The Cambridge companion to Gilbert and Sullivan
By: edited by David Eden and Meinhard Saremba.
Contributors: Eden, David, 1942-; Saremba, Meinhard, 1960-
Series: Cambridge companions to music
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780521888493; 9780521716598
Subjects: Sullivan, Arthur, -- Sir, -- 1842-1900; Gilbert, W. S. -- 1836-1911 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Background:; title: Savoy opera and its discontents: the theatrical background to a quarrel / David Eden; title: Identity crisis and the search for English opera: the Savoy Theatre in the 1890s / William Parry; title: Resituating Gilbert and Sullivan: the musical and aesthetic context / Benedict Taylor; title: 'We sing as one individual'?: popular misconceptions of 'Gilbert and Sullivan' / Meinhard Saremba; title: Part II. Focus:; title: The operas in context: stylistic elements - the Savoy and beyond / Richard Silverman; title: The librettos in context: Gilbert's 'Fables in Song' / Horst Dölvers; title: 'This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter': patter songs and the word-music relationship / Laura Kasson Fiss; title: Standing still and moving forward: The Mikado, Haddon Hall, and concepts of time in the Savoy operas / Michael Beckerman; title: Musical contexts I: motives and methods in Sullivan's allusions / James Brooks Kuykendall; title: Musical contexts II: characterisation and emotion in the Savoy operas / Martin T. Yates; title: Part III. Reception:; title: Topsy-Turvy: a personal journey / Mike Leigh; title: Amateur tenors and choruses in public: the amateur scene / Ian Bradley; title: Champions and aficionados: amateur and listener experiences of the Savoy operas in performance / Stephanie Pitts; title: 'How great thy charm, thy sway how excellent!': tracing Gilbert and Sullivan's legacy in the American musical / Raymond Knapp; title: 'See how the Fates their gifts allot': the reception of productions and translations in continental Europe / Jana Polianovskaia; title: Part IV. Into the Twenty-First Century:; title: Adventures in musical detection: scholarship, editions, productions and the future of the Savoy operas / David Russell Hulme; title: Appendix 1: Who wrote the overtures?; title: Appendix 2: Stage and choral works by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert; title: Appendix 3: Modern editions of works by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert.