Opera and its symbols : the unity of words, music, and staging
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Opera and its symbols : the unity of words, music, and staging
Yale University Press, c1990
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Opera & its symbols : the unity of words, music, & staging
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Bibliography: p. 231-238
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The author is a noted musicologist, performer, and writer, known for his book "Wagner's Ring and Its Symbols", and for his reference work "The Interpretation of Early Music". In this book, he discusses the workings of symbolism in opera and the importance of staging an opera in keeping with the composer's intentions. Only in this way, claims the author, can we be faithful to the conscious or unconscious symbolism invested in the work by the composer and librettist.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Principles: a totality of symbols
- words, music, and staging
- compatability on stage. Part 2 Practice: the start of opera
- Monteverdi
- the Age of Reason
- the Enlightenment
- a Masonic vision
- the romantic movement
- Verdi
- early Wagner
- Wagner's "Ring"
- further Wagner
- the last of Wagner
- realism
- Strauss
- the twentieth century
- the prospects for Opera.
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