Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre
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Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre

  1. 210 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre

About this book

Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre offers an accessible and chronological survey of opera.

Beginning in the 16th century, each chapter hones its focus on a representative opera and composer, and provides discussion on historical and political context. With further reading lists, key term definitions, and composer biographies to support learning, this book covers the fundamental elements of the genre, including: subject matter, musical structure, aria and ensemble forms, singing styles, orchestra, and the structure of the libretto. The book will also help readers develop an appreciation of opera as a form of musical entertainment, which, despite seemingly insurmountable financial, philosophical, and artistic hurdles, has overcome the "impossible" to become one of the most popular and thrilling types of music heard on stage today.

Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre is an approachable undergraduate textbook for students of opera and survey courses.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032459783
eBook ISBN
9781040127568
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Preface
  8. 1 First steps toward a new genre
  9. 2 Claudio Monteverdi, the first genius
  10. 3 The rise of Italian opera seria
  11. 4 French opera of the 17th and 18th centuries
  12. 5 The birth of comic opera
  13. 6 Gioachino Rossini, a bridge to the 19th century
  14. 7 Gaetano Donizetti, a master of Italian Romantic opera
  15. 8 Giuseppe Verdi, Part I: Italian opera in revolution
  16. 9 The rise of German Romantic opera
  17. 10 Hector Berlioz and 19th-century French grand opera
  18. 11 Charles Gounod and French opéra lyrique
  19. 12 Russian opera, Part I: Modest Mussorgsky and the nationalist style
  20. 13 Russian opera, Part II: Pyotr (Peter) Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the cosmopolitan style
  21. 14 Giuseppe Verdi, Part II: The final years
  22. 15 Bizet, Puccini, and the rise of verismo opera
  23. 16 Richard Strauss and the changing styles of symphonic opera
  24. 17 Claude Debussy and Impressionism in opera
  25. 18 Alban Berg and the problem of atonal opera
  26. 19 Béla Bartók, a 20th-century nationalist
  27. 20 Benjamin Britten and 20th-century operatic conservatism
  28. 21 Igor Stravinsky and neoclassical opera
  29. 22 Minimalist opera
  30. 23 Opera today: A sample
  31. Index