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Carmen abroad : Bizet's opera on the global stage
\"This book was born out of a previous collaboration on Carmen between its two editors: their work on the Peters Edition of the opera. Styled as a 'Performance Urtext' this edition focussed on bringing to the printed page not only the musical text, but also many of the details of how Carmen was first performed. Both editors had thus gone through every bar of the opera with a fine-tooth comb: some sort of follow-up seemed inevitable. The idea of a book on 'Carmen abroad' was hatched, focussed - like the edition of its performance. From the outset we were encouraged by the enthusiastic reception of the idea by Cambridge University Press and we began to approach potential contributors. Then the project trifurcated: not only would we have a book, we would somehow bring together contributors in a conference, and we would have a website. At first an international online video-conference was envisaged but practicalities - not least of time-zone differences - proved insurmountable. An International Initiatives Grant from Cardiff University and a Music & Letters Trust award provided the answer by providing funding for a two-day academic conference which would not have come into being without the energy, fruitful exchanges and support of all our collaborators\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Nineteenth-Century Choral Music
Nineteenth-Century Choral Music is an in-depth examination of the rich repertoire of choral music and the cultural phenomenon of choral music making throughout the period. The book is divided into three main sections. The first details the attraction to choral singing and the ways it was linked to different parts of society, and to the role of choral voices in the two principal large-scale genres of the period: the symphony and opera. A second section highlights ten choral-orchestral masterworks that are a central part of the repertoire. The final section presents overview and focus chapters covering composers, repertoire (both small and larger works), and performance life in an historical context from over a dozen regions of the world: Britain and Ireland, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latin America, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia and Finland, Spain, and the United States.
This diverse collection of essays brings together the work of 25 authors, many of whom have devoted much of their scholarly lives to the composers and music discussed, giving the reader a lively and unique perspective on this significant part of nineteenth-century musical life.
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