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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Italian opera"”.
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"Trash Music": Valuing Nineteenth-century Italian Opera Fantasias for Woodwinds
Opera fantasias have been denigrated as insufficiently intellectual or serious, as derivative, as merely popular or sentimental. However, many of the perceived flaws were, if not hallmarks, at least accepted realities of Italian opera composing. Like opera itself, the opera fantasia is a popular …
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Beyond Italian Opera. Manuel García in postcolonial Mexico City (1826-1828)
The thesis 'Beyond Italian opera. Manuel García in postcolonial Mexico City (1826-1828)' examines the operatic activities of the tenor and composer Manuel García in Mexico City between 1826 and 1828, and how they intersected with the Mexican nation-building project in the aftermath of independence …
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Bygone Modernity: Re-imagining Italian opera in Milan, New York and Buenos Aires, 1887-1914
This dissertation provides a detailed study of Italian operatic transfer between Milan, New York and Buenos Aires in the decades around 1900. It investigates how ideas and practices of Italian opera were defined in these two key American cities, offering an explicitly transnational perspective on …
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The performance of accompanied recitative in Italian opera according to the conducting method of Ilya Musin
For several centuries opera composers have made significant use of recitatives in their works. For conductors and singers, recitatives pose significant challenges, many arising because musical notation for recitatives is necessarily incomplete. Conductors must make important interpretive choices …
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Each tale chases another. Metaphorical representations, non-linearity and openness of narrative structure in Italian opera from post-WWII to It makes no difference
… discusses the narrative structure of post-WWII Italian avant-garde opera in conceptual terms and demonstrates how it develops on three principal features: the metaphorical representation of socio-political conditions, the non-linearity of the dramaturgy, and openness to a plurality of …
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The Comedies of Opera Seria: Handel’s Post-academy Operas, 1738-1744
… explores the ways in which Handel’s late operas intersect with other forms of theater in mid-eighteenth-century London. It seeks to explain how certain comic features of these late works—from the lighter subject matter of the libretti to Handel’s unconventional musical settings—can be seen …
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The Comedies of Opera Seria: Handel's Post-Academy Operas, 1738-1744
… explores the ways in which Handel's late operas intersect with other forms of theater in mid-eighteenth-century London. It seeks to explain how certain comic features of these late works--from the lighter subject matter of the libretti to Handel's unconventional musical settings--can be …
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Joseph Haydn and the dramma giocoso
Haydn's thirteen extant Esterhazy operas, composed from 1762-85, represent a microcosm of the various trends in Italian opera during the eighteenth century. His early operas illustrate his understanding and mastery of the opera seria, the intermezzo and the opera buffa traditions which he would …
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Die Zauberflöte: A European Singspiel
… and native styles, an amalgam of European opera and culture was realized in the Singspiel.</p> <p>The distinctive qualities that make this form of staged drama so unique can be understood within the context of European opera in the early eighteenth century. "Opera," according to the New …
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The marriage of Figaro : a comparative study of the theatre play by Beaumarchais and the opera by Mozart and Da Ponte
… for a good libretto to extablish him as an Italian opera composer, suggested the controversial play to Da Ponte as a possible libretto. This would be the first of three extroadinary operas produced by this fruitful partnership. For the libretto to be acceptable to the Austrian emperor, Da …
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The Effect of Instruction on the Perceived Degree of Liking for Opera in Upper Elementary Music Students
… elementary music students' degree of liking for opera. Twelve intact music classes were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. All students were administered a pretest, utilizing a five-point Likert-type scale, to determine initial degree of liking for each musical excerpt. …
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Porpora's Grail: A Study and Analysis of Nicola Porpora's Vocal Instruction
… instrumental in the development of the virtuosic Italian style and the case for naturalism in Italian opera. His mastery extended into the Classical era as well. Several of Porpora's techniques are still used today. Vocal instructors continue to put great emphasis on solfeggi for daily training …
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Opera at the Crossroads of Tradition and Reform in Gluck's Vienna
Operatic history is riddled with reform. Although at the discursive level all operatic reforms share similar motivations, their execution in practice yields extremely different results, each indicative of the time and place in which they occur. Despite their claims to pan-historical aesthetic truth …
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Instituting Opera in Fernando VII's Madrid: Acculturation and Critical reception in the Age of Rossini (1813-1824)
… phenomenon of local and national fanatical opera reception. During this period, which precedes the establishment of dedicated music periodicals by several decades, the country is not generally considered to have enjoyed consistent musical or theatrical press coverage, rendering their …
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Similarities in the Use of Dramatic Recitative Style in the Music of Claudio Monteverdi and Giuseppe Verdi, with Some Performance-Practice Issues
… comparative analysis of four scenes from their operas: “Arianna's Lament” from L'Arianna and “Disprezzata regina” from L'incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi, and “Condotta ell'era in ceppi” from Il trovatore and “Judgment Scene” from Aida by Verdi. The examination of the similarities included …
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Being a Composer in the Andes during the Age of Revolutions. Choices and Appropriations in the Music of José Bernardo Alzedo and Pedro Ximénez Abrill Tirado
… European influences (like printed scores and Italian opera) shaped local musical scenes; and the complexities of adapting colonial musical models to the new “republican” period and its changing values, perspectives and ideals.
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Chopin's Cantabile in Context
… concept of cantabile developed in the context of Italian opera, where it characterized a slow-moving, lyrical aria; but in and after the eighteenth century it assumed a far broader role in European composition and performance, providing a defined and recognizable context for ornamentation and …
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