The melodramatic moment : music and theatrical culture, 1790-1820 /

We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look - from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein?s creation, and from Louise Brooks?s exaggerated acting in Pandora?s Box to the vicissitudes endlessly reshaping the life of a brooding Don Draper. This anth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hambridge, Katherine (Editor ), Hicks, Jonathan, 1984- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Temas:
1700-1899
Melodrama > History and criticism.
Music > 19th century > History and criticism.
Music > 18th century > History and criticism.
Mélodrame > Histoire et critique.
Musique > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Musique > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
Melodrama.
Music.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / James Chandler
  • The melodramatic moment, 1790-1820 / Katherine Hambridge, Jonathan Hicks
  • Forms and themes of early melodrama / Ellen Lockhart
  • Continental trouble: the nationality of melodrama and the national stage in early nineteenth-century Britain / Diego Saglia
  • Between the sacred and the profane: French Biblical melodrama in Vienna / Barbara Babic
  • Scenography, "spéculomanie" and soundscape: Pixerécourt's La Citerne / Sarah Hibberd
  • Gesture, composition and performance in 18th-century German melodrama: Goez's 160 "passionate" illustrations to Winters's Lenardo und Blandine / Thomas Betzwieser
  • Music and subterranean space in La Citerne / Jens Hesselager
  • The first English melodrama: Thomas Holcroft's translation of Pixerécourt / George Taylor
  • Benevolent machinery: techniques of sympathy in early German melodrama / Matthew Head
  • Vienna, 18 October 1814: urban space and public memory in the Napoleonic "occasional melodrama" / Nicholas Mathew
  • Afterword / Jacqueline Waeber.

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