Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York.

By:

Pisani, Michael V

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies Theatre Hist & CulturePublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (415 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781609382650
160938265X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York.DDC classification:

792/.0973/09034

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PN2248

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Contents:

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Forging a New Musico-Dramatic Genre; 1. The Eighteenth-Century Roots of Melos; 2. The Rise of Melodrama in the Age of Revolution; 3. The Early Popular Drama in the Public Theatres; Part Two: Propagating the Popular Drama; 4. The Anglo-American Melodrama and Its Music; 5. Victorian Theatre Bands and Their Leaders; 6. The Craft of Melos in Rehearsal and Performance; 7. Music, Suspense, and the Sensation Drama; Part Three: Transforming the Popular Drama; 8. Melos in Crisis; 9. Nationalism, "Prestige Music," and Irving's Lyceum.

10. Melodrama and Glamour at Century's EndConclusion. The Legacy of Melos; Notes; Index.

Summary: 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 sound.

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10. Melodrama and Glamour at Century's EndConclusion. The Legacy of Melos; Notes; Index.

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 sound.

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