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1 Online-Ressource (199 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780226741802
Serie:
Opera Lab: Explorations in History, Technology, and Performance
Inhalt:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. History’s Muse: The Spectacle of Poetic Improvisation -- 2. Corinna’s Crown: Improvisation and Authority in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims -- 3. Divinely Inspired: Incantation and the Making of Melody in Bellini’s Norma -- 4. Saffo’s Lyre: Improvising Operatic Authorship -- 5. A Sapphic Orpheus: Pauline Viardot and the Sexual Politics of Operatic Collaboration -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Inhalt:
From the theatrical stage to the literary salon, the figure of Sappho—the ancient poet and inspiring icon of feminine creativity—played a major role in the intertwining histories of improvisation, text, and performance throughout the nineteenth century. Exploring the connections between operatic and poetic improvisation in Italy and beyond, Singing Sappho combines earwitness accounts of famous female improviser-virtuosi with erudite analysis of musical and literary practices. Melina Esse demonstrates that performance played a much larger role in conceptions of musical authorship than previously recognized, arguing that discourses of spontaneity—specifically those surrounding the improvvisatrice, or female poetic improviser—were paradoxically used to carve out a new authority for opera composers just as improvisation itself was falling into decline. With this novel and nuanced book, Esse persuasively reclaims the agency of performers and their crucial role in constituting Italian opera as a genre in the nineteenth century
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780226741772
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Esse, Melina Singing Sappho Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021 ISBN 9780226741772
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Italien
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Oper
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Gesang
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Improvisation
DOI:
10.7208/9780226741802
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