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  • The Real Tales of Hoffmann

    Origin, History, and Restoration of an Operatic Masterpiece

    de Michael Kaye, Vincent Giroud ...
    Of all operas in the standard repertory, none has had a more complicated genesis and textual history than Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann. Based on a highly successful 1851 play inspired by the short stories by the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann, the work occupied the last decade of Offenbach’s life. When he died in October 1880, the work was being rehearsed at the Opéra-Comique. At once cut ... Leer más

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  • Nicolas Nabokov

    A Life in Freedom and Music

    de Vincent Giroud ...
    Composer, cultural diplomat, and man about town, Nicolas Nabokov (1903-78) counted among his intimate friends everyone from Igor Stravinsky to George Kennan. While today he is overshadowed by his more famous cousin Vladimir, Nicolas Nabokov was during his lifetime an outstanding and far-sighted player in international cultural exchanges during the Cold War and admired by some of the most ... Leer más

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  • French Opera: A Short History

    de Vincent Giroud ...

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  • Les Extravagants. Scènes de la vie de bohème cosmopolite

    de Paul Morand, Vincent Giroud ...
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    Voici le tout premier roman de Paul Morand, écrit en 1910-1911, et inédit jusqu'en 1986. On pensait que le manuscrit de cette œuvre de jeunesse avait été détruit par l'auteur. Il a été retrouvé en 1978 chez un libraire de Los Angeles, et acquis par la bibliothèque de l'Université Yale. À vingt-deux ans, l'auteur n'a pas encore trouvé son style, bref, ironique, détaché. C'est du Morand d'avant ... Leer más

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  • Puccini's La Bohème

    A Short Guide to a Great Opera

    de Michael Steen ...
    Series series Great Operas
    Puccini's obsession with detail ensured the success of La Bohème, his opera about the impoverished 'artistes' in Paris in the 1830s. Soon after its première, people started calling their baby daughters Mimi. The story of this seamstress, her hectic but fraught love affair with the poet Rodolfo and her tragic death from consumption (tuberculosis), never fail to touch the audience. Che gelida manina ... Leer más

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  • Mozart's The Magic Flute

    A Short Guide to a Great Opera

    de Michael Steen ...
    Series series Great Operas
    Even Salieri, the notorious villain of Peter Shaffer's drama Amadeus, admired Mozart's comic opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), which was premièred in Vienna a few weeks before Mozart's death in December 1791. Though sometimes enjoyed as a children's opera, this is not a pantomime: rooted in Freemasonry, the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason, it promotes the ideals of progress, virtue, ... Leer más

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  • Handel's Bestiary

    In Search of Animals in Handel's Operas

    de Donna Leon ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author delivers "a real tour de force" celebrating the fauna in Handel's operas—with original illustrations by Michael Sowa ( News—Austria).When acclaimed novelist Donna Leon is not conjuring up tales of crime and corruption in Venice—or appreciating its delicious cuisine—she revels in music. And for Leon, that usually means the work of her favorite composer, George ... Leer más

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  • Puccini: libretti of 9 operas

    de Giacomo Puccini ...
    This file includes libretti of: Edgar, Gianni Schicchi, Il Tabarro, La Bohème, Manon Lescaut, Suor Angelica, Tosca, Turandot, and Villi, in the original Italian. According to Wikipedia: "Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most ... Leer más

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  • A Geometry of Music

    Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice

    de Dmitri Tymoczko ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Music Theory
    How is the Beatles' "Help!" similar to Stravinsky's "Dance of the Adolescents?" How does Radiohead's "Just" relate to the improvisations of Bill Evans? And how do Chopin's works exploit the non-Euclidean geometry of musical chords? In this groundbreaking work, author Dmitri Tymoczko describes a new framework for thinking about music that emphasizes the commonalities among styles from medieval ... Leer más

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  • The Opera, a sketch of the development of opera, with full descriptions of all works in the modern repertory

    de R. A. Streatfeild ...
    "If Music be, among the arts, 'Heaven's youngest-teemed star', the latest of the art-forms she herself has brought forth is unquestionably Opera. Three hundred years does not at first seem a very short time, but it is not long when it covers the whole period of the inception, development, and what certainly looks like the decadence, of an important branch of man's artistic industry. The art of ... Leer más

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  • Composing Electronic Music

    A New Aesthetic

    de Curtis Roads ...
    Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and listeners. Opening the door to an unlimited universe of sound, it engages spatialization as an integral aspect of composition and focuses on sound transformation as a core structural strategy. In this new domain, pitch occurs as a flowing and ephemeral substance that can be bent, modulated, or dissolved into noise ... Leer más

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  • Verdi With a Vengeance

    An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King of Opera

    de William Berger ...
    Everything you could possibly know about Verdi and his operas, from the brilliant and humorous author of Wagner Without Fear.If you want to know why La traviata was actually a flop at its premiere in 1853, it's in here. If you want to know why claiming to have heard Bjorling's Chicago performance of Il trovatore is the classic opera fan faux pas, it's in here. Even if you just want to know how to ... Leer más

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