Melodramatic Voices
Download or Read eBook Melodramatic Voices PDF written by Sarah Hibberd and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Sarah Hibberd |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : 1409400824 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781409400820 |
Rating | : 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Melodramatic Voices by : Sarah Hibberd
Book excerpt: The genre of mélodrame à grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. The premise of this volume is the idea that the melodramatic aesthetic is central to our understanding of nineteenth-century music drama, broadly defined as spoken plays with music, operas and other hybrid genres that combine music with text and/or image.