The Puccini Problem
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The Puccini Problem
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Author : Alexandra Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
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The Puccini Problem
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Author : Alexandra Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-03-08
The Puccini Problem written by Alexandra Wilson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-08 with Music categories.
A detailed investigation of the reception and cultural contexts of Puccini's music, this book offers a fresh view of this historically important but frequently overlooked composer. Wilson's study explores the ways in which Puccini's music and persona were held up as both the antidote to and the embodiment of the decadence widely felt to be afflicting late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italy, a nation which although politically unified remained culturally divided. The book focuses upon two central, related questions that were debated throughout Puccini's career: his status as a national or international composer, and his status as a traditionalist or modernist. In addition, Wilson examines how Puccini's operas became caught up in a wide range of extra-musical controversies concerning such issues as gender and class. This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of both the history of opera and of the wider artistic and intellectual life of turn-of-the-century Italy.
The Puccini Problem
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Author : Alexander May Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Puccini Problem written by Alexander May Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
Giacomo Puccini And His World
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Author : Arman Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-09
Giacomo Puccini And His World written by Arman Schwartz and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing on Puccini for the first time, offers a variety of new critical perspectives on the composer and his works. Containing discussions of all of Puccini’s operas from Manon Lescaut (1893) to Turandot (1926), this volume aims to move beyond clichés of the composer as a Romantic epigone and to resituate him at the heart of early twentieth-century musical modernity. This collection’s essays explore Puccini’s engagement with spoken theater and operetta, and with new technologies like photography and cinema. Other essays consider the philosophical problems raised by "realist" opera, discuss the composer’s place in a variety of cosmopolitan formations, and reevaluate Puccini’s orientalism and his complex interactions with the Italian fascist state. A rich array of primary source material, including previously unpublished letters and documents, provides vital information on Puccini’s interactions with singers, conductors, and stage directors, and on the early reception of the verismo movement. Excerpts from Fausto Torrefranca’s notorious Giacomo Puccini and International Opera, perhaps the most vicious diatribe ever directed against the composer, appear here in English for the first time. The contributors are Micaela Baranello, Leon Botstein, Alessandra Campana, Delia Casadei, Ben Earle, Elaine Fitz Gibbon, Walter Frisch, Michele Girardi, Arthur Groos, Steven Huebner, Ellen Lockhart, Christopher Morris, Arman Schwartz, Emanuele Senici, and Alexandra Wilson.
Giacomo Puccini Tosca
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Author : Mosco Carner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985-09-05
Giacomo Puccini Tosca written by Mosco Carner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-09-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A guide for opera goers to Tosca, which includes a synopsis of the plot and discussions on style.
Puccini In Context
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Author : Alexandra Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-09-14
Puccini In Context written by Alexandra Wilson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-14 with Music categories.
Exploring the many dimensions of Giacomo Puccini's historical legacy and significance, this book provides new perspectives on the life and work of a much-loved opera composer and demonstrates how political concerns shape the way we approach and perform his works in the present day. Accessibly written chapters by a range of international experts explore Puccini's interests, attitudes, and relationships, and examine how his works reflected the cultural, political, and social zeitgeist of their time. The essays first map Puccini's personal and professional networks, the regions and cities that meant so much to him, and his travels for both work and leisure. They go on to probe the composer's attitudes towards contemporary developments in music, literature, film, and drama and investigate his collaboration with librettists, publishers, singers, and conductors. The book closes with chapters on Puccini's compositional legacy, performance history, relationship with popular culture, and place in the international operatic canon.
Il Trittico Turandot And Puccini S Late Style
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Author : Andrew Davis
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2010-09-09
Il Trittico Turandot And Puccini S Late Style written by Andrew Davis and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-09 with Music categories.
Giacomo Puccini is one of the most frequently performed and best loved of all operatic composers. In Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style, Andrew Davis takes on the subject of Puccini's last two works to better understand how the composer creates meaning through the juxtaposition of the conventional and the unfamiliar -- situating Puccini in past operatic traditions and modern European musical theater. Davis asserts that hearing Puccini's late works within the context of la solita forma allows listeners to interpret the composer's expressive strategies. He examines Puccini's compositional language, with insightful analyses of melody, orchestration, harmony, voice-leading, and rhythm and meter.
Puccini S La Fanciulla Del West And American Musical Identity
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Author : Kathryn Fenton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-08-30
Puccini S La Fanciulla Del West And American Musical Identity written by Kathryn Fenton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-30 with Music categories.
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.
Opera In The Jazz Age
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Author : Alexandra Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Opera In The Jazz Age written by Alexandra Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
Opera in the Jazz Age: Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain explores the interaction between opera and popular culture at a moment when there was a growing imperative to categorize art forms as "highbrow," "middlebrow," or "lowbrow." In this provocative and timely study, Alexandra Wilson considers how the opera debate of the 1920s continues to shape the ways in which we discuss the art form, and draws connections between the battle of the brows and present-day discussions about elitism.
Jokes
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Author : Ted Cohen
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1999-10
Jokes written by Ted Cohen and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10 with Humor categories.
Acknowledgments1. Introduction2. Jokes Are Conditional3. When Jokes Are Asymmetrical4. Problems and Occasions for Joke-making5. Jewish Jokes and the Acceptance of Absurdity6. Taste, Morality, and the Propriety of JokingAppendixIndex of Jokes Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.