The Cambridge companion to Gilbert and Sullivan / edited by David Eden and Meinhard Saremba.
Series: Cambridge companions to musicPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. Description: xiii, 274 p. : ill., music ; 26 cmISBN: 9780521888493 (hbk); 0521888492 (hbk); 9780521716598 (pbk); 0521716594 (pbk)Subject(s): Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900. Operas | Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911 -- Criticism and interpretationDDC classification: 782.1/20922 LOC classification: ML 410 .S95 | C35 2009Online resources: Contributor biographical information Online Access | Publisher description Online Access | Table of contents only Notre Dame Online AccessItem type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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Book-Circulating | Fischer Hall Library Main shelves | ML410. S95C35 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | B014766 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Background: -- Savoy opera and its discontents: the theatrical background to a quarrel / David Eden -- Identity crisis and the search for English opera: the Savoy Theatre in the 1890s / William Parry -- Resituating Gilbert and Sullivan: the musical and aesthetic context / Benedict Taylor -- 'We sing as one individual'?: popular misconceptions of 'Gilbert and Sullivan' / Meinhard Saremba -- Part II. Focus: -- The operas in context: stylistic elements - the Savoy and beyond / Richard Silverman -- The librettos in context: Gilbert's 'Fables in Song' / Horst Dölvers -- 'This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter': patter songs and the word-music relationship / Laura Kasson Fiss -- Standing still and moving forward: The Mikado, Haddon Hall, and concepts of time in the Savoy operas / Michael Beckerman -- Musical contexts I: motives and methods in Sullivan's allusions / James Brooks Kuykendall -- Musical contexts II: characterisation and emotion in the Savoy operas / Martin T. Yates -- Part III. Reception: -- Topsy-Turvy: a personal journey / Mike Leigh -- Amateur tenors and choruses in public: the amateur scene / Ian Bradley -- Champions and aficionados: amateur and listener experiences of the Savoy operas in performance / Stephanie Pitts -- 'How great thy charm, thy sway how excellent!': tracing Gilbert and Sullivan's legacy in the American musical / Raymond Knapp -- 'See how the Fates their gifts allot': the reception of productions and translations in continental Europe / Jana Polianovskaia -- Part IV. Into the Twenty-First Century: -- Adventures in musical detection: scholarship, editions, productions and the future of the Savoy operas / David Russell Hulme -- Appendix 1: Who wrote the overtures? -- Appendix 2: Stage and choral works by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert -- Appendix 3: Modern editions of works by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert.
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