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Audience Experience and Contemporary Classical Music: Negotiating the Experimental and the Accessible in a High Art Subculture

Audience Experience and Contemporary Classical Music:...

Author: Gina Emerson
ISBN: 9780367696818
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book responds to recent debates on cultural participation and the relevancy of music composed today with the...  Read More >>

Old Fort Garland

Old Fort Garland

Author: Bernard Shaw
ISBN: 9789357397049
Format: Book
$32.82

The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout...  Read More >>

L'Opera Jeune Public

L'Opera Jeune Public

Author: Theresa Schmitz
ISBN: 9782711630707
Format: Paperback
$108.24

"Jeune pousse du monde lyrique l'opera jeune public occupe une place grandissante dans la programmation des maisons...  Read More >>

Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai: Transpositions of a 'Japanese Tragedy'

Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai: Transpositions of...

Author: Arthur Groos (Cornell University, New York)
ISBN: 9781009250672
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Emphasizing the conflicted transcultural encounter portrayed in Madama Butterfly, this book examines nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Opera and the Politics of Tragedy: A Mozartean Museum

Opera and the Politics of Tragedy: A Mozartean Museum...

Author: Professor Katharina Clausius
ISBN: 9781648250491
Format: Hardback
$290.40

"A curated collection of Enlightenment operas, paintings, and literary works that were all marked by the ""Telemacomania""...  Read More >>

Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces

Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces

Author: Norman Lebrecht
ISBN: 9780861544530
Format: Hardback
$44.99

Beethoven’s life and legacy in 100 recordings  Read More >>

Kickstarting Italian Opera in the Andes: The 1840s and the First Opera Companies

Kickstarting Italian Opera in the Andes: The 1840s and...

Author: José Manuel Izquierdo König (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
ISBN: 9781009223058
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element focuses on opera as a product that both challenged and was challenged in the Andes by other forms of...  Read More >>

Die Oper von Gluck bis Wagner

Die Oper von Gluck bis Wagner

Author: Karl Maria Klob
ISBN: 9783965065581
Format: Paperback
$108.24

"Der Dramatiker und Prosaiker Karl Maria Klob (1873 - 1932) interessierte sich sehr für Musikgeschichte und schrieb...  Read More >>

A Second Book of Operas

A Second Book of Operas

Author: Henry Edward Krehbiel
ISBN: 9789359325088
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Includes Biblical Operas, Bible Stories in Opera and Oratorio, Rubenstein, Samson and Dalila, and many more....  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera

The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera...

Author: Jacqueline Waeber (Duke University, North Carolina)
ISBN: 9780521530460
Format: Paperback
$59.49

This Companion offers an in-depth introduction to the early history of opera by focusing on its foundational century....  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera

The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera...

Author: Jacqueline Waeber (Duke University, North Carolina)
ISBN: 9780521823593
Format: Hardback
$194.04

This Companion offers an in-depth introduction to the early history of opera by focusing on its foundational century....  Read More >>

The Musical Language of Italian Opera, 1813-1859

The Musical Language of Italian Opera, 1813-1859

Author: William Rothstein (Professor of Music Theory, Professor of Music Theory, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
ISBN: 9780197609682
Format: Hardback
$254.00

The Musical Language of Italian Opera, 1813-1859 examines operatic music by five Italian composers--Rossini, Bellini,...  Read More >>

Liyuanxi - Chinese 'Pear Garden Theatre'

Liyuanxi - Chinese 'Pear Garden Theatre'

Author: Josh Stenberg (University of Sydney, Australia) ,  Simon Shepherd (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350157392
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This book offers a stimulating introduction to the Hokkien music drama known as liyuanxi (‘pear garden theatre’),...  Read More >>

T�cnica Vocal

T�cnica Vocal

Author: Stadler Marcelo
ISBN: 9786553928862
Format: Paperback
$62.62

Para aquele que quer aprender a cantar com um n�vel profissional, encontrar� aqui um excelente material com conhecimento...  Read More >>

The Haggadah

The Haggadah

Author: Elizabeth Swados
ISBN: 9780573681066
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Texts from Messenger of God, by Elie Wiesel, and other sources.  Read More >>

The Beginner’s Guide to Opera Stage Management: Gathering the Tools You Need to Work in Opera

The Beginner’s Guide to Opera Stage Management: Gathering...

Author: Danielle Ranno
ISBN: 9780367497927
Format: Paperback
$62.99

The Beginner’s Guide to Opera Stage Management is the first book to cover theatrical stage management practices...  Read More >>

The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart's Vienna

The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart's Vienna

Author: Dorothea Link
ISBN: 9780252044649
Format: Hardback
$285.00

Dorothea Link examines singers’ voices and casting practices in late eighteenth-century Italian opera as exemplified...  Read More >>

La responsabilità civile dell'insegnante di canto: La risposta dell'ordinamento al danno d'origine fonotraumatica nel vocal training

La responsabilità civile dell'insegnante di canto: La...

Author: Graziano D'Urso
ISBN: 9781471634727
Format: Hardback
$91.45

Studio relativo alle conseguenze giuscivilistiche del danno biologico colposo (da imperizia) che il vocal trainer...  Read More >>

Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Roberta Montemorra Marvin (University of Massachusetts, USA)
ISBN: 9781032168869
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic ""experiences"" outside...  Read More >>

The Lyric Myth of Voice: Civilizing Song in Enlightenment Italy

The Lyric Myth of Voice: Civilizing Song in Enlightenment...

Author: Jessica Gabriel Peritz
ISBN: 9780520380790
Format: Hardback
$107.95

"How did ""voice"" become a metaphor for selfhood in the Western imagination? The Lyric Myth of Voice situates the...  Read More >>

Richard Strauss in Context

Richard Strauss in Context

Author: Morten Kristiansen ,  Joseph E. Jones
ISBN: 9781108434461
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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