Contextualizing melodrama in the Czech lands : in concert and on stage / Judith A. Mabary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mabary, Judith, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera--Czech Republic.

Opera.

Melodrama.

Genre:

Melodrama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Judith A. Mabary is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Her research interests center on Czech music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, namely the life and works of Antonín Dvořk̀, Zdeňek Fibich, Bohuslav Martinů, and Vítězslava Kaprl̀ov ̀as well as the genre of Czech melodrama.

Contents:

1. The Musical Melodrama: Rationality Overruled; 2. The Path to Benda's Melodramas: From the Jesuit Schuldrama through Rousseau's Experiment in Pygmalion; 3. A Place in the Theatre: The Impact of Jiří Benda and the Seyler Company on Melodrama; 4. The Sacred and the Profane: Melodrama in Prague; 5. From Paris and the Boulevard du Crime to Prague's Estates Theatre: Tracing the Popular Melodrama; 6. Zdeněk Fibich and the Revitalization of the Classical Melodrama; 7. Fibich's Concert Melodramas: A Closer Look; 8. Fibich's Hippodamie: Melodrama for the Dramatic Stage; 9. Epilogue

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781000168914

1000168913

9781000168839

1000168832

9781000168877

1000168875

9781003037293

1003037291

Publisher Number:

40030294551

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