Book · May 20, 2025
Poetic Recitation in Central Europe, 1760-1820 Jacqueline Waeber. spection , became the privileged theatrical locus for the display of excess . 62 The melodramatic libretto is a ' shortened tragedy ' : a Kurztragödie , a term used in German .. ...
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Book · December 22, 2022
With a range from opera's sixteenth-century antecedents to the threshold of the eighteenth century, this path breaking book is broad enough to function as a comprehensive introduction, yet sufficiently detailed to offer valuable insights ... ...
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Journal ArticleSoundEffects · August 2013
Overblown cinematography and excess of visual attraction are the key features in Christopher Nolan’s Inception (UK/USA, 2010), a film that eventually exhausts itself in its numerous tours de force. Yet, Inception’s multi-levelled phantasmagoria cannot esca ...
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Journal Article · 2012
On ne s’est guère interrogé sur ce que fut la principale activité professionnelle de Rousseau, ‘copiste de musique’. Recopier un texte musical a longtemps été, avant l’avènement des moyens mécaniques de reproduction, une activité essentielle de la pédagogi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the American Musicological Society · 2009
Introduced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his Letter on French music (1753), “unité de mélodie” has commonly been understood as a technical rule asserting the primacy of melody over all the other musical parameters. It is the key concept of Rousseau’s musical ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the Royal Musical Association · 2007
In the early nineteenth century, the piano étude was conceived as an outgrowth of the eighteenth-century exercice, perpetuating the idea of mechanical virtuosity devoid of any poetic meaning; but it was also shaped by the Romantic pièce de caractère. Drawi ...
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