The New Grove Guide To Wagner And His Operas

Author : Barry Millington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195345517
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas written by Barry Millington and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most controversial figures in the history of ideas as well as music, Richard Wagner continues to stimulate debate whenever his works are performed. Drawing upon the scholarship of The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the most comprehensive dictionary of opera in the world, Barry Millington offers a concise, portable survey and guide, which will make a welcome addition to the shelf of anyone who loves opera. Millington has completely updated the original pieces and contributed four new chapters on Wagner, including a summary of Wagner productions from 1876 to the present day, a suggested listening and viewing gyide, complete chronology of Wagner's operas, and a glossary of terms that will delight any opera-goer. In addition, there are detailed entries on each of Wagner's operas, a main biographical section, and a group of separate articles on such topics as Leitmotif and Gesamtkunstwerk, as well as a newly revised updated article on Bayreuth. Complete with a new preface, updated bibliography, glossary, and discography--including first release dates of each recording--The New Grove Guide to Wagner and his Operas furnishes both seasoned Wagner-lovers and neophytes with all they require for an in-depth appreciation of this unique historical figure.

Author : Barry Millington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190295155
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas written by Barry Millington and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most controversial figures in the history of ideas as well as music, Richard Wagner continues to stimulate debate whenever his works are performed. Drawing upon the scholarship of The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the most comprehensive dictionary of opera in the world, Barry Millington offers a concise, portable survey and guide, which will make a welcome addition to the shelf of anyone who loves opera. Millington has completely updated the original pieces and contributed four new chapters on Wagner, including a summary of Wagner productions from 1876 to the present day, a suggested listening and viewing gyide, complete chronology of Wagner's operas, and a glossary of terms that will delight any opera-goer. In addition, there are detailed entries on each of Wagner's operas, a main biographical section, and a group of separate articles on such topics as Leitmotif and Gesamtkunstwerk, as well as a newly revised updated article on Bayreuth. Complete with a new preface, updated bibliography, glossary, and discography--including first release dates of each recording--The New Grove Guide to Wagner and his Operas furnishes both seasoned Wagner-lovers and neophytes with all they require for an in-depth appreciation of this unique historical figure.

Author : Stanley Sadie
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780333790212
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wagner and His Operas written by Stanley Sadie and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wagner and his Operas is derived from the prestigious New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the world's leading reference work on opera. Wagner and his Operas brings together in one affordable volume the story of Richard Wagner's life and career, and synopses and authoritative appreciations of all his operas from Die Feen ('The Fairies') to Die Walkre ('The Valkyrie'). A chronological table will help the reader to situate Wagner's operas in the wider context of his life and career, and a glossary will provide readers with concise and informative explanations of any operatic terms used in the text. Generously illustrated, Wagner and his Operas will be an enjoyable and enlightening read for opera lovers of all levels.

Author : Barry Millington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199986959
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sorcerer of Bayreuth written by Barry Millington and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is one of the most influential - and also one of the most controversial - composers in the history of music. Over the course of his long career, he produced a stream of spellbinding works that challenged musical convention through their richness and tonal experimentation, ultimately paving the way for modernism. This book presents an in-depth but easy-to-read overview of Wagner's life, work and times. It considers a wide range of themes, including the composer's original sources of inspiration; his fetish for exotic silks; his relationship with his wife, Cosima, and with his mistress, Mathilde Wesendonck; the anti-semitism that is undeniably present in the operas; their proto-cinematic nature; and the turbulent legacy both of the Bayreuth Festival and of Wagnerism itself. Making use of the very latest scholarship - much of it undertaken by the author himself in connection with his editorship of The Wagner Journal - Millington reassesses received notions about Wagner and his work, demolishing ill-informed opinion in favour of proper critical understanding. It is a radical - and occasionally controversial - reappraisal of this most perplexing of composers. The volume's arrangement - unique among books on the composer -combines an accessible text, intriguing images and original documents, thus ensuring a consistently fresh approach. Bringing new insights to an endlessly fascinating subject, The Sorcerer of Bayreuth will charm anyone interested in music and in the wider cultural life of the 19th century and beyond.

Author : Julian Rushton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Grove Guide to Mozart and His Operas written by Julian Rushton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rushton has based this volume on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera that feature information on the life of Mozart, his works, librettists, and interpreters, and the places where his works have been performed. Rushton compiles these meticulously researched articles into an organized narrative, designed to make finding information on Mozart as easy as possible without sacrificing readability This volume is completely up-to-date, and includes a suggested listening guide and a six-page photo gallery."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Michael Steen
Publisher : Great Opera Companion - Individual Guides to a Hundred Best Operas
ISBN 13 : 9780995538580
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Operas of Wagner written by Michael Steen and published by Great Opera Companion - Individual Guides to a Hundred Best Operas. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barry Millington
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500770980
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wagner Compendium written by Barry Millington and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wagner Compendium presents a comprehensive survey of the man, his oeuvre and his times. The musical and intellectual background and influences which helped shape the Wagnerian canon are considered in their historical and political contexts. Wagners character, opinions and behaviour are examined along with a special chapter on Myths and Legends, which wittily corrects the misconceptions with which he has become associated. Wagners musical and literary style are treated in depth, and his operas, orchestral and choral music analysed together with the lesser-known works for solo voice, the piano music, and the projected operas. Chapters on orchestration and Wagner in performance are complemented by accounts of the reception and influence of his music. The bibliography accompanies the most complete list ever published of his writings, speeches, open letters and reviews, as well as a glossary explaining the meanings of Wagnerian terms, a calendar of his life and a Whos Who of his contemporaries.

Author : Barry Millington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500516430
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Wagner written by Barry Millington and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in the run-up to the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth in 2013, and written by one of the most distinguished Wagner scholars in the world, this will be the Wagner book of the bicentenary. Richard Wagner (18131883) is one of the most influential and also one of the most polarizing composers in the history of music. Over the course of his long career, he produced a stream of spellbinding works that challenged musical convention through their richness and tonal experimentation, ultimately paving the way for modernism. This book presents an in-depth but easy-to-read overview of Wagners life, work and times. Making use of the very latest scholarship much of it undertaken by the author himself in connection with his editorship of The Wagner Journal Millington reassesses received notions about Wagner and his work, demolishing ill-informed opinion in favour of proper critical understanding It is a radical and occasionally controversial reappraisal of this most perplexing of composers.

Author : Margaret Ross Griffel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442247975
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operas in German written by Margaret Ross Griffel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nearly three thousand new entries, the revised edition of Operas in German: A Dictionary is the most current encyclopedic treatment of operas written specifically to a German text from the seventeenth century through 2016. Musicologist Margaret Ross Griffel details the operas’ composers, scores, librettos, first performances, and bibliographic sources. Four appendixes then list composers, librettists, authors whose works inspired or were adapted for the opera librettos, and a chronological listing of the entries in the A–Z section. The bibliography details other dictionaries and encyclopedias, performance studies, collections of plot summaries, general studies on operas, sources on locales where opera premieres took place, works on the history of operas in German, and selective volumes on individual opera composers, librettists, producers, directors, and designers. Finally, two indexes list the main characters in each opera and the names of singers, conductors, producers, composers, directors, choreographers, and arrangers. The revised edition of Operas in German provides opera historians, musicologists, performers, and opera lovers with an invaluable resource for continued study and enjoyment. As the most current encyclopedic collection of German opera from the seventeenth century through the twenty-first, Operas in German is an invaluable resource for opera historians, musicologists, performers, and opera lovers.

Author : Michael Saffle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135839530
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Wagner written by Michael Saffle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wagner: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer and performer.