ; Stravinsky and Neoclassicism ; The Rake's Progress -- Two American operas. The appreciation of Americana ; American opera composers ; Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe ; Menotti's operas ; The Consul -- Motion pictures and television. Music in the age of the silent film ; Is film music background music? ; Scriptwriter, director, and composer ; The opera film ; Opera and television -- The place of opera in modern society. Europe ; Effects of World War II ; The star system in the jet age ; America ; Private vs. public support ; Changing audiences ; Opera in English ; Opera workshops ; Civic opera groups ; Summer opera ; Opera on records ; A look to the future -- Glossary. |
| Abstract | This work is intended for the newcomer to opera. There are analyses of specific works such as: Orfeo, The Magic Flute, Barber of Seville, Flying Dutchman, La Traviata, Die Meisterdsinger von Nurnberg, Boris Godunov, Tosca, Pelleas et Melisande, Salome, Rosenkavlier, Wozzeck, Rake's Progress, and Ballad of Baby Doe. |
| Local note | Little-76725--305131022037R |
| LCCN | 77098457 |
| ISBN | 0136070027 |
| ISBN | 9780136070023 |
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