The Opera Orchestra in 18th and 19th Century Europe

II: The Orchestra in the Theatre - Composers, Works and Performance

Niels M Jensen, Franco Piperno (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

387 Seiten

2008 | 1., Aufl.
Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag
978-3-8305-1488-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The Orchestra in the Theatre Composers, Works, and Performance is part two of thepublication The Opera Orchestra in 18th- and 19th- Century Europe. It deals with theopera orchestra in the theatre and opera house, that is to say, as an institution withinan institution; it sheds light on the encounters of different orchestras with certaininnovative and demanding operas; and it studies the interrelation between orchestrasand operas by analysing what happened to an opera when it was played by anorchestra that differed substantially from the one for which the opera was conceived orto put it another way, what happened to the structure of an orchestra when itperformed an opera with an atypical or unusually large instrumentation. Thanks to theircirculation and performance (i.e. representation) on stages all across Europe, suchoperas made an important impact on the opera orchestras that had to perform them andthat were challenged by their demands. These operas sometimes served as the stimulusfor the renewal of an opera orchestra, because of the necessary changes most oftenincreases in instrumental resources; but case studies will also show that such changesdid not always have a lasting impact on orchestral practices or the constitution of anopera orchestra, but that they sometimes were only temporary, for the duration of aparticular production. However, all this testifies to the fact that apparently stableorchestral institutions underwent internal changes caused by musical transfer andmusical representation.The institutionalization of opera orchestras involves the concepts and terms of stability and discipline . It would seem that this transformation depended on that of the operahouse, but, even though the orchestra was an essential partner in the performance ofoperas, there were cases in which the institutional stability of theatres did not imply thatof the orchestra.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.3.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Musical Life in Europe 1600-1900 Circulation Institutions Representation ; 8
• Zusatzinfo: schw.-w. Abb.
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 153 x 227 mm
• Gewicht: 634 g
• Einbandart: gebunden
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 18. Jahrhundert, Musik; Oper • 19. Jahrhundert, Musik; Oper • HC/Musik/Musikgeschichte • Hofkapelle • italian opera • Mitteleuropa, Musik • Mitteleuropa / Zentraleuropa, Musik • Opernorchester • Theater
• ISBN-10: 3-8305-1488-3 / 3830514883
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8305-1488-6 / 9783830514886
• Zustand: Neuware