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The Cambridge companion to Gilbert and Sullivan / edited by David Eden and Meinhard Saremba
| Titre | The Cambridge companion to Gilbert and Sullivan / edited by David Eden and Meinhard Saremba |
| Responsable(s) secondaire(s) |
Eden, David
: Editeur
Saremba, Meinhard
: Editeur
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| Éditeur(s) |
Cambridge [etc.]: Cambridge University Press, 2009
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| Type de document | XIII, 274 p. : ill., music ; 26 cm |
| Collection(s) |
Cambridge companions to music
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| Langue du document | Anglais |
| ISBN | 9780521888493 |
| Notes | Bibliogr. : p. [257]-269. Index |
| Sujet(s) | |
| Contenu | Part I. Background. Savoy opera and its discontents: the theatrical background to a quarrel / David Eden ; Identity crisis and the search for English opera: the Savoy Theatre in the 1890s / William Parry ; Resituating Gilbert and Sullivan: the musical and aesthetic context / Benedict Taylor ; 'We sing as one individual'?: popular misconceptions of 'Gilbert and Sullivan' / Meinhard Saremba. -- Part II. Focus. The operas in context: stylistic elements - the Savoy and beyond / Richard Silverman ; The librettos in context: Gilbert's 'Fables in Song' / Horst Dolvers ; 'This Particularly rapid, unintelligible patter': patter songs and the word-music relationship / Laura Kasson Fiss ; Standing still and moving forward: The Mikado, Haddon Hall, and concepts of time in the Savoy operas / Michael Beckerman ; Musical contexts I: motives and methods in Sullivan's allusions / James Brooks Kuykendall ; Musical contexts II: characterisation and emotion in the Savoy operas / Martin T. Yates. -- Part III. Reception: ; Topsy-Turvy: a personal journey / Mike Leigh ; Amateur tenors and choruses in public: the amateur scene / Ian Bradley ; Champions and aficionados: amateur and listener experiences of the Savoy operas in performance / Stephanie Pitts ; 'How great thy charm, thy sway how excellent! ': tracing Gilbert and Sullivan's legacy in the American musical / Raymond Knapp ; 'See how the Fates their gifts allot': the reception of productions and translations in continental Europe / Jana Polianovskaia. -- Part IV. Into the Twenty-First Century: Adventures in musical detection: scholarship, editions, productions and the future of the Savoy operas / David Russell Hulme. -- Appendix 1: Who wrote the overtures? -- Appendix 2: Stage and choral works by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert. -- Appendix 3: Modern editions of works by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert |
| ID interne | 74083 |
| Cote | Ae 13515 |
| Localisation | Dépôt extérieur, à commander en ligne |