MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

Aram Khachaturian's heritage serves as a source of extensive cultural knowledge. The composer's creative explorations, discoveries, and works vividly reveal the drama of historical transitions and cross-cultural interactions. Consequently, they reveal the lessons of music and the power of art with particular expressiveness. The two most significant sources of creativity – epochal challenges and folk melodies – were …

Reference · Wikidata

style of Western classical music

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transition. Baroque music forms a major portion of the "classical music" canon, and continues to be widely studied, performed, and listened to. Key composers of the Baroque era include Jacopo…

Book · DOAB

In twelve essays, Contemporary Opera in Flux discusses a series of shifts that, taken together, have radically redefined the production and reception of opera. Focusing on productions involving late twentieth- and twenty-first century scores and libretti, the contributors draw on conversations with members of creative teams and studies of archival material, dipping into a historical record that remains in flux as co…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

12 pages.