Music for the melodramatic theatre in nineteenth-century London & New York
Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre-accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lady Audley's Secret, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, as well as historical romances by Shakespeare and Schiller-than th...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press
[2014]
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Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Studies in theatre history and culture. |
Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b30022708*spi |
Sumario: | Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre-accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lady Audley's Secret, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, as well as historical romances by Shakespeare and Schiller-than they did in almost any other area of their lives. But unlike film music, theatrical music has received very little attention from scholars and so it has been largely lost to us. In this groundbreaking study, Michael V. Pisani goes in search of these abandoned sounds. |
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Descripción Física: | xxvi, 386 p. : il |
Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781609382650 |