Opera as Drama: Fiftieth Anniversary EditionUniversity of California Press, 14 déc. 2005 - 232 pages PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITIONS: “If you are for opera, this book is for you.”—New York Times Book Review “The most influential recent book on opera criticism…in the English-speaking world”—New Grove Dictionary of Opera “Affords the serious reader and listener an absorbing encounter with a sensitive and superbly trained intelligence in the act of thinking about music and music criticism…. We come away remembering the sound of Kerman’s prose voice, mellifluous, elegant, eminently civilized, beneath its cool control a ground bass of urgent feeling.”—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "The author's clarity and pungency...make for enjoyable, challenging reading. It is a collection that can tease the person who is primarily interested in opera into wanting to explore the song literature of the English Renaissance or to listen more knowledgeably to Mozart's piano concertos and Beethoven's symphonies."—William Ashbrook, Opera Quarterly "Kerman's musicological activity is technical without neglecting the importance of text, cultural context, meaning, expression, and value, and is likely to appeal to educated lay people.... Kerman's scholarship is careful and sensitive, and often subtle and witty. Yet this subtle scholarship has evoked strong and widespread reaction and provided significant leadership within musicology and beyond."—Renée Cox Lorraine, Notes "Lucid, lively.... Many aspects of his work can provide inspiration."—Oliver Neighbour, Music and Letters |
Table des matières
Prologue Opera as Drama | 1 |
Orpheus The Neoclassic Vision | 18 |
The Dark Ages | 39 |
Action and the Musical Continuity | 58 |
Mozart | 80 |
Verdis Otello Traditional Opera and the Image of Shakespeare | 109 |
Opera as Sung Play | 140 |
Opera as Symphonic Poem | 158 |
Retrenchment Wozzeck and The Rakes Progress | 178 |
Drama and the Alternative | 203 |
Epilogue On Operatic Criticism | 214 |
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action Æneas aria articulation artistic audience Bach baroque bass Beethoven Berg Boïto cabaletta cadence cantata century character chorus classic comedy convention Così fan tutte Countess critics Debussy Debussy's Desdemona developed Dido's Don Giovanni dramatic dramatist dramaturgy duet Elvira emotional ensemble Eurydice Example fan tutte feeling final Gluck Golaud Iago Iago's idea ideal Idomeneo imaginative interlude later leitmotiv Leporello libretto lovers Lully Lully's lyric Maeterlinck Magic Flute Marriage of Figaro matic means melody Metastasio Monteverdi mood motive Mozart musical continuity musical drama musical form never numbers Opera as Drama opera buffa opera composer opera seria orchestral Orfeo Orpheus Otello passage passion Pelléas et Mélisande piece plot Ponte Puccini Purcell Rake's Progress recitative rhythm scene seems sense sentiment Shakespeare's singer sings song stage Strauss Striggio style symbolic symphonic technique theater theme tion tonic Tosca Tristan und Isolde Verdi Verdi's Wagner Wagnerian whole Wozzeck