Singing in Signs
New Semiotic Explorations of Opera
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 15 April 2020
- ISBN 9780190620622
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 160x236x33 mm
- Weight 726 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 203 musical examples, screen stills, tables, and illus. 0
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Short description:
Singing in Signs: New Semiotic Explorations of Opera offers a bold and refreshing assessment of the state of opera study that engages composer-constructed and work-specific music-semiotic systems, broader socio-cultural music codes, and narrative strategies, with implications for performance and staging practices today.
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Singing in Signs: New Semiotic Explorations of Opera offers a bold and refreshing assessment of the state of opera study as seen through the lens of semiotics. At its core, the volume responds to Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker's Analyzing Opera, utilizing a semiotic framework to embrace opera on its own terms and engage all of its constituent elements in interpretation. Chapters in this collection resurrect the larger sense of serious operatic study as a multi-faceted, interpretive discipline, no longer in isolation. Contributors pay particular attention to the musical, dramatic, cultural, and performative in opera and how these modes can create an intertext that informs interpretation. Combining traditional and emerging methodologies, Singing in Signs engages composer-constructed and work-specific music-semiotic systems, broader socio-cultural music codes, and narrative strategies, with implications for performance and staging practices today.
The prose is clear and accessible, and each essay includes copious notes and a bibliography. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Musical Examples
List of Tables
List of Boxes
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Gregory J. Decker & Matthew R. Shaftel
Part I: Musical Constructions and Interpretation
Chapter 1: Twelve-Tone Serial Techniques in Dallapiccola's Il prigioniero as a Reaction to Fascist Ideology
Jamuna Samuel
Chapter 2: Science, Spirit, Sound, and Sign: Anthroposophy and Viktor Ullmann's Der Sturz des Antichrist
Rachel Bergman
Chapter 3: Motives and Motivations: Linkage Technique in Britten's Operas and Other Vocal Works
Michael Baker
Chapter 4: Sowing the Seeds of Loss: Permanent Interruption in Verdi's Otello
Edward Latham
Part II: Cultural and Conventional Signs
Chapter 5: Dance Music and Signification in Handel's Opera Seria
Gregory J. Decker
Chapter 6: The Romanesca as a Spiritual Sign in the Operas of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
Olga S--nchez-Kisielewska
Chapter 7: Verdi's Dramatic Use of Tonality, Topics, and Recurring Themes: Two Analyses
David Easley
Part III: (Dis)Continuity and Narrative
Chapter 8: Unity and Discontinuity in the Act 2 Finale of Le nozze di Figaro
Matthew R. Shaftel
Chapter 9: Stormy Weather: Issues of Form, Deformation, and Continuity in Operatic Storm Scenes
Deborah Burton
Chapter 10: Song and Sign: Poetic-Musical Strategies in Wagner and Strauss
Arnold Whittall
Chapter 11: Postmodern Opera 101: Irony, Nostalgia, and Bifurcated Narratives
Juan Chattah
Chapter 12: John Adams's The Death of Klinghoffer: Straddling the Fence Between Myth and Realism
Yayoi Uno Everett
Index
