Search Results - "operetta"

Sigmund Romberg by Everett, William A., 1962-

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Sigmund Romberg by Everett, William A., 1962-

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China and the West : Music, Representation, and Reception /

Table of Contents: “…Eastern fantasies on Western stages : Chinese-themed operettas and musical comedies in turn-of-the-last-century London and New York /…”
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China and the West : Music, Representation, and Reception /

Table of Contents: “…Eastern fantasies on Western stages : Chinese-themed operettas and musical comedies in turn-of-the-last-century London and New York /…”
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Hokum! : The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture / by King, Rob, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…"The cuckoo school of humor" : humor and metropolitan culture in 1920s America -- "The stigma of slapstick" : the short-subject industry and its imagined public -- "The spice of the program" : educational pictures and the small-town audience -- "I want music everywhere" : music, operetta, and cultural hierarchy at the Hal Roach Studios -- "From the archives of Keystone memory" : slapstick and re-membrance at Columbia Pictures' short-subjects department -- Coda : when comedy was king.…”
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Hokum! : The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture / by King, Rob, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…"The cuckoo school of humor" : humor and metropolitan culture in 1920s America -- "The stigma of slapstick" : the short-subject industry and its imagined public -- "The spice of the program" : educational pictures and the small-town audience -- "I want music everywhere" : music, operetta, and cultural hierarchy at the Hal Roach Studios -- "From the archives of Keystone memory" : slapstick and re-membrance at Columbia Pictures' short-subjects department -- Coda : when comedy was king.…”
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Die Fledermaus The bat / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Die Fledermaus The bat / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Candide by Fisher, Burton D.

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Candide by Fisher, Burton D.

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Hitchcock's music by Sullivan, Jack, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Overture -- The music starts -- Waltzes from Vienna : Hitchcock's forgotten operetta -- The man who knew too much : storm clouds over Royal Albert Hall -- Musical minimalism : British Hitchcock -- Rebecca : music to raise the dead -- Waltzing into danger -- Sounds of war -- Spellbound : theremins and phallic frescoes -- Notorious : bright sambas, dark secrets -- The paradine case : the unhappy finale of Hitchcock and Selznick -- Hitchcock in a different key : the post-Selznick experiments -- The band played on : a Tiomkin trio -- Rear window : the redemptive power of popular music -- Lethal laughter : Hitchcock's fifties comedies -- The man who knew too much : Doris Day versus the London Symphony -- The wrong man : music from the dark side of the moon -- Sing along with Hitch : music for television -- Vertigo : the music of longing and loss -- North by northwest : fandango on the rocks -- Psycho : the music of terror -- The birds : aviary apocalypse -- The music ends : Hitchcock fires Herrmann -- Topaz : the music is back -- Frenzy : out with Mancini, hold the Bach -- Family plot : Hitchcock's exuberant finale -- Finale : Hitchcock as maestro.…”
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Hitchcock's music by Sullivan, Jack, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Overture -- The music starts -- Waltzes from Vienna : Hitchcock's forgotten operetta -- The man who knew too much : storm clouds over Royal Albert Hall -- Musical minimalism : British Hitchcock -- Rebecca : music to raise the dead -- Waltzing into danger -- Sounds of war -- Spellbound : theremins and phallic frescoes -- Notorious : bright sambas, dark secrets -- The paradine case : the unhappy finale of Hitchcock and Selznick -- Hitchcock in a different key : the post-Selznick experiments -- The band played on : a Tiomkin trio -- Rear window : the redemptive power of popular music -- Lethal laughter : Hitchcock's fifties comedies -- The man who knew too much : Doris Day versus the London Symphony -- The wrong man : music from the dark side of the moon -- Sing along with Hitch : music for television -- Vertigo : the music of longing and loss -- North by northwest : fandango on the rocks -- Psycho : the music of terror -- The birds : aviary apocalypse -- The music ends : Hitchcock fires Herrmann -- Topaz : the music is back -- Frenzy : out with Mancini, hold the Bach -- Family plot : Hitchcock's exuberant finale -- Finale : Hitchcock as maestro.…”
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The American musical and the performance of personal identity by Knapp, Raymond

Table of Contents: “…The Viennese connection : Franz Lehár and American operetta (The merry widow (1907). Naughty Marietta (1910). …”
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The American musical and the performance of personal identity by Knapp, Raymond

Table of Contents: “…The Viennese connection : Franz Lehár and American operetta (The merry widow (1907). Naughty Marietta (1910). …”
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Making Light : Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism / by Knapp, Raymond

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Making Light : Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism / by Knapp, Raymond

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