AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Close
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
<a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-26863157_ITM" title="Facts and information about In Search of Opera. (Book Reviews: Diverse Topics).(Book Review)">In Search of Opera. (Book Reviews: Diverse Topics).(Book Review)</a>
Close
Set up an RSS feed that alerts you when new articles from Notes are available.
Frequently asked questions about RSS feeds
In Search of Opera. (Book Reviews: Diverse Topics).(Book Review)
In Search of Opera. By Carolyn Abbate. (Princeton Studies in Opera.) Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. [xvi, 290 p. ISBN 0-691-09003-3-5. $29.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.
Carolyn Abbate confronts the impossible in her latest book: music that human ears cannot hear, which "literally is not present," but that resonates nevertheless through operatic works from the baroque era to the present. Abbate's gruesome "master symbol" for this type of music (Orpheus's dismembered head) colorfully illustrates one of the driving impulses behind In Search of Opera. At the conclusion of the legend, this severed head sings as it floats ...
Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
For more facts and information, see all results
- 5. Yale University Press's new Encyclopedia Of Opera On Screen.(Opera Watch)
- Magazine article from: Opera News Driscoll, F. Paul September 1, 2004 700+ words
5. Yale University Press's new ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OPERA ON SCREEN, by Ken Wlaschin, is a comprehensive...hundreds of films, videos and DVDs featuring opera singers and operas--or even parts of operas--from 1896 to the present day. At more...
- Yale University Press has published The Opera Lover's Companion, an informal...
- Magazine article from: Opera News Driscoll, F. Paul December 1, 2004 700+ words
7. Yale University Press has published THE OPERA LOVER'S COMPANION, an informal guide to 175 operas by sixty-three composers, written by critic and lecturer CHARLES OSBORNE. In addition to background information and brief plot...
- In November, the University Press of Kentucky will publish The Bennetts: an...
- Magazine article from: Opera News Driscoll, F. Paul October 1, 2004 700+ words
3. In November, the University Press of Kentucky will publish THE BENNETTS: AN ACTING FAMILY, by OPERA NEWS features editor BRIAN KELLOW. A biography of film stars JOAN and CONSTANCE BENNETT, their father, Broadway great RICHARD...
- The university press. (The Dean's List).(publishing trends)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Library Journal Cronin, Blaise March 15, 2002 700+ words
...in particular, the university press performs an essential...the necessary magnum opus upon which tenure...a publisher, the university press is an integral part...premature end. The university press has been around for...
- University presses in the marketplace: many - but not all - scholarly...
- Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly Carter, Robert A. Maryles, Daisy May 24, 1991 700+ words
...7000, and some are university press books with trade discounts...Several current university press directors had trade...book on Wagner's operas. Princeton, according...Givler's Ohio State University Press "has had its successes...
- Book of lists: Princeton University Press at 100.(BOOKIES)(interview with...
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Banks, Eric April 1, 2005 700+ words
...at some point address. Princeton University Press's impressive "Goldilocks solution...of A Century in Books: Princeton University Press, 1905-2005, in which editors and...played a role in founding Princeton University Press by providing seed money. How long...
- 'I'll take authoritative reference sources for $1000, Alex.' - Oxford...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 21, 2005 700+ words
...agreement with Oxford University Press -- publishers of the...JEOPARDY! asked Oxford University Press for access to these...Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the 3-volume...com/) "Oxford University Press has an outstanding...
- Best sellers Yale University Press.
- Magazine article from: Apollo March 1, 2005 700+ words
...Comforth (November, 2004), 60 [pounds sterling] The magnum opus of a leading historian of interior decoration. 5 Bloomsbury...fifteenth century. This list is based on UK sales of Yale University Press's art and architecture tries. All titles can be obtained...
- `Let the Bastards Go: From Cuba to Freedom on God's Mercy' by Joe Morris Doss;...
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Gehrke-White, Donna June 4, 2003 700+ words
...From Cuba to Freedom on God's Mercy" (Louisiana State University Press, $34.95) _ chronicles how Frade and the author, now...congregants in their respective dioceses. They ranged from opera singers to church leaders to the wife of a disillusioned communist...
- `Let the Bastards Go: From Cuba to Freedom on God's Mercy' by Joe Morris Doss;...
- News wire article from: Miami Herald (Miami, FL) May 30, 2003 700+ words
...From Cuba to Freedom on God's Mercy" (Louisiana State University Press, $34.95) _ chronicles how Frade and the author, now...congregants in their respective dioceses. They ranged from opera singers to church leaders to the wife of a disillusioned communist...
Source: HighBeam Research, In Search of Opera. (Book Reviews: Diverse Topics).(Book Review)