Word, Image, and Song, Vol. 2 - Essays on Musical Voices

Applies the notion of musical "voice" to diverse repertoires, ranging from the operas and cantatas of Handel to the autograph albums of nineteenth-century collector Charlotte de Rothschild.

List of contents

The Choices of Hercules and Handel - Ruth Smith
The Cantata as Narrative: Serials, Colloquies, and Commemoratives - Ellen T. Harris
Communities of Time in Handel's Opera - Nathan Link
The Metastasian Sonosphere - Giovanni Morelli
Music for a Saxon Princess - Rebecca Cypess
Text, Voice, and Genre in "Nun ist der Herr zur Ruh gebracht" - Daniel R. Melamed
Happy and Sad: Robert Schumann's Art of Ambiguity - Kristina Muxfeldt
Beethoven's Handel and the Messiah - Bathia Churgin
The Livre d'or of Charlotte de Rothschild - Philip Gossett
The Art of Artlessness, or Adelina Patti Teaches Us How to Be Natural - Roger Freitas
Manly Music: Reading Victorian Language - Ruth Solie
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors

About the author

Rebecca Cypess, Beth L. Glixon, Nathan Link

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Cypess
• Assisted by: Rebecca Cypess (Editor), Rebecca Cypress (Editor), Beth Glixon (Editor), Beth L Glixon (Editor), Beth L. Glixon (Editor), Nathan Link (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2013
• EAN: 9781580464307
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-430-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Series: Eastman Studies in Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Musikgeschichte, Klassik, MUSIC / History & Criticism, Music / Songbooks, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / International