The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies (Cambridge Companions to Music) - Softcover

Till, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521671698 ISBN 13: 9780521671699

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

With its powerful combination of music and theatre, opera is one of the most complex and yet immediate of all art forms. Once opera was studied only as 'a stepchild of musicology', but in the past two decades opera studies have experienced an explosion of energy with the introduction of new approaches drawn from disciplines such as social anthropology and performance studies to media theory, genre theory, gender studies and reception history. Written by leading scholars in opera studies today, this Companion offers a wide-ranging guide to a rapidly expanding field of study and new ways of thinking about a rich and intriguing art form, placing opera back at the centre of our understanding of Western culture over the past 400 years. This book gives lovers of opera as well as those studying the subject a comprehensive approach to the many facets of opera in the past and today.

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Review:

'In both the clarity of its organization and the uniformly high standard of the individual essays, this is an outstanding collection.' The Times Literary Supplement

'This is another useful addition to the Cambridge Companions to Music series, this time covering an area of music which has received less scholarly attention than others until the second half of the twentieth century ... This is a scholarly book for the undergraduate or postgraduate student ... although some opera fans of a more academic bent might find it of interest.' Stella Thebridge, Reference Reviews

Book Description:

Opera studies is a rapidly expanding field, bringing exciting new perspectives to a brilliant and complex art form. This book will give lovers of opera as well as those studying the subject a comprehensive approach to the many facets of opera in the past and today.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0521671698
• ISBN 13: 9780521671699
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364