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L'opéra est un spectacle à part : il invite tous les arts, propose l'alliance du texte et de la musique, attire aussi les plus grands artistes de l'époque pour sa mise en scène, pour ses décors. L'opéra est un bâtiment à part : c'est un des lieux les plus prestigieux des grandes villes, un marqueur social de la cité. L'opéra est une entreprise collective : des chanteurs aux techniciens, du chef d'orchestre aux musiciens, chacun œuvre à la réussite de la représentation. L'opéra est exigent : il demande à son public de connaître ses rituels et d'adhérer à toute une série de conventions radicales – sur scène, tout le monde chante et tout est chanté – pour s'abandonner à ses délices. De la « fosse » jusqu'aux « décors », des « répétitions » à la « première », Philippe Jordan nous invite à découvrir toutes les dimensions de l'opéra. Éclairant les traditions de ce genre musical au prisme de sa propre expérience, il nous dévoile aussi sa conception de la direction d'orchestre, de la relation au public, aux chanteurs ou encore aux metteurs en scène, etc., de l'opéra en somme.

Music --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Music Literature

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Jazz --- History and criticism --- Music Literature

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This landmark collection makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of broadside ballad study by investigating the hitherto unexplored treasure-trove of over 100,000 Central/Eastern European broadside ballads of the Czech Republic, from the 16th to the 19th century. Viewing Czech broadside ballads from an interdisciplinary perspective, we see them as unique and regional cultural phenomena: from their production and collecting processes to their musicology, linguistics, preservation, and more. At the same time, as contributors note, when viewed within a larger perspective—extending one’s gaze to take in ballad production in bordering lands (such as Germany, Poland, and Slovakia) and as far Northwest as Britain to as far Southwest as Brazil—we discover an international phenomenon at work. Czech printed ballads, we see, participated in a thriving popular culture of broadside ballads that spoke through text, art, and song to varied interests of the masses, especially the poor, worldwide.

European history --- General & world history --- Broadside ballads, popular culture, history, music, literature --- Broadside ballads, popular culture, history, music, literature

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Popular music --- Music --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Music Literature --- Musique populaire --- Encyclopedias --- Encyclopédies --- Encyclopedias.

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Ancient Greece was permeated by music, and the literature teems with musical allusions. For most readers the subject has remained a closed book. Here at last is a clear, comprehensive, and authoritative account that presupposes no special knowledge of music. Topics covered include the place of music in Greek life; instruments; rhythm; tempo; modes and scales; melodic construction; form; ancient theory and notation; and historical development. Thirty surviving examples of Greek music are presented in modern transcription with analysis, and the book is fully illustrated with plates and diagrams. Besides being considered on its own terms, Greek music is here further illuminated by being seen in ethnological perspective, and a brief Epilogue sets it in its place in a border zone between Afro-Asiatic and European culture. The book will be of value both to classicists and historians of music.

Music, Greek and Roman --- Music --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Music Literature --- History and criticism. --- Greece