Search Results - Modernism (music)

Middlebrow Modernism : Britten’s Operas and the Great Divide / by Chowrimootoo, Christopher, 1985-

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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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Mamontov's Private Opera the search for modernism in Russian theater / by Haldey, Olga, 1972-

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Center Stage : Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe / by Ther, Philipp

Table of Contents: “…Constructing National Culture; 3. Europeanization and Musical Modernism; Part Three: The Polish Theater in Lemberg; 4. …”
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Rape at the Opera : Staging Sexual Violence / by Cormier, Margaret

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On opera by Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen

Table of Contents: “…-- Don Giovanni as an idea -- Passion and cynicism : remarks on Così fan tutte -- Rather red than black : Verdi, Don Carlos and the passion for freedom -- Tristan and time -- The elusiveness of pessimism : responding to the Ring -- Wagner and the transcendence of politics -- L'envers des destinées : remarks on Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande -- Manifest artifice : the ingenuity of Puccini -- Comments on Opera and ideas : from Mozart to Strauss / by Paul Robinson -- The Marriage and the Flute : Tippett and Mozart -- Janáček's modernism : doing less with more in music and philosophy -- Authenticity and re-creation : musicology, performance and production -- Naïve and sentimental opera lovers.…”
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