Authors:Professor Marcia J. Citron, Marcia J. Citron,
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: screen, opera
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2000-05
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0300081588
ISBN-13: 9780300081589

What happens to opera when it’s presented on the screen? How does an opera change when it becomes a movie, a television presentation, or a video? This book is the first to explore opera and its treatment on the screen from a musicologist’s perspective. Marcia Citron provides a fascinating history of the nearly 100-year-old genre, examines landmark works of opera on screen from a variety of viewpoints, and shows how different electronic media shape the conception of this art form. The book begins with a comprehensive survey of the origins and development of screen opera. Citron then

Author: Marcia J. Citron
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: canon, musical, gender
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2000-11-07
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0252069161
ISBN-13: 9780252069161

A classic in gender studies in music, Marcia J. Citron’s comprehensive, balanced work lays a broad foundation for the study of women composers and their music. Drawing on a diverse body of feminist and interdisciplinary theory, Citron shows how the western art canon is not intellectually pure but the result of a complex mixture of attitudes, practices, and interests that often go unacknowledged and unchallenged. Winner of the Pauline Alderman Prize from the International Alliance of Women in Music, "Gender and the Musical Canon" explores important elements of canon formation, such as not

Author: Marcia J. Citron
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: opera, studies, cambridge, film, meets
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2010-07-05
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0521895758
ISBN-13: 9780521895750

Opera can reveal something fundamental about a film, and film can do the same for an opera, argues Marcia J. Citron. Structured by the categories of Style, Subjectivity, and Desire, this volume advances our understanding of the aesthetics of the opera/film encounter. Case studies of a diverse array of important repertoire including mainstream film, opera-film, and postmodernist pastiche are presented. Citron uses Werner Wolf’s theory of intermediality to probe the roles of opera and film when they combine. The book also refines and expands film-music functions, and details the impact of

Authors:Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Marcia J. Citron,
Publisher: Pendragon Pr
Keywords: mendelssohn, felix, hensel, fanny, letters
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 1987-07
List price: $92.00
ISBN-10: 0918728525
ISBN-13: 9780918728524

Authors:Citron, S,
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Keywords: craft, guide, complete, songwriting
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0879103574
ISBN-13: 9780879103576

Songwriting: A Complete Guide to the Craft is both a comprehensive course for beginning and experienced songwriters and a rich source of new ideas, inspiration, and tricks of the trade for those who have already achieved professional standing. This fresh new edition not only contains all of the original volume’s cogent advice on how to write the always-popular genres - the country song, the ballad, and the love song - but has been revised to include: * Examples of hard rock, acid, heavy metal, bubblegum, hip-hop, salsa, rap, gangsta, reggae, ska, soul, and many other of today’s mos

Author: Michael B. Citron
Publisher: Mill City Press, Inc.
Keywords: sale, short, art
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1934937002
ISBN-13: 9781934937006

The Art of the Short Sale is your money making guide to the new housing market. Fact: Up to 95 percent of borrowers never respond to foreclosure notices. The Art of the Short Sale takes the mystery out of foreclosure. This simple and educational format serves as realtors’ go-to guide on how to make money in the wake of the housing bubble. From walk-in closets to Wall Street, Citron sheds light on the factors that led to the rise and fall of real estate in the United States. Each chapter navigates readers through the process of helping borrowers avoid nagging lenders and overcome th

Author: Mr. Stephen Citron
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: showtune, poet, herman, jerry
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-08-11
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 0300100825
ISBN-13: 9780300100822

The first in-depth biography of the celebrated composer/lyricist who created Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux FollesThis revealing and comprehensive book tells the full story of Jerry Herman’s life and career, from his early work in cabaret to his recent compositions for stage, screen, and television.Stephen Citron draws on extensive open-ended interviews with Jerry Herman as well as with scores of his theatrical colleagues, collaborators, and close friends. The resulting book—which sheds new light on each of Herman’s musicals and their scores—abounds in fascinating anecdotes and b