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Contextualizing Melodrama in the Czech Lands: In Concert and on Stage book cover

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Contextualizing Melodrama in the Czech Lands In Concert and on Stage

By Judith Mabary Copyright 2020
260 Pages 56 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 56 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 56 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The mention of the term "melodrama" is likely to evoke a response from laymen and musicians alike that betrays an acquaintance only with the popular form of the genre and its greatly heightened drama, exaggerated often to the point of the ridiculous. Few are aware that there exists a type of melodrama that contains in its smaller forms the beauty of the sung ballad and, in the larger-scale... Read more

1. The Musical Melodrama: Rationality Overruled;  2. The Path to Benda’s Melodramas: From the Jesuit Schuldrama through Rousseau’s Experiment in Pygmalion;  3. A Place in the Theatre: The Impact of Jiří Benda and the Seyler Company on Melodrama;  4. The Sacred and the Profane: Melodrama in Prague;  5. From Paris and the Boulevard du Crime to Prague’s Estates Theatre: Tracing the Popular Melodrama;  6. Zdeněk Fibich and the Revitalization of the Classical Melodrama;  7. Fibich’s Concert Melodramas: A Closer Look;  8. Fibich’s Hippodamie: Melodrama for the Dramatic Stage;  9. Epilogue

Biography

Judith A. Mabary is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Her research interests center on Czech music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, namely the life and works of Antonín Dvořák, Zdeňek Fibich, Bohuslav Martinů, and Vítězslava Kaprálová as well as the genre of Czech melodrama.

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