Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hibberd, Sarah

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The genre of mélodrame à grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. The premise of this volume is the idea that the melodramatic aesthetic is central to our understanding of nineteenth-century music drama, broadly defined as spoken plays with music, operas and other hybrid genres that combine music with text and/or image.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317097921
• Artikelnr.: 49350598

Autorenporträt

Sarah Hibberd is Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Nottingham. Her research interests focus primarily on nineteenth-century French opera, and other forms of music theatre including melodrama, pantomime and ballet, and she has published widely on these topics, including French Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination (2009). Current projects include an examination of the cataclysmic denouements of works produced in Paris 1789-1859, and the exchanges and tensions between art, theatre and opera in nineteenth-century France.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I: Melodrama as Genre
1: Music in Pixérécourt's Early Melodramas
2: Operatic or Theatrical? Orchestral Framings of the Voice in the Melodrama Sept heures (1829)
3: Reconstructing Greek Drama: Saint-Saëns and the Melodramatic Ideal
4: In a Woman's Voice: Musical Recitation and the Feminization of American Melodrama 1
II: Melodrama on the Operatic Stage
5: 'Si L'Orchestre seul chantait': Melodramatic Voices in Chelard's Macbeth (1827 )
6: Melodramatic Spectacle on the English Operatic Stage
7: Janá?ek and Melodrama
8: Dismembering 'Expectations': The Modernization of Monodrama in Fin-de-siècle Theatrical Arts
9: Opera for the People: Melodrama in Hugo Herrmann's Vasantasena (1930) 1
III: Melodramatic Transformations
10: Berlioz's 'Roméo au tombeau': Melodrama of the Mind
11: Be it [N]ever so Humble? The Narrating Voice in the Underscore to The Wizard of Oz (MGM, 1939)
12: The Voice-Over as 'Melodramatic Voice'
13: Dismembering the Musical Voice: Mahler, Melodrama and Dracula from Stage to Screen 1