The Minor and the Marginalized? Recent Writing on Song and Speech in the Long Nineteenth Century

As “opera studies” – with their connotations of narrow repertory, even closer reading and a reluctance to engage with the overwhelming tradition of works involving spoken dialogue – yield to a broader view of music in the nineteenth-century European theatre, it becomes more and more obvious just ho...

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Cyhoeddwyd yn:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/transposition,
Prif Awdur: Everist, Mark
Fformat: Article ou chapitre numérique
Iaith:Anglais
Cyhoeddwyd: Transposition 2022
Mynediad Ar-lein:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Crynodeb:As “opera studies” – with their connotations of narrow repertory, even closer reading and a reluctance to engage with the overwhelming tradition of works involving spoken dialogue – yield to a broader view of music in the nineteenth-century European theatre, it becomes more and more obvious just how tiny the segment of the repertory “opera studies” in fact constitute. Four recent books represent various types of shift away from a narrow canon of “opera” and towards a more comprehensive accou...