| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
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| Disciplina |
782.1/20922
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| Collana |
Cambridge companions to music
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| ISBN |
1-139-80185-6
1-139-00263-5
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Part I. Background: -- Savoy opera and its discontents: the theatrical background to a quarrel / David Eden -- Identity crisis and the search for English opera: the Savoy Theatre in the 1890s / William Parry -- Resituating Gilbert and Sullivan: the musical and aesthetic context / Benedict Taylor -- 'We sing as one individual'?: popular misconceptions of 'Gilbert and Sullivan' / Meinhard Saremba -- Part II. Focus: -- The operas in context: stylistic elements - the Savoy and beyond / Richard Silverman -- The librettos in context: Gilbert's 'Fables in Song' / Horst Dölvers -- 'This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter': patter songs and the word-music relationship / Laura Kasson Fiss -- Standing still and moving forward: The Mikado, Haddon Hall, and concepts of time in the Savoy operas / Michael Beckerman -- Musical contexts I: motives and methods in Sullivan's allusions / James Brooks Kuykendall -- Musical contexts II: characterisation and emotion in the Savoy operas / Martin T. Yates -- Part III. Reception: -- Topsy-Turvy: a personal journey / Mike Leigh -- Amateur tenors and choruses in public: the amateur scene / Ian Bradley -- Champions and aficionados: amateur and listener experiences of the Savoy operas in performance / Stephanie Pitts -- 'How great thy charm, thy sway how excellent!': tracing Gilbert and Sullivan's legacy in the American musical / Raymond Knapp -- 'See how the Fates their gifts allot': the reception of productions and translations in continental Europe / Jana Polianovskaia -- Part IV. Into the Twenty-First Century: -- Adventures in musical detection: scholarship, editions, productions and the future of the Savoy operas / David Russell Hulme -- Appendix 1: Who wrote the overtures? -- Appendix 2: Stage and choral works by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert -- Appendix 3: Modern editions of works by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert.
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| Altri titoli varianti |
The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert & Sullivan
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| Record Nr. | UNISA-996210315503316 |
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The Cambridge companion to Gilbert and Sullivan / / edited by David Eden and Meinhard Saremba [[electronic resource]]
