Afterword
Annotation
Arson
Atheism
Behalf
Bourgeoisie
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Clarinet
Cosima Wagner
Deconstruction
Degree (music)
Devotional song
Diminutive
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dysentery
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Example (musician)
Folk music
Friedrich Meinecke
Frustration
Historical figure
Human sexual activity
Ideology
Imagery
In Pursuit
Instance (computer science)
Isoperimetric inequality
Jon Vickers
Journey to the East
Journeyman
Karl Mannheim
Khovanshchina
La figlia di Iorio
Libidinal Economy
Libretto
Luther Bible
Mathematical theory
Maurice Maeterlinck
Mefistofele
Melodramma
Meromorphic function
Michael Tippett
Modest Mussorgsky
Mutual intelligibility
N. (novella)
Neologism
Newspaper
Otello
Otello (Rossini)
Overtone
Persecution
Pessimism
Phenomenon
Poetry
Pronoun
Proverb
Pulley
Reinhart Koselleck
Richard Wagner
Ridicule
Russian opera
Secondary source
Self-image
Social criticism
Strophe
Symbolism (arts)
Tannhauser (opera)
The Remaining
Tonality
Tristan and Iseult
Tristan chord
Vladimir Stasov
Product details
- ISBN 9780691602677
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2014
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera," writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approaches to that much-maligned genre. To examine, and to challenge, the long-standing prejudice against libretti and the scholarly tradition that has, until recently, reiterated it, Groos and Roger Parker have commissioned thirteen stimulating essays by musicologists, literary critics, and historians. Taken as a whole, the volume demonstrates that libretti are now very much within the purview of contemporary humanistic scholarship. Libretti pose questions of intertextuality, transposition of genre, and reception history. They invite a broad spectrum of contemporary reading strategies ranging from the formalistic to the feminist. And as texts for music they raise issues in the relation between the two mediums and their respective traditions. Reading Opera will be of value to anyone with a serious interest in opera and contemporary opera criticism. The essays cover the period from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on works of the later nineteenth century.
The contributors are Carolyn Abbate, William Ashbrook, Katherine Bergeron, Caryl Emerson, Nelly Furman, Sander L. Gilman, Arthur Groos, James A. Hepokoski, Jurgen Maehder, Roger Parker, Paul Robinson, Christopher Wintle, and Susan Youens. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
