The Assassin's Song
Title | The Assassin's Song PDF eBook |
Author | M.G. Vassanji |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 2009-03-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307513556 |
In the aftermath of the brutal violence that gripped western India in 2002, Karsan Dargawalla, heir to Pirbaag – the shrine of a mysterious, medieval sufi – begins to tell the story of his family. His tale opens in the 1960s: young Karsan is next in line after his father to assume lordship of the shrine, but he longs to be “just ordinary.” Despite his father's pleas, Karsan leaves home behind for Harvard, and, eventually, marriage and a career. Not until tragedy strikes, both in Karsan's adopted home in Canada and in Pirbaag, is he drawn back across thirty years of separation and silence to discover what, if anything, is left for him in India.
Assassins
Title | Assassins PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Sondheim |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 130 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781559360388 |
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Song’s Prophet
Title | Song’s Prophet PDF eBook |
Author | P.E. Padilla |
Publisher | Oliver-Heber books |
Total Pages | 416 |
Release | |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
The man behind the prophecy Tsosin Ruus had only ever wanted to pursue his studies and to make his family proud of him. Sometimes life defeats the best of intentions. Caught up in the turmoil of the most turbulent time in the world’s history, the studious mage was forced to engage in warfare on behalf of the Souveni Empire, using magic in defiance of his conscience and beliefs. Causing untold death and destruction. In the midst of the battles and the killing, Tsosin received what would become known as the greatest prophecy in the history of Dizhelim. At an unspecified time, the very existence of the world would be at stake, with dark creatures from another world attempting to end all life, with only one way to survive it. Tsosin Ruus, prophet, archmage, and hero of the War of Magic would need to turn his back on everything that had ever been important to him and dedicate his entire life to preparing for the Days of Darkness, a time he knew would come long after he was dead and gone. This is a companion story to the Song of Prophecy and Hero Academy series. Pick it up today and see where it all started.
Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater
Title | Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater PDF eBook |
Author | Nina Penner |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2020-10-06 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0253049989 |
Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is the first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories. Through examples from opera's origins to contemporary musicals, Nina Penner examines the roles of character-narrators and how they differ from those in literary and cinematic works, how music can orient spectators to characters' points of view, how being privy to characters' inner thoughts and feelings may evoke feelings of sympathy or empathy, and how performers' choices affect not only who is telling the story but what story is being told. Unique about Penner's approach is her engagement with current work in analytic philosophy. Her study reveals not only the resources this philosophical tradition can bring to musicology but those which musicology can bring to philosophy, challenging and refining accounts of narrative, point of view, and the work-performance relationship within both disciplines. She also considers practical problems singers and directors confront on a daily basis, such as what to do about Wagner's Jewish caricatures and the racism of Orientalist operas. More generally, Penner reflects on how centuries-old works remain meaningful to contemporary audiences and have the power to attract new, more diverse audiences to opera and musical theater. By exploring how practitioners past and present have addressed these issues, Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater offers suggestions for how opera and musical theater can continue to entertain and enrich the lives of 21st-century audiences.
Researching the Song:A Lexicon
Title | Researching the Song:A Lexicon PDF eBook |
Author | Shirlee Emmons |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 523 |
Release | 2005-12-22 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0198034695 |
Contains more than 2,000 entries that supply information on the mythological, historical, geographical, and literary references contained in western art song. This lexicon helps singers and accompanists enhance their performances of songs, by providing them with the background on the many references embedded in this vast repertoire.
Tyranny and Music
Title | Tyranny and Music PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph E. Morgan |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Total Pages | 282 |
Release | 2017-12-26 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 149854682X |
Approaching the topic from several subdisciplinary points of view within music studies, this edited collection addresses the role that music plays in opposing tyranny or solidifying tyrannical power around the world.
The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia
Title | The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Pender |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 654 |
Release | 2021-04-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1538115875 |
Praise from Jesse Green, New York Times Chief Theater Critic, Arts, in the 2023 Holiday Gift Guide: “From A (the director George Abbott) to Y ('You Could Drive a Person Crazy'), The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia, by Rick Pender, offers an astonishingly comprehensive look, in more than 130 entries, at the late master’s colleagues, songs, shows and methods." The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia is a wonderfully detailed and comprehensive reference devoted to musical theater’s most prolific and admired composer and lyricist. Entries cover Sondheim’s numerous collaborators, from composers and directors to designers and orchestras; key songs, such as his Academy Award winner “Sooner or Later” (Dick Tracy); and major works, including Assassins, Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, and West Side Story. The encyclopedia also profiles the actors who originated roles and sang Sondheim’s songs for the first time, including Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Mandy Patinkin, and Bernadette Peters. Featuring a detailed biographical entry for Sondheim, a chronology of his career, a listing of his many awards, and discussions of his opinions on movies, opera, and more, this wide-ranging resource will attract musical theater enthusiasts again and again.