Verdi and the French aesthetic verse, stanza, and melody in nineteenth-century opera / by Giger, Andreas, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Versification and melodic aesthetics. Rhythm and stanza in French and Italian librettos ; French and Italian melodic aesthetics and practice ca. 1830-1870 ; Episode: Design, middleground rhythm, and phrase -- French melody in Verdi's operas. …”
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Aesthetic technologies of modernity, subjectivity, and nature : opera, orchestra, phonograph, film / by Leppert, Richard D.

Table of Contents: “…The civilizing process : music and the aesthetics of time-space relations in The Girl of the golden West -- Opera, aesthetic violence, and the imposition of modernity : Fitzcarraldo -- Caruso, phonography, and operatic fidelities : regimes of music listening, 1904-1929 -- Aesthetic meanderings of the sonic psyche : three operas, two notes, and one ending at the boundary of the Great Divide -- Sound, subjectivity, and death : Days of heaven (promesse du bonheur) -- Conclusion : acoustic invocations of crisis and hope.…”
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Crisis of the opera? : a study of musical hermeneutics / by Piso, Jon

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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Beijing opera costumes the visual communication of character and culture / by Bonds, Alexandra B., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The world of traditional Jingju -- The world of traditional Jingju costumes -- The form and historical roots of costumes -- The symbolism and application of color -- The aesthetics and meanings of the embroidered imagery -- The costume compendium -- Makeup, hair and headdresses -- Dressing techniques and costume plots.…”
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Carl Maria von Weber and the search for a German opera by Meyer, Stephen C., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Inventing German opera -- The native and the foreign : models for the German opera -- Der Freischütz and the character of the nation -- Euryanthe : reconfiguration and transformation -- Epilogue : Institutions, aesthetics, and genre after Weber's death -- Appendices. …”
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