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Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York.
Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre-accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lady Audley's Secret, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, as well as historical romances by Shakespeare and Schiller-than th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Forging a New Musico-Dramatic Genre; 1. The Eighteenth-Century Roots of Melos; 2. The Rise of Melodrama in the Age of Revolution; 3. The Early Popular Drama in the Public Theatres; Part Two: Propagating the Popular Drama; 4. The Anglo-American Melodrama and Its Music; 5. Victorian Theatre Bands and Their Leaders; 6. The Craft of Melos in Rehearsal and Performance; 7. Music, Suspense, and the Sensation Drama; Part Three: Transforming the Popular Drama; 8. Melos in Crisis; 9. Nationalism, "Prestige Music," and Irving's Lyceum.
- 10. Melodrama and Glamour at Century's EndConclusion. The Legacy of Melos; Notes; Index.