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Auteur(s) : Link, Nathan
Titre(s) : A poetics of Handel's operas [Texte imprimé] / Nathan Link
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford University press, copyright 2023
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVI-367 p.) : mus. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [331]-345
"A Poetics of Handel's Operas investigates the rich representational fabric of Handel's
stories, drawing upon musicology, narratology, drama, and film in offering a study
with appeal to scholars, producers and performers, opera afficionados, and anyone
fascinated by storytelling. In most storytelling genres, we often distinguish between
the story, on the one hand, and the way that story is represented, on the other, without
a second thought. We know that a character in a film hears neither her own voice-over
nor the ambient music that accompanies it, and that she does not really build a house
from the ground up in the three minutes spanned by the cinematic montage that depict
its construction. In opera, however, many commentators to this day characterize the
medium as "unrealistic," since we know, for example, that people in the real world
do not sing to each other, nor does orchestral music accompany their utterances. This
said, the vocal and orchestral music, while not literally present in the world of
the story surely have a great deal to tell us about the opera's story and its characters,
and if we distinguish the performance we see and hear on the stage and in the orchestra
pit from the story represented, we enable ourselves to construct stories that are
no less coherent than those conveyed by other media. By avoiding conflation of the
story and its representation, we enable ourselves to engage more meaningfully with
the significance of these and many other unique aspects of operatic storytelling."
Sujet(s) : Händel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759). [Opéras]
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-19-765134-6. - ISBN 0197651348 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47266553f
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Table des matières : Introduction ; Song ; Time ; Orchestra ; Character ; Storytellers.
