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Embodying Voice

Singing Verdi, Singing Wagner

By: Margaret Medlyn

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Embodying Voice

Singing Verdi, Singing Wagner

By: Margaret Medlyn

Embodying Voice: Singing Verdi, Singing Wagner articulates the process of developing an operatic voice, explaining how and why the training of such a voice is as complex and sophisticated as it is mysterious. This book illustrates how putting together a voice, embodying a sound, and creating a character are vital to an audience’s emotional involvement and enjoyment. Moreover, it addresses an imbalance of power between the opera director and the orchestra conductor – ultimately, it is the communicative power of the singer’s voice that brings life to an opera, a fact well known by Verdi and Wagner. Embodying Voice highlights the singer’s creative agency to be co-creator of the composer’s music. It explores the ways in which vocal performance is constructed and controlled, connecting layers of mind and bodily engagement that allow operatic singers to achieve expression beyond the text itself. Further reading, listening, and performance lists are provided at the end of each chapter, complemented by musical examples throughout.

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Routledge

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0429999224

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Operas in English

A Dictionary

By: Margaret Ross Griffel

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Operas in English

A Dictionary

By: Margaret Ross Griffel

Although many opera dictionaries and encyclopedias are available, very few are devoted exclusively to operas in a single language. In this revised and expanded edition of Operas in English: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel brings up to date her original work on operas written specifically to an English text (including works both originally prepared in English, as well as English translations). Since its original publication in 1999, Griffel has added nearly 800 entries to the 4,300 from the original volume, covering the world of opera in the English language from 1634 through 2011. Listed alphabetically by letter, each opera entry includes alternative titles, if any; a full, descriptive title; the number of acts; the composer’s name; the librettist’s name, the original language of the libretto, and the original source of the text, with the source title; the date, place, and cast of the first performance; the date of composition, if it occurred substantially earlier than the premiere date; similar information for the first U.S. (including colonial) and British (i.e., in England, Scotland, or Wales) performances, where applicable; a brief plot summary; the main characters (names and vocal ranges, where known); some of the especially noteworthy numbers cited by name; comments on special musical problems, techniques, or other significant aspects; and other settings of the text, including non-English ones, and/or other operas involving the same story or characters (cross references are indicated by asterisks). Entries also include such information as first and critical editions of the score and libretto; a bibliography, ranging from scholarly studies to more informal journal articles and reviews; a discography; and information on video recordings. Griffel also includes four appendixes, a selective bibliography, and two indexes. The first appendix lists composers, their places and years of birth and death, and their operas included in the text as entries; the second does the same for librettists; the third records authors whose works inspired or were adapted for the librettos; and the fourth comprises a chronological listing of the A–Z entries, including as well as the date of first performance, the city of the premiere, the short title of the opera, and the composer. Griffel also include a main character index and an index of singers, conductors, producers, and other key figures.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810883252

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Embodying Voice

Singing Verdi, Singing Wagner

By: Margaret Medlyn

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Singing Verdi, Singing Wagner

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Margaret Mead

The Complete Bibliography, 1925-1975

By: Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead

The Complete Bibliography, 1925-1975

By: Margaret Mead

The book contains a full bibliography, missing only the last few years, and an introduction by Mead on her writings.

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Walter de Gruyter

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9027930260

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Family Vista

The Memoirs of Margaret Chanler Aldrich

By: Margaret Chanler Aldrich

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The Memoirs of Margaret Chanler Aldrich

By: Margaret Chanler Aldrich

First published in 1958, these are the memoirs of Margaret Chanler Aldrich, a descendant of the prominent Astor family. A nurse for the American Red Cross during the Spanish-American War, and later the Philippine-American War, Aldrich joined the woman’s suffrage movement and became notable as one of Carrie Chapman Catt’s capable officials in the campaign for suffrage in New York State. A fascinating autobiography!

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343

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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178912767X

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Before Scarlett

Girlhood Writings of Margaret Mitchell

By: Margaret Mitchell

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Girlhood Writings of Margaret Mitchell

By: Margaret Mitchell

A unique compilation of childhood writings by the acclaimed author of Gone With the Wind features short stories, fairy tales, journal entries, essays, and single-act plays, all penned from age eight to seventeen.

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1570039380

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Dr. Lavendar's People by Margaret Deland. Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock

By: Margaret Wade Deland

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Dr. Lavendar's People by Margaret Deland. Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock

By: Margaret Wade Deland

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Legare Street Press

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101920057X

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Margaret Mcfarlane Davidson

Daughter of Immigrants; Mother of American Industrialists

By: Margaret L. Sullivan

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Margaret Mcfarlane Davidson

Daughter of Immigrants; Mother of American Industrialists

By: Margaret L. Sullivan

It is the story of Margaret McFarlane Davidson's early life and her later years on Lake Ripley, Wisconsin. Born in 1843 at a neighbor's house, orphaned at 14, she became a domestic worker in both Madison and Milwaukee. It captures her life-long connection to Lake Ripley and the original Scottish settles in and around Cambridge, Wisconsin. Using primary resource material, the book is a study of a young woman in the Wisconsin Territory. It documents her maternal family history, the McLay family, back to Scotland. It also touches on her father's history in Scotland. The story explores her courtship and marriage to William Davidson. All her children and their birth dates are included. The book also addresses Arthur Davidson and his sisters Janette Mae Davidson and Elizabeth Davidson Marx and their long connection to Lake Ripley. The book introduces you to James McLay, the uncle who provided Arthur, William, and Walter Davidson with the loan they needed to launch the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Company but does not include any other history on their company. It is Margaret McFarlane Davidson's story.

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Dr. Lavendar's People by Margaret Deland. Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock

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