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Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama

Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama

Hardcover

Series: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera

Theater HistoryOperaMusic Theory

ISBN10: 1409400824
ISBN13: 9781409400820
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 28 2011
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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. 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.

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