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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Kurt Gödel, Gregor Mendel, Ernst Mach, Adolf Loos, Milan Kundera, Leoš Janáček, Bohumil Hrabal, Jana Novotná, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Lucie Šafářová, Lukáš Rosol, Ondřej Sekora, Fredy Perlman, Peter Sís, Pavel Haas, Karel Abrahám, Eugen Von Böhm-Bawerk, Zdeněk Ščasný, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Ernst Weiss, Dina Babbitt, Michal Březina, Baron Franz Von Pillersdorf, Vinzenz Eduard Milde, Josef Bulva, František Graus, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Jiří Hudec, David Vincour, Heinrich Wawra Von Fernsee, Ondřej Hotárek, Georg Joseph Kamel, Osvald Chlubna, Ferdinand Ritter Von Hebra, Jan Polák, Jaroslav Jiřík, Jan Graubner, Jan Stejskal, Nella Simaová, Maria Restituta, Maria Jeritza, Emanuel Von Friedrichsthal, List of People From Brno, Israel Bruna, Radúz Činčera, George Placzek, Helena Dvořáková, Jan Trefulka, Zdeněk Blatný, Libuše Šafránková, Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Zdenka Podkapová, Nikola Višňová, Leopold Janauschek, Luboš Kalouda, Josef Berg, Hana Černá, Wilhelm Elsner, David Kostelecký, Zdeněk Svoboda, Libor Došek, Viktor Kaplan, Hans Müller-Einigen, Fred Iltis, Leo Marian Vodička, Tereza Kerndlová, Dagmar Havlová, Ada Kuchařová, Jan Kotěra, Emil Redlich, Zdeněk Neubauer, Hugo Haas, Michal Hašek, Emil Zinner, Igor Ardašev, Michal Kolomazník, Julius Brach, Max Maretzek, František Halas, Richard Von Schaukal, Hellmuth Karasek, Bohuslav Fuchs, Robert Kron, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, René Wagner, Tomáš Julínek, Ondřej Liška, Milan Uhde, Tomáš Mica, Petr Čoupek, Karel Lang, Jana Galiková, Jaroslav Borák, Leopold Adametz, Petr Hubáček, Ferdinand Troyer, Helene Migerka, Lubomír Zajíček, Johann Gottlieb, Libor Zábranský, Renata Kolbovic, Stanislav Heller, Petr Hrdlička, Jiří Daler, Hana Janků, Antonín Procházka, Bedřich Pokorný, Jakub Obrovský, Richard Farda, Edmund Kirsch, Pavel Holu...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=132809 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Isaac Albéniz, Arthur Sullivan, Edvard Grieg, Leoš Janáček, Frederick Delius, Adrian Boult, Ferruccio Busoni, Miklós Rózsa, Wolfgang Fortner, Felix Weingartner, Ethel Smyth, Yvonne Catterfeld, Kurt Masur, Erwin Schulhoff, Wilhelm Backhaus, Nadja Uhl, Christian Sinding, Leo Funtek, Hugo Distler, Helmut Walcha, Peter Sodann, Klaus Tennstedt, Karl Richter, Götz Friedrich, Hans Sitt, Petra Schmidt-Schaller, Steffen Schleiermacher, Simone Kermes, Lívia Rév, Amadeus Webersinke, Matthias Goerne, Mirja Boes, Ludwig Güttler. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 22 November 1900) was an English composer, of Irish and Italian descent, best known for his operatic collaborations with librettist W. S. Gilbert, including such continually popular works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado. Sullivan's artistic output included 23 operas, 13 major orchestral works, eight choral works and oratorios, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous hymns and other church pieces, songs, parlour ballads, part songs, carols, and piano and chamber pieces. Apart from his comic operas with Gilbert, Sullivan is best known for some of his hymns and parlour songs, including "Onward Christian Soldiers", "The Absent-Minded Beggar", and "The Lost Chord". His most critically praised pieces include his Irish Symphony, his Overture di Ballo, The Martyr of Antioch, The Golden Legend, and, of the Savoy Operas, The Yeomen of the Guard. Sullivan's only grand opera, Ivanhoe, was initially highly successful, but it has been little heard since his death. Sullivan at age 18, studying at LeipzigSullivan was born in Lambeth, London. His father, Thomas Sullivan (18051866), was a military bandmaster and music teacher bor...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=45280 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Z Mrtvého Domu, Jenůfa, La Petite Renarde Rusée, Věc Makropulos, Sur Un Sentier Recouvert, Journal D'un Disparu, Quatuors à Cordes de Janáček, Messe Glagolitique, Concertino de Janáček, Pohádka, de La Maison Des Morts, le Secret Makropoulos, L'affaire Makropoulos. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Z mrtvého domu (en français : « De la maison des morts ») est un drame lyrique en trois actes et deux tableaux de Leoš Janáček (1854-1928). L'opéra De la maison des morts (Z mrtvého domu), probablement plus connu sous son titre en anglais From the house of dead, est la dernière œuvre lyrique de Leoš Janáček. Cet opéra, chanté en tchèque, est composé entre 1927 et 1928. Il est créé deux ans plus tard, le 11 avril 1930, de manière posthume, à Brno. Le livret est traduit et adapté par Leoš Janáček lui-même à partir du livre de Fedor Dostoïevski (1861-1862) Souvenirs de la maison des morts, ouvrage dans lequel l'écrivain raconte sa propre expérience du bagne. Hormis deux ou trois courts passages, l'œuvre de Janáček suit de près le texte de l'écrivain: il n'y a pas une ligne de son livret qui ne soit pas directement liée au texte de Dostoïevski. « C'est dans la juxtaposition et la succession de ces emprunts que Janáček s'autorise...une certaine liberté... Le compositeur s'est livré à un exercice de découpage-collage. Un collage parfois naïf et magnifique qu'on retrouve en miroir dans l'hétérogénéité du matériau musical qui compose la partition. ».(Patrice Chéreau). Musique et paroles sont de Leoš Janáček. « Tant dans sa forme musicale que théâtrale, De la maison des morts reste une œuvre primitive, dans le meilleur sens du terme.» (Pierre Boulez). Il y a de nombreux endroits où la notation rythmique change....http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Title: Leos Janacek.(Janacek: Sinfonietta, Glagolitic Mass)(Sound recording review)
Author: Bohuslav Vitek
Publication: Czech Music (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2009
Publisher: Czech Music Information
Issue: 4Page: 46(1)

Article Type: Sound recording review

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45 pp. Libretto (without score) in English only. ... Read more

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This entire volume is organized in a clear, readable format, resulting in a book that will help to make productions of The Cunning Little Vixen in the original Czech much easier a task than ever before. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Just what I needed!
Explicit, pertinent information including IPA and examples, translations, and explanations, for the singer tackling this opera and wishing to give the best possible impression, without speaking the language! Although I swear every time that I will only sing in the future in a language I speak and understand, this is a great springboard with the tools to give a notable performance, of an opera that's very worthwhile and beautiful.

An Invaluable Aid!
From Sir Thomas Allen, internationally acclaimed baritone, celebrated interpreter of the role of the Forester in both English and Czech productions:
ÒThe careers of most professional singers are taken up with the literature of the principle European languages, and the literature with which they become involved as part of standard repertoire. However, with the now established popularity of the works of Leos Janacek, the need for a familiarity with the Czech language has taken on a greater significance.
Translations into the vernacular exist, of course. Having sung the role of Forester on several occasions in English, it has always been a matter of great frustration when one tries to match a suitable English text to the intricate rhythms Janacek has written.
Timothy CheekÕs book comes as a work of great diligence, every word of the original Czech libretto analysed and transliterated for the non-Czech speaker. From personal experience I know the great worth and value of Prihody lisky Bystrousky, and this book will be an invaluable aid to anyone approaching the Ôopera as intendedÕ, making it ever more accessible.
It may be argued that the student ought to put horse before cart, and have the basic rudiments, and more, of the language, rather than tackling it phonetically in this way. A point well made, but I would argue the case to be made for more and more of us hearing Janacek: work with the Czech libretto. There is no substitute for that first-hand unsullied experience, in music that contains such vital rhythmic identity.Ó

Wonderful! I can't wait for the next volumes!
From Catherine Malfitano, soprano, international interpreter of Janacek roles:
ÒHere is a most welcome libretto that reveals many treasures for the professional and amateur alike. I love the dual translations, both word for word and idiomatic, right next to the IPA pronunciation guide to these Czech lyrics. This first in a series of Janacek Opera Libretti offers many invaluable nuggets of background information; musical, linguistic, stylistic, and cultural. Keep this volume by your opera score for immediate reference. I look forward to the KATYA and JENUFA Libretti, with eager anticipation. Bravo, Tim Cheek !Ó ... Read more

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Falsely accused of murder, the seduced and abandoned heroine of this powerful drama ultimately finds forgiveness and reconciliation. Czech composer Leos Janácek set Jenufa in a village of his native Moravia, spending eight years on its completion. He waited another dozen years between its local debut in 1904 and its first performance in Prague in 1916, where it was an instant success and ushered in a remarkably creative period for the composer (who was already well into his 60s). Janácek's fame spread steadily throughout Europe and the United States, where Jenufa premiered in 1924 and remains a popular favorite. This inexpensive edition will prove an indispensable rehearsal aid for soloists, chorus members, and accompanists. Unabridged republication of the Universal Edition, 1917, in Czech and English. Introduction to the Dover edition by Stanley Appelbaum.
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Warning, Libretto not in English
Despite the Description in the Amazon listing, the text of the opera is in Czech and German, not in English. ... Read more

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Opera in 3 acts, includes original language and english text. First Performed in Brno, Czechoslovakia on December 18, 1926. ... Read more

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Translated from Czech as The Adventures of Vixen Sharp-Ears is an opera by Leos Janacek, with a libretto adapted by the composer from a serialized novella by Rudolf Tesnohlídek and Stanislav Lolek, which was first published in the newspaper Lidové noviny. Universal Edition makes available the piano reduction of this well-loved opera for study and performance. ... Read more