Nineteenth Century Italian Opera From Rossini To Puccini

Author : Danièle Pistone
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017089801

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Nineteenth-century Italian Opera from Rossini to Puccini by Danièle Pistone Pdf

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.

Author : Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521889988

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Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera by Roberta Montemorra Marvin Pdf

Leading scholars investigate the ways in which operas by nineteenth-century Italian composers have been reshaped and revived over time.

Author : William Weaver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Opera, Italian
ISBN : 0500027501

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The golden century of Italian opera from Rossini to Puccini by William Weaver Pdf

Author : Nicholas Baragwanath
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253001665

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The Italian Traditions & Puccini by Nicholas Baragwanath Pdf

“A major contribution . . . not only to Puccini studies but also to the study of nineteenth-century Italian opera in general.” —Nineteenth-Century Music Review In this groundbreaking survey of the fundamentals, methods, and formulas that were taught at Italian music conservatories during the 19th Century, Nicholas Baragwanath explores the compositional significance of tradition in Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Boito, and, most importantly, Puccini. Taking account of some 400 primary sources, Baragwanath explains the varying theories and practices of the period in light of current theoretical and analytical conceptions of this music. The Italian Traditions and Puccini offers a guide to an informed interpretation and appreciation of Italian opera by underscoring the proximity of archaic traditions to the music of Puccini. “Dense and challenging in its detail and analysis, this work is an important addition to the growing corpus of Puccini studies. . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice

Author : Emanuele Senici
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226663548

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Music in the Present Tense by Emanuele Senici Pdf

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.

Author : John Graziano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135552305

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Italian Opera in English by John Graziano Pdf

First Published in 1994. This is volume 3 of a 16-volume series providing comprehensive set of works from a full century of musical theatre in the United States of America. The work in this volume represents Italian opera in English though the works have British origins and strong French influences. This volume discusses various operatic interpretations of the Cinderella story, from its French operatic debut in 1810 to the most famous operas from Perrault and Rossini.

Author : Emanuele Senici
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521834376

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Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera by Emanuele Senici Pdf

An unusual look at Italian opera in the nineteenth century.

Author : William Ashbrook,Harold Powers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400866670

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Puccini's Turandot by William Ashbrook,Harold Powers Pdf

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.

Author : Steven Huebner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351915854

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National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume I by Steven Huebner Pdf

This volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). The book is divided into four sections that are thematically, rather than geographically, conceived: Places-essays centering on contexts for operatic culture; Genres and Styles-studies dealing with the question of how operas in this period were put together; Critical Studies of individual works, exemplifying particular critical trends; and Performance.

Author : Danièle Pistone
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015034415649

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Nineteenth-century Italian Opera from Rossini to Puccini by Danièle Pistone Pdf

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.

Author : Murray Steib
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135942625

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Reader's Guide to Music by Murray Steib Pdf

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).

Author : David R. B. Kimbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521466431

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Italian Opera by David R. B. Kimbell Pdf

David Kimbell traces the history of Italian opera from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.

Author : Simon Maguire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429773198

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Vincenzo Bellini and the Aesthetics of Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera by Simon Maguire Pdf

First published in 1989. This study explores Italian attitudes to opera while Vincenzo Bellini was studying and composing. It draws mainly on Italian critical and aesthetic writing dating from the end of an era that was still dominated by the Italian bel canto. Many of the writers considered are unfamiliar today, but they express the accepted views on music, opera, and singing that dominated a particularly insular tradition. This title will be of interest to students of Italian and Music History.

Author : Melina Esse
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226741802

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Singing Sappho by Melina Esse Pdf

From the theatrical stage to the literary salon, the figure of Sappho—the ancient poet and inspiring icon of feminine creativity—played a major role in the intertwining histories of improvisation, text, and performance throughout the nineteenth century. Exploring the connections between operatic and poetic improvisation in Italy and beyond, Singing Sappho combines earwitness accounts of famous female improviser-virtuosi with erudite analysis of musical and literary practices. Melina Esse demonstrates that performance played a much larger role in conceptions of musical authorship than previously recognized, arguing that discourses of spontaneity—specifically those surrounding the improvvisatrice, or female poetic improviser—were paradoxically used to carve out a new authority for opera composers just as improvisation itself was falling into decline. With this novel and nuanced book, Esse persuasively reclaims the agency of performers and their crucial role in constituting Italian opera as a genre in the nineteenth century.

Author : Mary Ann Smart
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520966574

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Waiting for Verdi by Mary Ann Smart Pdf

The name Giuseppe Verdi conjures images of Italians singing opera in the streets and bursting into song at political protests or when facing the firing squad. While many of the accompanying stories were exaggerated, or even invented, by later generations, Verdi's operas—along with those by Rossini, Donizetti, and Mercadante—did inspire Italians to imagine Italy as an independent and unified nation. Capturing what it was like to attend the opera or to join in the music at an aristocratic salon, Waiting for Verdi shows that the moral dilemmas, emotional reactions, and journalistic polemics sparked by these performances set new horizons for what Italians could think, feel, say, and write. Among the lessons taught by this music were that rules enforced by artistic tradition could be broken, that opera could jolt spectators into intense feeling even as it educated them, and that Italy could be in the vanguard of stylistic and technical innovation rather than clinging to the glories of centuries past. More practically, theatrical performances showed audiences that political change really was possible, making the newly engaged spectator in the opera house into an actor on the political stage.