Music for the melodramatic theatre in nineteenth-century London & New York /

Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre-accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lady Audley's Secret, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, as well as historical romances by Shakespeare and Schiller-than th...

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Main Author: Pisani, Michael V. (Author)
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2014]
Series:Studies in theatre history and culture.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre-accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lady Audley's Secret, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, as well as historical romances by Shakespeare and Schiller-than they did in almost any other area of their lives. But unlike film music, theatrical music has received very little attention from scholars and so it has been largely lost to us. In this groundbreaking study, Michael V. Pisani goes in search of these abandoned sounds.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 386 pages .) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:160938265X (electronic bk.)
9781609382650 (electronic bk.)