| Description |
xxviii, 501 pages : illustration, music ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Ashgate library of essays in opera studies ; [v. 5]
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Ashgate library of essays in opera studies ; v. 5.
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| Note |
Essays and articles reprinted from a variety of sources. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiv-xxviii) index. |
| Contents |
pt I. German opera in the early 19th century -- The arias of Marzelline : Beethoven as a composer of opera / Philip Gossett -- New light(s) on Weber's Wolf's Glen scene / Anthony Newcomb -- Richard Wagner and Weber's Euryanthe / Michael C. Tusa -- -- pt. II. Wagner -- The Ring and the conditions of interpretation : Wagner's writing, 1848 to 1852 / James Treadwell -- "...wie ein rother Faden" : on the origins of leitmotif as critical construct and musical practice / Thomas Grey -- The structure of the Ring and its evolution / Robert Bailey -- Dramatic recapitulation in Wagner's Götterdämmerung / William Kinderman -- Wagner, "on modulation," and Tristan / Carolyn Abbate -- Death drive : Eros and Thanatos in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde / Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon -- Constructing Nuremberg : typological and proleptic communities in Die Meistersinger / Arthur Groos -- Amfortas's prayer to Titurel and the role of D in Parsifal : the tonal spaces of the drama and the enharmonic C-flat/B / David Lewin -- Strange love, or, how we learned to stop worrying and love Wagner's Parsifal / John Deathridge -- -- pt. III. Russian opera -- On Ruslan and Russianness / Marina Frolova-Walker -- Mussorgsky's Boris on the stage of the Maryinsky Theater : a chronicle of the first production / Robert William Oldani -- Mussorgsky's libretti on historical themes : from the two Borises to Khovanshchina / Caryl Emerson -- The semiotics of symmetry, or, Rimsky-Korsakov's operatic history lesson / Simon Morrison -- -- pt. IV. Strauss and Janáček -- Strauss and the pervert / Sandra L. Gilman -- Fin-de-siècle fantasies : Elektra and the culture of supremacism / Lawrence Kramer -- Janáček's speech-melody theory in concept and practice / Paul Wingfield -- Evasive realism : narrative construction in Dostoyevsky's and Janáček's From the house of the dead / Geoffrey Chew and Robert Vilain. |
| Subject |
Opera -- Europe, Central -- 19th century.
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Opera. |
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Central Europe. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Opera -- Europe, Eastern -- 19th century.
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Eastern Europe. |
| Added Author |
Tusa, Michael Charles.
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| ISBN |
9780754629061 hardback |
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0754629066 hardback |
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