Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama
- Author: Hibberd, Sarah
This is an important and useful book... We venture into the territory of musical melodrama at some peril which is precisely why we should do so, if with as much caution as enthusiasm of the kind... — More…
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Contents
- Contents: Introduction, Sarah Hibberd
- Part I Melodrama as Genre: Music in PixA(c)rA(c)court'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-SaA"ns and the melodramatic ideal, Elinor Olin
- In a woman's voice: musical recitation and the feminization of American melodrama, Marian Wilson Kimber. Part II Melodrama on the Operatic Stage: 'Si l'orchestre seul chantait': melodramatic voices in Chelard's Macbeth (1827), Sarah Hibberd
- Melodramatic spectacle on the English operatic stage, Philip Carli
- JanA!cek and melodrama, John Tyrrell
- Dismembering 'expectations': the modernization of monodrama in fin-de-siAcle theatrical arts, Jessica Payette
- Opera for the people: melodrama in Hugo Herrmann's Vasantasena (1930), Nanette Nielsen. Part III Melodramatic Transformations: Berlioz's 'RomA(c)o 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', Jacqueline Waeber
- Dismembering the musical voice: Mahler, melodrama and Dracula from stage to screen, Jeremy Barham
- Bibliography
- Index.