| Description |
xx, 291 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera
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Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Music in Pixérécourt's early melodramas / Katherine Astbury -- Operatic or theatrical? Orchestral framings of the voice in the melodrama Sept heures (1829) / Jens Hesselager -- Reconstructing Greek drama: Saint-Saëns and the melodramatic ideal / Elinor Olin -- In a woman's voice: musical recitation and the feminization of American melodrama / Marian Wilson Kimber -- 'Si l'orchestre seul chantait' : Melodramatic voices in Chelard's Macbeth (1827) / Sarah Hibberd -- Melodramatic spectacle on the English operatic stage / Philip Carli -- Janáček and melodrama / John Tyrrell -- Dismembering 'expectations': the modernization of monodrama in Fin-de-siècle theatrical arts / Jessica Payette -- Opera for the people: melodrama in Hugo Herrmann's Vasantasena (1930) / Nanette Nielsen -- Berlioz's 'Roméo au tombeau': melodrama of the mind / Violaine Anger -- Be it [n]ever so humble? The narrating voice in the underscore to the Wizard of Oz (MGM, 1939) / Fiona Ford -- The voice-over as 'melodramatic voice' / Jacqeline Waeber -- Dismembering the musical voice: Mahler, melodrama and Dracula from stage to screen / Jeremy Barham. |
| Subject |
Melodrama -- History and criticism.
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Melodrama. |
| Added Author |
Hibberd, Sarah.
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| ISBN |
9781409400820 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1409400824 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9781409433989 ebook |
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1409433986 ebook |
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