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Nineteenth-century Italian Opera from Rossini to Puccini
Author: Danièle Pistone
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Intended for the performer and general music lover as well as for students and musicologists, this three-part retrospective of Italian opera of the romantic era focuses on the settings, characters, and styles of the librettos; the voices, orchestration, and formal structure of the music; and the contemporary exigencies of the performance itself, moving from behind-the-scenes administration and artistry to the front-and-center interpreters and the audiences they played to. More than 120 musical examples support the text, the majority of them in an alphabetical appendix of "Famous Melodies", which includes the themes of popular arias along with captions detailing the operas, the composers, the acts in which the melodies occur, and the characters who sing them. The book also includes appendices of main characters, celebrated singers and conductors, and principal librettists; a glossary; and a note on Italian pronunciation. Numerous illustrations and tables, an exhaustive topical bibliography, and a select, current CD discography round out this informative introduction to opera's golden age.
Puccini's Turandot
Author: William Ashbrook
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-12-25
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1400866677
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, Turandot was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international repertory. In this colorful study two renowned music scholars demonstrate that this work, despite the modern climate in which it was written, was a fitting finale for the centuries-old Great Tradition of Italian opera. Here they provide concrete instances of how a listener might encounter the dramatic and musical structures of Turandot in light of the Italian melodramma, and firmly establish Puccini's last work within the tradition of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi. In a summary of the sounds, sights, and symbolism of Turandot, the authors touch on earlier treatments of the subject, outline the conception, birth, and reception of the work, and analyze its coordinated dramatic and musical design. Showing how the evolution of the libretto documents Puccini's reversion to large musical forms typical of the Great Tradition in the late nineteenth century, they give particular attention to his use of contrasting Romantic, modernist, and two kinds of orientalist coloration in the general musical structure. They suggest that Puccini's inability to complete the opera resulted mainly from inadequate dramatic buildup for Turandot's last-minute change of heart combined with an overly successful treatment of the secondary character.
Puccini
Author: William Weaver
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Over 100 historic photographs and illustrations--many in full color--document the life and works of Giacomo Puccini. Also included in these authoritative biographies are brief but detailed stories of the operas and the casts and conductors of the Metropolitan Opera and world premieres."--Publisher's description.
Music in the Present Tense
Author: Emanuele Senici
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2019-11-13
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 022666354X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the early 1800s, Rossini’s operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private. But after Rossini stopped composing, a sharp decline in popularity drove most of his works out of the repertory. In the past half century, they have made a spectacular return to operatic stages worldwide, but this recent fame has not been accompanied by a comparable critical reevaluation. Emanuele Senici’s new book provides a fresh look at the motives behind the Rossinian furore and its aftermath by examining the composer’s works in the historical context in which they were conceived, performed, seen, heard, and discussed. Situating the operas firmly within the social practices, cultural formations, ideological currents, and political events of early nineteenth-century Italy, Senici reveals Rossini’s dramaturgy as a radically new and specifically Italian reaction to the epoch-making changes witnessed in Europe at the time. The first book-length study of Rossini’s Italian operas to appear in English, Music in the Present Tense exposes new ways to explore nineteenth-century music and addresses crucial issues in the history of modernity, such as trauma, repetition, and the healing power of theatricality.
Reader's Guide to Music
Author: Murray Steib
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 928
ISBN-13: 1135942625
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).
Seven Puccini Librettos
Author: Giacomo Puccini
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9780393009309
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Puccini and The Girl
Author: Annie Janeiro Randall
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0226703894
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Set in the American West during the California Gold Rush, La fanciulla del West marked a significant departure from Giacomo Puccini's previous and best- known works. Puccini and the Girl is the first book to explore this important but often misunderstood opera that became the earliest work by a major European composer to receive an American premiere when it opened at New York's Metropolitan Opera House in 1910. Adapted from American playwright David Belasco's Broadway production, The Girl of the Golden West, Fanciulla was Puccini's most consciously modern work, and its Met debut received mixed reviews. Annie J. Randall and Rosalind Gray Davis base their account of its creation on previously unknown letters from Puccini to his main librettist, Carlo Zangarini. They mine musical materials, newspaper accounts, and rare photographs and illustrations to tell the full story of this controversial opera. Puccini and the Girl considers the production and reception of Puccini's "cowboy" opera in the light of contemporary criticism, providing both fascinating insight into its history and a look to the future as its centenary approaches. “Engrossing. . . . An eminently readable, ideally direct and information-packed book.”—William Fregosi, Opera Today
The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera
Author: Roger Parker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 618
ISBN-13: 9780192854452
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A historical survey of opera, from its beginnings in Florence 400 years ago, up to opera in the 1990s.
Opera
Author: Guy A. Marco
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-05-03
Total Pages: 655
ISBN-13: 113557801X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.
