Play Puccini

Author : Giacomo Puccini
Publisher : Ricordi - Bmg Ricordi
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0634046209

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Play Puccini by Giacomo Puccini Pdf

(Instrumental Play-Along). Who needs a singer? With Play Puccini flutists can bathe themselves in luxurious Italian melody! These ten opera arias are among the composer's most famous and distinctive achievements, here transcribed for intermediate level solo flute and piano. The book includes a biography of Puccini, notes about the plot of each opera, and the dramatic context of the selected aria. The companion CD features excellent performances, as well as piano accompaniments for practice. Includes arias from: La Boheme , La Fanciulla Del West , Gianni Schicchi , Madama Butterfly , Manon Lescaut , Suor Angelica , Tosca and Turandot .

Author : Merritt Wilson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781796047950

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Puccini's Operas by Merritt Wilson Pdf

Opera was and still is one of the oldest forms of entertainment. It’s been around longer than any other art form known to mankind, longer than radio, the internet, video games, television and even movies. It’s an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining a script called a libretto and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates music, singing, scenery, costumes and sometimes dancing. Some operas have spoken dialogue called a Singspiel in which the singers talk between songs aka arias. Other operas have a singing style called a Recitative in which the singers imitate spoken dialogue by singing their lines instead of talking.

Author : Iris J. Arnesen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786454341

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The Romantic World of Puccini by Iris J. Arnesen Pdf

Giacomo Puccini, composer of some of the world's most popular operas, including La Boheme, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly, was also a highly literary person who based his librettos on existing works of literature. This work explores that literary inheritance in an effort to enhance the listener's appreciation of the operatic experience. The author argues that the majority of Puccini's operas compose a grand cycle that finds its roots in the romance genre of 12th century France, serving to celebrate the strong, independent heroine. Via a close examination of the source works, the librettos, and the scores, this book offers fresh perspective on Puccini's legacy.

Author : Kathryn M. Fenton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351594875

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Puccini’s La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity by Kathryn M. Fenton Pdf

On 10 December 1910, Giacomo Puccini’s seventh opera, La fanciulla del West, had its premiere before a sold-out audience at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House. The performance was the Metropolitan Opera Company’s first world premiere by any composer. By all accounts, the premiere was an unambiguous success and the event itself recognized as a major moment in New York cultural history. The initial public opinion matched Puccini’s own evaluation of his opera. He called it "the best he had ever written" and expected it to become as popular as La Bohème. Yet the music reviews tell a different story. Marked by ambivalence, the reviews expose the New York City critics’ struggle to reconcile the opera they expected to see with the one they actually saw, and the opera itself became embroiled in controversy over the essence of musical Americanness and the nativist perception that a uniquely American national opera tradition continued to elude both American- and foreign-born opera composers. This book seeks to account for the differences between Puccini’s own assessments of the opera and those of its first audience. Offering transcriptions of the central reviews and of letters unavailable elsewhere, the book provides a historically informed understanding of La fanciulla del West and the reception of this European work as it intersected with both opera production and consumption in the United States and with the process of American musical identity formation during the very period that Americans actively sought to eradicate European cultural influences. As such, it offers a window into the development of nativism and "cosmopolitan nationalism" in New York City’s musical life during the first decade of the twentieth century.

Author : John Bell Young
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486799964

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Puccini: A Listener's Guide by John Bell Young Pdf

"This Dover edition, first published in 2016, is a slightly altered republication of the work originally published by Amadeus Press, New York, in 2008."

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780977132041

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Puccini's Tosca by Burton D. Fisher Pdf

A comprehensive guide to Puccini's TOSCA, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with Italian/English side-by side, and over 20 music highlight examples.

Author : Mosco Carner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1985-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521296617

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Giacomo Puccini: Tosca by Mosco Carner Pdf

A guide for opera goers to Tosca, which includes a synopsis of the plot and discussions on style.

Author : Jan Watts
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781445714363

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Le Piccole Donne Di Puccini by Jan Watts Pdf

This is a full length play about the life of Giacomo Puccini. It has a a cast of eight women with Puccini as a statue that comes to life. This statue could be a puppet or played by a woman. It is set in a piazza in Lucca, Tuscany.

Author : Giacomo Puccini
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780714545059

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Turandot by Giacomo Puccini Pdf

A Turandot filtered through a modern brain', wrote Puccini, describing his plans to rework the eighteenth-century fable by Carlo Gozzi. According to Mosco Carner, Puccini's last and supreme work is an advanced score which, with an orchestration that reflects contemporaries such as Richard Strauss and Stravinsky as well as genuine Chinese rhythms and harmonies, remains true to the Italian vocal tradition. The musicologist Juergen Maehder analyses of the ending, which Franco Alfano composed from Puccini's sketches. In addition, the great British soprano Dame Eva Turner recalls her experiences of singing the title role, of which she was a legendary interpreter.Contents: The Genesis of the Opera, Mosco Carner; The Score, Mosco Carner; Puccini's 'Turandot': A Fragment, Juergen Maehder; Carlo Gozzi's 'Turandot' and Its Transformation into Puccini's Libretto, John Black; Memories of Performing 'Turandot', Eva Turner; Turandot: Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni; Turandot: English literal translation by William Weaver

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-30
Category : Operas
ISBN : 9780976103554

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Puccini's Il Tabarro by Burton D. Fisher Pdf

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781930841628

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Opera Classics Library Puccini Companion by Burton D. Fisher Pdf

A comprehensive guide to Puccini's 12 operas, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, Story Narratives with over 120 Music Highlight Examples, and a newly translated Libretto of each opera (exclusing Turandot) with Italian English side-by-side.

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780977145560

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Puccini's Il Trittico by Burton D. Fisher Pdf

A comprehensive guide to Puccini's IL TRITTICO (IL TABARRO, SUOR ANGELICA, GIANNI SCHICCHI), featuring Brief Story Synopsis, Principal Characters, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, a complete, newly translated libretto of each opera with Italian/English translation side-by-side, an in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis, a Discography, Videography and Dictionary of Opera and Musical terms.

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781102009276

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Puccini's la Bohème by Burton D. Fisher Pdf

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780967397306

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Puccini's the Girl of the Golden West (la Fanciulla Del West) by Burton D. Fisher Pdf

A newly translated Libretto featuring foreign language/English side-by-side, and music examples interspersed throughout the text.

Author : Frank N. Magill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1418 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136593697

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The 20th Century O-Z by Frank N. Magill Pdf

Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.