{"product_id":"9780729412063-moving-scenes","title":"Moving scenes","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe circulation of music and theatre in Europe, 1700-1815\u003cbr\u003eThe cultural transfer of music in the 18th century, covering plays, operas, instruments, dance notation, institutions, networks, quantitative and analytical studies of repertories, and considerations of sociability.\u003cbr\u003eIn eighteenth-century Europe, artistic production was characterised by significant geographical and cultural transfer. For innumerable musicians, composers, singers, actors, authors, dramatists and translators – and the works they produced – state borders were less important than style, genre and canon. Through a series of multinational case studies a team of authors examines the mechanisms and characteristics of cultural and artistic adaptability to demonstrate the complexity and flexibility of theatrical and musical exchanges during this period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy exploring questions of national taste, so-called cultural appropriation and literary preference, contributors examine the influence of the French canon on the European stage – as well as its eventual rejection –, probe how and why musical and dramatic materials became such prized objects of exchange, and analyse the double processes of transmission and literary cross-breeding in translations and adaptations. Examining patterns of circulation in England, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavia, Russia, Bohemia, Austria, Italy and the United States, authors highlight:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe role of migrant musicians in breaching national boundaries and creating a ‘musical cosmopolitanism’;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe emergence of a specialised market in which theatre agents and local authorities negotiated contracts and productions, and recruited actors and musicians;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe translations and rewritings of major plays such as Sheridan’s \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eSchool for scandal\u003c\/i\u003e, Schiller’s \u003ci\u003eDie Räuber\u003c\/i\u003e and Kotzebue’s \u003ci\u003eMenschenhass und Reue\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe refashioning of indigenous and ‘national’ dramas in Europe under French Revolutionary and imperial rule.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41593314148449,"sku":"9780729412063","price":130.11,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29872379.jpg?v=1725808092","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780729412063-moving-scenes","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}