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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"libretto"”.
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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
… in 1789. Mozart, who was looking 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 …
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The integration of dance as a dramatic element in broadway musical theatre
… of choreography in enhancing the musical Theatre libretto. The study surveys the origins and early evolution of stage dance in the United States from 1775 to the introduction of ballet choreography in 1922. It concludes with an examination of Selected scripts which use choreography to dramatize …
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Bandanna, An Opera by Daron Aric Hagen with Libretto by Paul Muldoon, Commissioned by the College Band Directors National Association: The Origins of an Artwork with a Glimpse at its Musical Character Development
… Hagen contracted Paul Muldoon to write the libretto. A consortium of 79 member schools contributed to the project. A total of $100,000.00 was paid to the composer. The Director of Bands at Baylor University conducted the premiere performance of Bandanna during the 1999 CBDNA convention on 25 …
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Master's thesis recital (voice)
… opera in two acts / composed by Daron Hagen ; libretto by Daron Hagen & Barbara Grecki, based on the play by Barbara Grecki.
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Cry wolf : an opera for young audiences
… based on characters from Aesop’s fables, with a libretto by William Glick. A semi-staged production was premiered in April 2017 at the Cohen New Works Festival at the University of Texas at Austin. The opera tells the story of the ‘Boy Who Cried Wolf’, and what happened after the Boy left the …
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Joseph Haydn and the dramma giocoso
… stock character types and the structure of the libretto generally adheres to the separation of serious and comic characters. In these works Haydn follows the musical conventions for each character type with only slight deviations. It is in the last three drammi giocosi, Il mondo della luna …
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Love and Reform: a chamber operetta
… Reform" is a chamber operetta composed from a libretto written by the composer for female narrator, soprano, tenor, bass, and string quintet. The drama is an Epicurean satire concerning the imagined afterlife of recently deceased Emperor Joseph II of Austria (1765-1790). The language of the …
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"Reconstruction of Vivaldi's ""Armida Al Campo d'Egitto"
… reconstructive process as well as the translated libretto and completed score of Armida.
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Haydn's Creation as a Musical Response to the Enlightenment
… and philosophical naturalism, mark both the libretto and certain aspects of the music of Haydn's Creation. The opening chapters of the dissertation establish the philosophical, historical, literary, and musical milieu as shaped by leading thinkers of the period. Influences of important …
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Propoetides
… piano and strings. This setting of the myth (the libretto by the composer, with Italian translation by Sara Maida-Nicol) places Pygmalion as an Italian high-fashion magazine photo editor disgusted by Women’s Rights marchers who protest around him: a modern interpretation of the classical …
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Conducting L'Histoire du Soldat : a tale of two libretti
… collaborator on l’Histoire du Soldat, based his libretto on a Russian folk tale, but in 1993, Vonnegut wrote a new text to accompany Stravinsky’s music, a text inspired by the true story of Private Eddie Slovik, the last American soldier executed for desertion. In essence, Vonnegut collaborates …
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Expressions of African American identity in the cantata “Simon Bore the Cross” by Margaret Bonds and Langston Hughes
… of the available drafts of the cantata libretto and music, and a detailed analysis of the final piano-vocal autograph score. Finally, it will discuss the ways in which Bonds' and Hughes' pride in their African-American heritage influenced their art. Langston Hughes was at the center of …
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Myth in the Early Collaborations of Benjamin Britten and William Plomer
… and to the completed Gloriana, in that the libretto and the music can be seen as representing different interpretations of both major and minor characters in the opera, including Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. In Gloriana, Britten employed at least three specifically musical …
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A Different Drummer: A Chamber Opera
… musical elements in each scene of the opera. The libretto is presented in the fourth chapter.
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All This the World Well Knows: a symphonic cantata in Sonnets and Proverbs for mixed chorus, four solo voices, and orchestra
… tenor, and baritone), and orchestra. The libretto, adapted by the composer, weaves together texts from Shakespeare's Dark Lady sonnets and from the King James Bible's book of Proverbs in a loose narrative of love, betrayal, and reconciliation. The composition's pitch material includes …
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"""Der Rosenkavalier"": Genesis, Modelling, and New Aesthetic Paths"
… of Hofmannsthal's evolving drafts of the libretto and Strauss's sketches. The dissertation concludes by assessing some of the ways Der Rosenkavalier points forward to further experimentation in Strauss's later operas.
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Massenet, Marianne and Mary : Republican morality and Catholic tradition at the opera
… respect to the choice of subject matter, the libretto and its genesis (especially transformations made in the process of creating a libretto), the music (both in it srelation to the specific drama and musical convention of the time), the staging and its messages, and the critical reception in …
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The Murderess: A True Crime Chamber Opera
… cello, piano, and percussion. The original libretto by Trip Venturella tells the story of a nurse, inspired by the nineteenth-century American serial killer Jane Toppan, who plans to poison her elderly patient with strychnine. In a twist ending, Jane’s elderly patient is given agency by …
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A Scholarly Edition with Exegesis of Niccolò Piccinni's Dramma Giocoso: 'Il Regno della Luna' (1770).
… beyond dispute became open to question. The libretto of Piccinni’s opera canvasses a broad range of contemporaneous issues in a uniquely confronting manner. Exploiting the trope of an ‘other world’ and ‘other time’ setting, it concerns a visit in the future by Earth people to a fictive Lunar …
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