Some functions of transtextuality proposed by Gérard Genette, the contrasts between certain cultural types addressed by Iuri Lotman, and the presence of symbolic actions and characterizations of the characters within the animated short film Aria (2001), by Pjotr Sapegin. Specifically, it analyze, on the one hand, the semiotic possibilities of the r...
In my monograph I codify musical characteristics that have defined twentieth-century Black American popular vocal music to illustrate the cross-genre influence this music has on living American opera composers, including Anthony Davis, Terrance Blanchard, and myself. To define these musical characteristics, I analyze compositions and recordings fro...
This chapter explores transmediation between qualified media types. It discusses the adaptation of a literary canonical work, Joe Wright’s 2005 novel-to-film adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice a novel that repeatedly has been adapted into new contexts and audiences. The qualified medium of opera implies certain conventions but al...
Ignacio de Luzán wrote the most influential Spanish poetics of the 18th century, at a period when Italian opera occupied an essential place in all the courts of Europe. However, this genre receives marginal treatment in his work. This may be surprising in an author who was not only familiar with the operas performed in Spain during the reigns of Ph...
Published in Musicology Today
Despite the rather pejorative implications that the musical pasticcio has today, it may have been an appreciated art form in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The term pasticcio is clearly derived from the culinary pasticcio, which was a highlight at aristocratic banquets in this time. The mixture of tastes and the spectacular presentation ...
Published in Musicology Today
The article aims at assessing the differences between Hasse's original setting of Metastasio's Siroe in 1733 and the composer's second setting of the same drama, exactly thirty years later, in terms of dramatic, vocal, and musical balance. The two versions will be comprehensively compared with a focus on two main issues. The first is the origin of ...
En la ópera, drama musical, la acción se sitúa gracias a las descripciones de los distintos espacios que aparecen en el texto, pero ¿qué sucede cuando se representa sobre el escenario? Estas indicaciones sirven para entender las intenciones del compositor en su época, sin embargo, con el paso del tiempo, constituyen una guía para que un equipo artí...
Britten’s 1954 opera The Turn of the Screw, based on Henry James’s ghost story, has been described by critics and academics as ‘cinematic’, but little serious academic study has been done to test this. Along with Peter Grimes, The Turn of the Screw is one of the most frequently filmed of Britten’s operas, mostly for television, some using location ...
This thesis examines three approaches to arranging Mozart's operas for Harmonie by Johann Nepomuk Went, Josef Triebensee, and Joseph Heidenreich through an analysis of selections from their arrangements. It consists of two chapters. Chapter One discusses the historical background of the Harmonie ensemble in Vienna and an introduction to the complic...
