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Author |
: Richard Powers |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2014-01-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443422925 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1443422924 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Orfeo by : Richard Powers
The author of the National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Echo Maker, Richard Powers “may well be one of the smartest novelists now writing” (LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Seventy-year-old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home DIY microbiology lab--the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to extract music from rich patterns beyond the ear’s ability to hear--has come to the attention of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid on his house, Els turns fugitive, waiting for the evidence to clear him and for the alarm surrounding his activities to blow over. His days in hiding provoke memories of a turbulent century of musical turf wars and cause Els to reflect on a life spent chasing after transcendent sounds to the bewilderment of an indifferent public. As the national hysteria for safety erupts again in the face of this latest threat, Els--the “Bioterrorist Bach”--feeling the noose around him tighten, embarks on a cross-country trip to visit the people in his past who have most shaped his failed musical journey. Through the help of these people--his ex-wife, his daughter and his long-time artistic collaborator-- Els comes up with a plan to turn this disastrous collision with the security state into one last, resonant artwork that might reach an audience beyond his wildest dreams. Inspired by Steve Kurtz, the bio-artist wrongly arrested for terrorism by the FBI, Orfeo probes the boundary between stifling safety and reckless, releasing danger. It explores the varieties of human hunger, in particular the desire to hear more and to make meaning where there is none. Finally, the book is a meditation on that most endangered and priceless of human resources: attention.
Author |
: Joel Schwindt |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 243 |
Release |
: 2021-08-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000431339 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000431339 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Orpheus in the Academy by : Joel Schwindt
This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first great opera', by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti, the group which hosted the opera’s performance, and to which the libretto author, Alessandro Striggio the Younger, belonged. Arguing that the Invaghiti played a key role in shaping the development of Orfeo, the author explores the philosophical underpinnings of the Invaghiti and Italian academies of the era. Drawing on new primary sources, he shows how the Invaghiti’s ideas about literature, dramaturgy, music, gender, and aesthetics were engaged and contested in the creation and staging of Orfeo. Relevant to researchers of music history, performance, and Renaissance and Baroque Italy, this study sheds new light on Monteverdi’s opera as an intellectual and philosophical work.
Author |
: John Whenham |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 1986-02-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521284775 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521284776 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo by : John Whenham
A detailed study of the earliest opera to have gained a foothold in the modern repertoire, the book begins with a historical section in which all the known evidence about the creation and early performances of Orfeo is drawn together and evaluated. The second section of the book includes a detailed history of the rediscovery of the opera; an influential essay by Joseph Kerman is reprinted here, together with a review by Romain Rolland of the first modern performance of Orfeo. The final section includes essays by a conductor and a producer who have staged notable performances of the opera in recent years. They explain their approaches to the work, and offer solutions to some of the problems it poses in performance.
Author |
: Michelene Wandor |
Publisher |
: Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2024-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781836286448 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1836286449 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Orfeo’s Last Act by : Michelene Wandor
In Orfeo’s Last Act, set in 17th-century Italy, Monteverdi rewrites 'Orfeo's' ending with Salamone Rossi's help. The original was lost. In modern East Anglia, Emilia discovers a mysterious manuscript, leading her into a world of passion, danger, forgery, and academic intrigue.
Author |
: Glen Segell |
Publisher |
: Glen Segell Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 41 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781901414028 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1901414027 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Striggio, Monteverdi's L'orfeo by : Glen Segell
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:18245059 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chronik des Kirchspiels Steinberg: T. 1. Steinberg by :
Author |
: Brian Craig |
Publisher |
: Black Library |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1841542318 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781841542317 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Zaragoz by : Brian Craig
Author |
: Burton D. Fisher |
Publisher |
: Opera Journeys Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 18 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781102041665 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1102041661 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gluck's Orfeo Ed Euridice by : Burton D. Fisher
A comprehensive opera-guide, featuring Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis.
Author |
: Claudio Monteverdi |
Publisher |
: Oneworld Classics |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0714544469 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780714544465 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Operas of Monteverdi by : Claudio Monteverdi
English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. Monteverdi s 1607 version of the legend of Orpheus is arguably the first masterpiece of opera. Composed for the court of Mantua, where Monteverdi was employed, it is very different from his two other surviving operas, which he wrote more than30 years later to entertain Venetian audiences in the first public opera houses. Orfeo was long considered untranslatable, because the text is so closely tied to the music, and the Venetian librettos owe some of their brilliance to Spanish Golden Age theatre. This opera guide is an opportunity to read all three of Monteverdi s stage works together, in Anne Ridler s graceful translations."
Author |
: Stavros George Deligiorgis |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 1966 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:C2969363 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sir Orfeo by : Stavros George Deligiorgis