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In Search of Opera
Carolyn Abbate
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Description for In Search of Opera
Paperback. Considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. This book argues that operatic works are indelibly bound to the contingency of live singing, playing, and staging. It explores a spectrum of attitudes towards musical performance. Series: Princeton Studies in Opera. Num Pages: 312 pages, 14 halftones. 30 scores. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
In her new book, Carolyn Abbate considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. Paying tribute to music's realization by musicians and singers, she argues that operatic works are indelibly bound to the contingency of live singing, playing, and staging. She seeks a middle ground between operas as abstractions and performance as the phenomenon that brings opera into being. Weaving between opera's "facts of life" and a series of works including The Magic Flute, Parsifal, and Pelleas, Abbate explores a spectrum of attitudes towards musical performance, which range from ... Read more
In her new book, Carolyn Abbate considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. Paying tribute to music's realization by musicians and singers, she argues that operatic works are indelibly bound to the contingency of live singing, playing, and staging. She seeks a middle ground between operas as abstractions and performance as the phenomenon that brings opera into being. Weaving between opera's "facts of life" and a series of works including The Magic Flute, Parsifal, and Pelleas, Abbate explores a spectrum of attitudes towards musical performance, which range from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Studies in Opera
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691117317
SKU
V9780691117317
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About Carolyn Abbate
Carolyn Abbate is Professor of Music at Princeton University. She is the author of "Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century" (Princeton), which will appear in French as "Voix hors-chant". She is translator of Jean-Jacques Nattiez's "Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music" (Princeton) and of the forthcoming "Music and the Ineffable" by Vladimir Jankelevitch (Princeton). ... Read more
Reviews for In Search of Opera
"Anyone who believes in opera as an essential human experience will warm to this book, a must-have if you believe that this bizarre art form has something more to sing about than the trillings of bejewelled prima donnas and the positively necrophiliac yearning for the presence of long dead musician."
Keith Warner, BBC Music Magazine "Ten years after her much-praised Unsung ... Read more
Keith Warner, BBC Music Magazine "Ten years after her much-praised Unsung ... Read more