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Performing Arts and Technical Issues
, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 480 pages, Size:215 x 260 mm, Illustrations:15 b/w, Language(s):English, French, Italian. ISBN 9782503597393.
Summary This volume addresses multiple facets of the artistic expression of a live performance, with a particular focus on the technical issues, people, and institutions related to it. Dance, musical theatre, mime, puppetry, and other performing arts are investigated through the lens of their various components, as well as their protagonists ? impresarios, companies, designers, conductors and directors. Specific sections of the book are devoted to lighting, scenography and costume design, staging, but also on circus, puppetry, dance, and entertainers. A number of articles are dedicated to single artists: Diaghilev, Massenet, Pacini, Poulenc, Verdi, and Wagner. With contributions by (in alphabetical order): Mathias Auclair, Rapha l Bortolotti, Michael Burden, Maria Birbili, Simone Ciolfi, Francesc Cortes, Mar a Encina Cortizo, Nathalie Coutelet, Petra Dotlacilova, Catrina Flint, Federico Gon, Vesa Kurkela, J rgen Maehder, Scott Palmer, Bertrand Porot, Manuela Rita, Ram n Sobrino, Valeriya Zharkova. TABLE OF CONTENTS Roberto Illiano Preface Performing Arts: Puppetry, Circus, Dance, Entertainers Catrina Flint de M dicis From Provence to Montmartre: Setting the Stage for Maurice Bouchor's Little Wooden Actors Bertrand Porot Les jeux des foires au xviiie si cle: les spectacles d'acrobate Nathalie Coutelet Les pantomimes nautiques du Nouveau-Cirque ou les pouvoirs spectaculaires de l'eau Mathias Auclair Les f tes galantes 1923 : Les Biches et le festival fran ais des Ballets russes Vesa Kurkela Miscellany and the Great Split: Itinerant Entertainers in 19th-Century Helsinki Technical Issues: Stage Lighting Scott Palmer A Staging Revolution through Light and Music: Adolphe Appia, Wagner and Hugo B hr Mar a Encina Cortizo - Ram n Sobrino Luis Par s, director de escena en el Teatro Real de Madrid: de la escenograf a iluminada a la creaci n de una po tica de la luz escenogr fica (1896-1907) Francesc Cort s Los proyectos para una renovaci n esc nica del G. T. del Liceu en el cambio de siglo (xix-xx): mirando al futuro J rgen Maehder The Early History of Laser Rays on the Opera Stage: Munich - London - Geneva - (Paris) - Bayreuth Scenography and Costumes Design Rapha l Bortolotti Les d cors et machines originaux du th tre de Feltre: Enjeux techniques d'une sc ne de province dans l'Italie du xix me si cle Valeriya Zharkova Principles of Creating a Scenic Image in the Op ra-Comique. Theatre in the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century Federico Gon ?I am satisfied that what is written will be done simply and exactely : Reflections on inventing the truth in Rigoletto's Staging Petra Dotla?ilov Visible and Invisible Hands: Costume-Making Practices of Italian Music Theatre in the Early Modern Era Staging Simone Ciolfi 'Verisimilitude', 'Simplicity', 'Naturalness': Cultural Background and Performance Strategies of Eighteenth-century Cantata Recitatives Michael Burden Put upon the stage as no opera I have ever seen for truth : The London Staging of Pacini's Saffo in 1843 Manuela Rita Le disposizioni sceniche per Il re di Lahore ed Erodiade: La prassi della messinscena teatrale nel contesto delle relazioni Italia-Francia nella Terza Repubblica Maria Birbili Multimediality, Special Effects, and Precursory Film Techniques in the Staging of French grand op ra: The Composer as a Stage Director Abstracts and Biographies Appendix Index of Names
Music and the Figurative Arts in the Nineteenth Century
, Brepols 2020, 2020 Hardcover, .xiv + 527 p., 0 b/w ill., 20 col. ills 210 x 270 mm , English, ISBN 9782503589510.
This book explores the relationship between music and the figurative arts in the XIX century. In 1795 Friedrich Schiller wrote: Die bildende Kunst in ihrer h chsten Vollendung muss Musik werden und uns durch unmittelbare sinnliche Gegenwart r hren (Schiller, ber die sthetische Erziehung des Menschen, Letter XXII, 1795). This sentence underlines the fundamental aesthetic change that coincided at the onset of the nineteenth century. According to ut musica pictura , music becomes the model for an art able to express and communicate feelings. Even as music no longer necessarily has to embody order, so does painting move away from pure imitation to encompass emotional affect. Music and painting thus converge in embodying a sensual conception of the arts: music is capable of expressing emotions and arousing them in the audience; painting can do the same through visual perception. The present volume, which brings together 21 essays, focuses on encounters between composers and painters, but also on the relationship between music, literature and the figurative arts, as well as on the concurrence of musical and artistic aesthetics. Sections of the book are devoted to iconography, to the relationship with the theatrical arts (in particular the scenic aspect) and in one instance, to Franz Liszt. ROBERTO ILLIANO is General Secretary of the Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini (Lucca) and President of the Italian National Edition of Muzio Clementi?s Complete Works. He is also a member of the scholarly committee of the Italian National Edition of Luigi Boccherini?s Complete Works. A founder of the journal Ad Parnassum , he has published a variety of writings on 19th- and 20th-century music, in particular on Luigi Dallapiccola and Italian music under Italian fascism.
Sound, Music and Architecture
, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 440 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:125 b/w, 16 col., 15 tables b/w., 16 musical examples, Language(s):English, Spanish, Italian. ISBN 9782503611839.
Summary This book traces the relationship between sound, music and architecture from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. The first part of this volume deals with the physical relationship between music and architecture, focussing on the intersection between rite, sound and architecture in ecclesiastical spaces such as the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, the churches of medieval Sicily, the liturgical spaces of 15th-17th-century France and the Roman churches in the Baroque era. A substantial article by Richard B sel presents a comprehensive panorama of music rooms and concert halls, starting from the archetypes conceived in the Early Modern Age and concluding with their present-day configurations. The last article of this section is dedicated to the Festspielhaus located in Hellerau (Dresden), based on the documentary sources and the writing of the protagonists, in particular mile Jaques-Dalcroze and Adolphe Appia. The theme continues in the second part of the book with the examination of the historical relationship between architecture and acoustic knowledge in the age of modernity. Moreover, the following chapter explores the architectural idea of designing for musical tone as it found expression in the early decades of the twentieth century. The last two articles of this section explore Leo Beranek's research regarding the quality of musical spaces in the history of modern science, and the experimentations of the architect Bernard Leitner with his Soundcube. The last part of the book will focus on Music as an 'art of space', exploring installations and musical experimentations by composers such as Xenakis, Jean-Luc Herv and John Chowning. TABLE OF CONTENTS The Physical Relationship between Music and Architecture 1. Vasco Zara, The Phantom of Notre-Dame: Music, Architecture, Acoustics, and the Origins of the Notre-Dame Polyphony 2. Thomas Dittelbach - Tobias Christian Wei mann, Aural Architecture in Medieval Sicily: Architecture, Music and Acoustics of Siculo-Norman Churches 3. Jean-Christop he Vali re - B n dicte Bertholon, Location of Acoustic Pots in the Liturgical Space: Functional, Symbolic, Musical and Acoustic Interpretation 4. Galliano Ciliberti, Progetti per cupole sonore. Strutture architettoniche e articolazione direzionale della musica liturgica negli spazi delle chiese barocche romane 5. Richard B sel, 'Soundful Venues': Music Rooms, Concert Halls, and More 6. Guillem Aloy-Bibiloni - Antoni Ramon Graells - Laia Montserrat-Cort zar: Hellerau, espacio de encuentros: Adolphe Appia y mile Jaques-Dalcroze Sound Architecture 7. Edward J. Gillin - Fanny Gribensky, Sound Architecture: Music, Speech, and the Science of Acoustics in the Age of Modernity 8. Fiona Smyth, ?Mysterious changes in molecular structure? : Pragmatics, Poetics and Designing for Musical Tone 9. Sabine von Fischer, Confidential Rankings: The Rating of Experience, and Why the List of the Best Concert Halls Was Kept a Secret 10. Sven Sterken: Architecture without Walls: Bernhard Leitner's Sound Cube Music as an Art of Space 11. Makis Solomos, Xenakis's Polytopes and the Diatope 12. Marta Llorente Diaz, Ritmo: medida del tiempo, medida del mundo. M sica y arquitectura, una colaboraci n entre Iannis Xenakis y Le Corbusier 13. Candida Felici, Building Bio-Spaces through Music: Metamorphosis and Illusionary Space in Germination by Jean-Luc Herv 14. Laura Zattra - Fran ois-Xavier F ron, A History of the First Computer Sound Spatialisation System: John Chowning's Investigations at Stanford University (1962-1972)
