Pisani Michael V. Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York 9781609382308

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Автор: Pisani Michael V.
Название: Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York
Перевод названия: Майкл Писани: Музыка для мелодраматических спектаклей Лондона и Нью-Йорка 19в.
ISBN: 9781609382308
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Театральная режиссура и постановка

Музыка: стили и жанры

ISBN-10: 1609382307
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 384
Вес: 0.61 кг.
Дата издания: 30.05.2014
Серия: Studies in theatre history and culture
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 50 illustrations, 2 tables
Размер: 236 x 156 x 25
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Theatre direction & production,Music: styles & genres
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre--accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Toms Cabin, Lady Audleys 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.

Mining old manuscripts and newspapers, he finds that starting in the 1790s, theatrical managers in Britain and the United States began to rely on music to play an interpretive role in melodramatic productions. During the nineteenth century, instrumental music--in addition to song--was a common feature in the production of stage plays.

The music played by instrumental ensembles not only enlivened performances but also served other important functions. Many actors and actresses found that accompanimental music helped them sustain the emotional pitch of a monologue or dialogue sequence. Music also helped audiences to identify the motivations of characters. Playwrights used music to hold together the hybrid elements of melodrama, heighten the build toward sensation, and dignify the tragic pathos of villains and other characters. Music also aided manager-directors by providing cues for lighting and other stage effects. Moreover, in a century of seismic social and economic changes, music could provide a moral compass in an uncertain moral universe.

Featuring dozens of musical examples and images of the old theatres, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre charts the progress of the genre from its earliest use in the eighteenth century to the elaborate stage productions of the very early twentieth century.

Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York, Pisani Michael V.