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

Robert Donington

Yale University Press, c1990

  • : pbk

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Opera & its symbols : the unity of words, music, & staging

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注記

Bibliography: p. 231-238

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9780300047134

内容説明

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.

目次

  • 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.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780300056617

内容説明

Robert Donington, the noted musicologist, performer, and writer, is famous for his influential and provocative book Wagner's "Ring" and Its Symbols, and for his indispensable reference work The Interpretation of Early Music. In this book he discusses the workings of symbolism in opera and the importance of staging opera in keeping with the composer's intentions. Only in this way, says Donington, can we be faithful to the conscious or unconscious symbolism invested in the work by the composer and librettist. Starting form Carlyle's premise that "it is through symbols that man, consciously or unconsciously, lives, works and has his being," Donington interprets scenes and characters from operas by Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Bizet, Puccini, Debussy, Strauss, Stravinsky, Berg, Britten, Tippett, and other composers. Time and again Donington sheds new light on operatic situations that are problematic or have become over-familiar. His lively and wide-ranging work reveals a deep knowledge and love of opera, combined with a rare insight into hidden meanings to be found in music, words, and action.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA12779706
  • ISBN
    • 0300047134
    • 0300056613
  • LCCN
    89039530
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New Haven
  • ページ数/冊数
    viii, 248 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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