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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"operetta"”.
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Love and Reform: a chamber operetta
"Love and 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 …
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Little dove : a new operetta for undergraduate singers
Little Dove: A New Operetta for Undergraduate Singers presents an original stage work that is pedagogically appropriate for college-aged musicians. The score for Little Dove has been tailored to fit perceived needs of undergraduate opera singers and collegiate opera directors–it is thoroughly …
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Developments in Viennese operetta in Johann Strauss, Franz Lehár, and Robert Stolz.
The first immensely popular composer of Viennese operetta was Johann Strauss. Later composers, including Franz Lehár and Robert Stolz, became famous and wealthy for continuing the traditions of the genre as codified by Strauss. The most notable works of these composers either became part of the …
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Terminal Station: The Creation And Study of A Canadian Rock Operetta (And Its Idiomatic Soup)
… The process used to create of the original Rock Operetta Terminal Station, initiates a discussion about method, content and technology, and supports a philosophical and cosmopolitan compositional environment in 2017.
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Leonard Bernstein's Works for the Musical Theatre: How the Music Functions Dramatically
… the dramatic function of music in opera, operetta, musical drama, and musical comedy. The study is limited to his six works which contain a narrative line complete with character's names and plot. Most of the material analyzed was also studied in a performance setting. Aimed at producers, …
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“Das ist die Broadway Melodie”: American cultural motifs in German music film 1929 – 1945
… Popular stage genres, such as revue and operetta also absorbed American trends and subsequently influenced generic developments in German music film significantly. When inaugurating the genre of Tonfilmoperette (sound film operetta), German producers, directors and composers looked to …
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Regionalism in selected musical works of Charles Faulkner Bryan (1911-1955)
… 4 examines Bryan's Rebel Academy (1939), an operetta Bryan composed for use with his students at Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in Cookeville. Chapter 5 examines White Spiritual Symphony (1940) and Bryan's sources from both print and oral traditions for the white spirituals used in this …
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Moby Dick! The Musical: A Travesty In Travesti
… live in works ranging from Shakespeare to early operetta, and most important, Opera. This thesis role will allow me to log a personal experience in journal form and experience those challenges and rewards that transpire from a live performance. My research will include the history of the "trouser …
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Exile, Authorship, and 'The Good German': A Reconsideration of the Screenplays and Novels of Emeric Pressburger
… will then examine the often overlooked filmed operetta, <i>Oh...Rosalinda!! </i>(1955) along with Pressburger’s unfilmed screenplay <i>The Golden Years</i><br/>(1951) a biopic of Richard Strauss, and provide a comparison to demonstrate the manner in which Pressburger’s love of opera overlapped …
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Selected Songs for Chamber Winds and Soprano: Rediscovering a Forgotten Repertoire of John Philip Sousa
For over one hundred years, the music-going public has reflected on the life and influence of America's “March King,” John Philip Sousa. His popularity as a bandleader was unprecedented, and his reputation as an entertainer captivated the imagination and intrigue of a nation. Sousa's fame was …