34 research outputs found
Abstract: Overriding the Autograph Score: The Problem of Textual Authority in Verdi\u27s \u27Falstaff\u27
Abstract: Entrances, Set Pieces, and Exits: Reflections on the Structure of Verdi\u27s Otello
Abstract for a paper given at a joint meeting of the American Institute for Verdi Studies and the Greater New York chapter of the American Musicological Society, Feb. 4, 1989
Abstract: Compositional Emendations in Verdi\u27s Autograph Scores: Il trovatore, La traviata, Un ballo in maschera
Graduate Sessions 6: Televisuality
The Televisuality symposium was organized by Jon Yoder and the students of Architectural Theory + Design Research, a core component to the graduate curriculum in the School of Architecture
Abstracts
Abstracts of papers about Giuseppe Verdi and his works, presented at joint meetings of the AIVS and Greater NY Chapter of the American Musicological Society, 1979-81 (Hepokoski, Lawton, Chusid, Hornick, Nádas, Tomlinson, Garrison, Powers), at the 1982 national meeting of the American Musicological Society (Harwood), and at an NEH-sponsored summer seminar at NYU in 1980 (Beams, Cole, Cordell, Davis, Fry, King, Mason, McCauley, Town)
Unsound Seeds
With this image of a curtain hiding and at the same time heightening some terrible secret, Max Kalbeck began his review of the first Viennese performance of Richard Strauss’s Salome. Theodor W. Adorno picked up the image of the curtain in the context of Strauss’s fabled skill at composing non-musical events, when he identified the opening flourish of Strauss’s Salome as the swooshing sound of the rising curtain. If this is so, the succès de scandale of the opera was achieved, in more than one sense, as soon as the curtain rose at Dresden’s Semperoper on 10 December 1905.
Critics of the premiere noted that the opera set ‘boundless wildness and degeneration to music’; it brought ‘high decadence’ onto the operatic stage; a ‘composition of hysteria’, reflecting the ‘disease of our time’, Salome is ‘hardly music any more’.The outrage did not end there