صداهای ملودراماتیک: درک درام موسیقی (مطالعات بین‌رشته‌ای در اپرا آشتگیت)

The genre of melodrame a grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. Physical gesture, mise en scene and music were as important in communicating meaning and passion as spoken dialogue. The premise of this volume is the idea that the melodramatic aesthetic is central to our understanding of nineteenth-century music drama, broadly defined as spoken plays with music, operas and other hybrid genres that combine music with text and/or image. This relationship is examined closely, and its evolution in the twentieth century in selected operas, musicals and films, is understood as an extension of this nineteenth-century aesthetic. The book therefore develops our understanding of opera in the context of melodrama's broader influence on musical culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book will appeal to those interested in film studies, drama, theatre and modern languages as well as music and opera. Music In Pixérécourt's Early Melodramas / Katherine Astbury -- Operatic Or Theatrical? Orchestral Framings Of The Voice In The Melodrama Sept Heures (1829) / Jens Hesselager -- Reconstructing Greek Drama: Saint-saëns And The Melodramatic Ideal / Elinor Olin -- In A Woman's Voice: Musical Recitation And The Feminization Of American Melodrama / Marian Wilson Kimber -- 'si L'orchestre Seul Chantait' : Melodramatic Voices In Chelard's Macbeth (1827) / Sarah Hibberd -- Melodramatic Spectacle On The English Operatic Stage / Philip Carli -- Janáček And Melodrama / John Tyrrell -- Dismembering 'expectations': The Modernization Of Monodrama In Fin-de-siècle Theatrical Arts / Jessica Payette -- Opera For The People: Melodrama In Hugo Herrmann's Vasantasena (1930) / Nanette Nielsen -- Berlioz's 'roméo Au Tombeau': Melodrama Of The Mind / Violaine Anger -- Be It [n]ever So Humble? The Narrating Voice In The Underscore To The Wizard Of Oz (mgm, 1939) / Fiona Ford -- The Voice-over As 'melodramatic Voice' / Jacqeline Waeber -- Dismembering The Musical Voice: Mahler, Melodrama And Dracula From Stage To Screen / Jeremy Barham. [edited By] Sarah Hibberd. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The genre of mélodrame à grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. Physical gesture, mise en scène and music were as important in communicating meaning and passion as spoken dialogue. The premise of this volume is the idea that the melodramatic aesthetic is central to our understanding of nineteenth-century music drama, broadly defined as spoken plays with music, operas and other hybrid genres that combine music with text and/or image. This relationship is examined closely, and its evolution in the twentieth century in selected operas, musicals and films is understood as an extension of this nineteenth-century aesthetic. The book therefore develops our understanding of opera in the context of melodrama's broader influence on musical culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book will appeal to those interested in film studies, drama, theatre and modern languages as well as music and opera. The genre of melodrame a grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. This volume may appeal to those interested in film studies, drama, and theatre as well as music and opera.