All Outputs (11)

Music, Romanticism and Politics (2021)
Book Chapter
Hambridge, K. (2021). Music, Romanticism and Politics. In B. Taylor (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism (92-109). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108647342.008

This chapter explores a range of possible intersections between music, politics, and Romanticism in France and German lands in the first half of the nineteenth century. Beginning with a discussion of early German Romantic theories of political organi... Read More about Music, Romanticism and Politics.

Catching Up and Getting Ahead: The Opera House as Temple of Art in Berlin c. 1800 (2020)
Book Chapter
Hambridge, K. (2020). Catching Up and Getting Ahead: The Opera House as Temple of Art in Berlin c. 1800. In C. Newark, & W. Weber (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190224202.013.4

This chapter charts the changing status in Berlin of operatic repertoire associated with Friedrich II (Frederick the Great), from the gradual disappearance of opera seria by Carl Heinrich Graun and Johann Adolph Hasse to the survival of Benda’s melod... Read More about Catching Up and Getting Ahead: The Opera House as Temple of Art in Berlin c. 1800.

(Cross-)Gendering the German Voice (2020)
Book Chapter
Hambridge, K. (2020). (Cross-)Gendering the German Voice. In K. Chapin, & D. W. Jones (Eds.), Beethoven Studies 4 (121-143). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108552813.007

Pauline Anna Milder (1785–1838) undertook the cross-dressing role of Leonore in all three version of Beethoven’s Fidelio. In this detailed study of Milder’s career, the author examines the nature of Milder’s voice (as reported extensively by commenta... Read More about (Cross-)Gendering the German Voice.

The Melodramatic Moment: Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790-1820. (2018)
Book
Hambridge, K., & Hicks, J. (Eds.). (2018). The Melodramatic Moment: Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790-1820. The University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226563091.001.0001

We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look—from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein’s creation, and from Louise Brooks’s exaggerated acting in Pandora’s Box to the vicissitudes endlessly reshap... Read More about The Melodramatic Moment: Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790-1820..

The Melodramatic Moment (2018)
Book Chapter
Hambridge, K., & Hicks, J. (2018). The Melodramatic Moment. In K. Hambridge, & J. Hicks (Eds.), The Melodramatic Moment: Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790-1820. The University of Chicago Press

Music, Women and the Allure of Napoleon (2017)
Book Chapter
Hambridge, K., & Andries, A. (2017). Music, Women and the Allure of Napoleon. In T. Stammers (Ed.), The allure of Napoleon : essays Inspired by the collections of the Bowes Museum (19-22). Bowes Museum

Michael Pisani, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York (2016)
Journal Article
Hambridge, K. (2016). Michael Pisani, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 42(2), 246-257. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748372716660479

Melodramatic Histrionics : Bernhard Anselm Weber, ‘Ich bin geliebt’ (Sulmalle), Sulmalle (2016)
Journal Article
Hambridge, K. (2016). Melodramatic Histrionics : Bernhard Anselm Weber, ‘Ich bin geliebt’ (Sulmalle), Sulmalle. Cambridge Opera Journal, 28(2), 141-144. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954586716000124

‘Des fêtes anniversaires royales aux fêtes nationales? Pratique musicale et politique à Berlin, 1800-1815’ (2015)
Journal Article
Hambridge, K. (2015). ‘Des fêtes anniversaires royales aux fêtes nationales? Pratique musicale et politique à Berlin, 1800-1815’

The Last Stand: Napoleon's 100 Days in 100 Objects (website) (2015)
Digital Artefact
Hambridge, K. (2015). The Last Stand: Napoleon's 100 Days in 100 Objects (website)

Staging Singing in the Theater of War (Berlin, 1805) (2015)
Journal Article
Hambridge, K. (2015). Staging Singing in the Theater of War (Berlin, 1805). Journal of the American Musicological Society, 68(1), 39-98. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2015.68.1.39

Almost fifty years after the original event, Willibald Alexis’s historical novel Ruhe ist die erste Bürgerpflicht (1852) commemorated a musical performance that had taken place on October 16, 1805, at Berlin’s Nationaltheater. According to both Alexi... Read More about Staging Singing in the Theater of War (Berlin, 1805).