This dissertation presents the first theoretical model for understanding narration and point of view in opera, examining repertoire from Richard Wagner to Benjamin Britten. Prior music scholarship on musical narratives and narrativity has drawn primarily on continental literary theory and philosophy of the 1960s to the middle of the 1980s. This study, by contrast, engages with current debates in the analytic branch of aesthetic philosophy. One reason why the concept of point of view has not been more extensively explored in opera studies is the widespread belief that operas are not narratives. This study questions key premises on which this assumption rests. In so doing, it presents a new definition of narrative. Arguably, a narrative is a...
Opera is about people in conflict, sung, played and performed in non-realistic fashion; it does not ...
This thesis addresses a two-fold proposition: that Giuseppe Verdi used the term 'posizione' as a con...
The present paper forms part of a complex research project based on a closed-reading approach I am c...
This dissertation presents the first theoretical model for understanding narration and point of view...
This paper concerns the ontological status and authorship of the music in opera, refining and expan...
Zusammenfassung zur 1998 von der Universität Vilnius angenommenen Dissertation von Inga Jankauskien
There are common themes that performers investigate in evaluating a character. They include: the his...
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Benjamin Britten's operas remain in the opera repertor...
Writers from diverse disciplines have rhapsodised over the impact of the operatic voice on the liste...
Often overlooked in musical analysis, the performer plays an important role in the recreation of mus...
Opera conventionally focuses on the vocal music aspect of performance. This paper is instead concern...
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Th...
In this dissertation, Pierre Bartholomée's operas composed after Henry Bauchau's novels are studied ...
In recent years, narrative theory has been an influential model for many writers on music. Things in...
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1994.The process of metaphrasis denotes the translation ...
Opera is about people in conflict, sung, played and performed in non-realistic fashion; it does not ...
This thesis addresses a two-fold proposition: that Giuseppe Verdi used the term 'posizione' as a con...
The present paper forms part of a complex research project based on a closed-reading approach I am c...
This dissertation presents the first theoretical model for understanding narration and point of view...
This paper concerns the ontological status and authorship of the music in opera, refining and expan...
Zusammenfassung zur 1998 von der Universität Vilnius angenommenen Dissertation von Inga Jankauskien
There are common themes that performers investigate in evaluating a character. They include: the his...
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Benjamin Britten's operas remain in the opera repertor...
Writers from diverse disciplines have rhapsodised over the impact of the operatic voice on the liste...
Often overlooked in musical analysis, the performer plays an important role in the recreation of mus...
Opera conventionally focuses on the vocal music aspect of performance. This paper is instead concern...
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Th...
In this dissertation, Pierre Bartholomée's operas composed after Henry Bauchau's novels are studied ...
In recent years, narrative theory has been an influential model for many writers on music. Things in...
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1994.The process of metaphrasis denotes the translation ...
Opera is about people in conflict, sung, played and performed in non-realistic fashion; it does not ...
This thesis addresses a two-fold proposition: that Giuseppe Verdi used the term 'posizione' as a con...
The present paper forms part of a complex research project based on a closed-reading approach I am c...