Richard Strauss: Arabella (Cambridge Opera Handbooks) [Hardcover]

Kenneth Birkin (Author)

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Series: Cambridge Opera Handbooks | Publication Date: August 25, 1989

This is the first comprehensive guide to Richard Strauss's Arabella. The opening chapters explore the literary background of the work, and examine the Strauss-Hofmannsthal collaboration. Arabella is seen as the culmination of specific ideas and techniques: an attempt to win something of the subtlety of the spoken theatre for the operatic stage and to find a balance between words and music. A full synopsis of the work provides an insight into the psychological motivation of the drama and an impression of the musical shape and substance of the opera. More detailed analytical comment considers Strauss's 'long-range' tonal procedures and his use of key and Motiv for characterisation, allusion and particular expressive purposes. Special features of this guide are a comentary on one of the Strauss Arabella sketchbooks and an investigation of a series of as yet unpublished letters from Strauss to Böhm, Krauss and Fanto.

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This comprehensive guide to the opera explores its literary background and examines the Strauss-Hofmannsthal collaboration as an attempt to achieve the subtlety of the spoken theater on the operatic stage.

Product Details

Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (August 25, 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521340314
ISBN-13: 978-0521340311
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,219,146 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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First Sentence:
Arabella is the valedictory opus in the Strauss/ Hofmannsthal operatic canon. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
war sehr gut, noch kommt, act finale

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Der Rosenkavalier, Clemens Krauss, Der Fiaker, Della Casa, Der Schwierige, Richard Strauss, Die Frau, Stefan Zweig, Budapest Arabella, Frau von Murska, Lotte Lehmann, Alfred Jerger, Alfred Roller, Gustav Ol�h, Joseph Gregor

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This book cites 26 books:

Der Rosenkavalier: English National Opera Guide 8 (English National Opera Guides) by R. Strauss on 17 pages
Der Schwierige (German Edition) by H Von Hofmannsthal on 8 pages
Jacob Steiner's Gesammelte Werke (AMS Chelsea Publishing) by Jacob Steiner on 4 pages
Der Unbestechliche (German Edition) by Hugo von Hofmannsthal on 4 pages
Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma by Michael Kennedy in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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17 books cite this book:

The Richard Strauss Companion by Mark-Dan Schmid on page 282, and Back Matter
W. A. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (Cambridge Opera Handbooks) by Tim Carter in Front Matter
Vincenzo Bellini: Norma (Cambridge Opera Handbooks) by David R. B. Kimbell in Front Matter
Richard Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer (Cambridge Opera Handbooks) by Thomas Grey in Front Matter
W. A. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (Cambridge Opera Handbooks) by Peter Branscombe in Front Matter

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