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Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage.
Opera was invented at the end of the sixteenth century in imitation of the supposed style of delivery of ancient Greek tragedy, and, since then, operas based on Greek drama have been among the most important in the repertoire. This collection of essays by leading authorities in the fields of Classic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2010.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Precursors, precedents, pretexts : the institutions of Greco-Roman theatre and the development of European opera / Roger Savage
- Greek tragedy and opera : notes on a marriage manqué / Michele Napolitano
- Incidental music and the revival of Greek tragedy from the Italian Renaissance to German Romanticism / Jason Geary
- Phaedra's handmaiden : tragedy as comedy and spectacle in seventeenth-century opera / Wendy Heller
- Dance in Lully's Alceste / Jennifer Thorp
- The ghost of Alcestis / Amy Wygant
- The rise and fall of Andromache on the operatic stage, 1660s-1820s / Suzana Ograjenšek
- Opera librettos and Greek tragedy in eighteenth-century Venice : the case of Agostino Piovene / Robert C. Ketterer
- Ancient tragedy in opera, and the operatic debut of Oedipus the King (Munich, 1729) / Reinhard Strohm
- Establishing a text, securing a reputation : Metastasio's use of Aristotle / Michael Burden
- The gods out of the machine
- and their comeback / Bruno Forment
- Who killed Gluck? / Simon Goldhill
- The metamorphosis of a Greek comedy and its protagonist : some musical versions of Aristophanes' Lysistrata / Simone Beta
- Taneyev's Oresteia / Anastasia Belina and Michael Ewans
- Crossings of experimental music and Greek tragedy / Christian Wolff
- The action drama and the still life : Enescu, Stravinsky, and Oedipus / Stephen Walsh
- Sing evohe! : three twentieth-century operatic versions of Euripides' Bacchae / Robert Cowan
- Re-staging the Welttheater : a critical view of Carl Orff's Antigonae and Oedipus der Tyrann / Nicholas Attfield
- "Batter the doom drum" : the music for Peter Hall's Oresteia and other productions of Greek tragedy by Harrison Birtwistle and Judith Weir / David Beard.