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A comprehensive opera-guide, featuring Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis.
Operas --- Opera --- Opera plots --- Opera stories --- Operetta --- Stories of operas --- Stories of operettas --- Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) --- Gershwin, George, --- Heyward, DuBose, --- Heyward, Dorothy, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935. In this comprehensive account, Ellen Noonan examines the opera's long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of twentieth-century American expectations about race, culture, and the struggle for equality. In its surprising endurance lies a myriad of local, national, and international stories.For black performers and commentators, Porgy and Bess was a nexus for debates about cultural representation and
African Americans in popular culture --- Race in opera. --- Music and race. --- Afro-Americans in popular culture --- Popular culture --- Opera --- Race and music --- Race --- Heyward, DuBose, --- Gershwin, George, --- Charleston (S.C.) --- City of Charleston (S.C.) --- Charles-Town (S.C.) --- Race relations. --- Heyward, Dorothy,
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Drawing on the fields of dramaturgy, music theory, and historical musicology, this book answers a question about twentieth-century music: Why does tonality persist in opera, even after it has been abandoned in other genres?
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990. Tender land. --- Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Porgy and Bess. --- Joplin, Scott, 1868-1917. Treemonisha. --- Opera -- United States -- 20th century. --- Operas -- Analysis, appreciation. --- Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. Street scene. --- Operas --- Opera --- Music --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Music Instruction & Study --- Analysis, appreciation --- Analysis, appreciation. --- Joplin, Scott, --- Weill, Kurt, --- Gershwin, George, --- Copland, Aaron, --- Comic opera --- Lyric drama --- Opera, Comic --- History and criticism --- Drama --- Dramatic music --- Singspiel --- Heyward, DuBose, --- Heyward, Dorothy, --- Cadence --- George Gershwin --- Konstantin Stanislavski --- Kurt Weill --- Primary tone --- Tonic (music) --- Treemonisha --- Voice leading
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