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Giuseppe Verdi
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Author : Gregory W. Harwood
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012
Giuseppe Verdi written by Gregory W. Harwood and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Art categories.
This comprehensive research guide surveys the most significant published materials relating to Giuseppe Verdi. This new edition includes research since the publication of the first edition in 1998.
The Life Of Verdi
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Author : John Rosselli
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-08-03
The Life Of Verdi written by John Rosselli 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 2000-08-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Relates the life of a boldly innovative composer whose operas still fill theatres today.
Verdi In Performance
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Author : Alison Latham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Verdi In Performance written by Alison Latham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Music categories.
This collection of essays addresses the issue of how to make Verdi's operas relevant to modern audiences while respecting the composer's intentions. Here, both scholars and music and stage practitioners reflect current thinking on matters such as "authentic" staging, performance practice, and the role of critical editions.
The Operas Of Giuseppe Verdi
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Author : Abramo Basevi
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-12-26
The Operas Of Giuseppe Verdi written by Abramo Basevi 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 2013-12-26 with Music categories.
Abramo Basevi published his study of Verdi’s operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer’s career. The first thorough, systematic examination of Verdi’s operas, it covered the twenty works produced between 1842 and 1857—from Nabucco and Macbeth to Il trovatore, La traviata, and Aroldo. But while Basevi’s work is still widely cited and discussed—and nowhere more so than in the English-speaking world—no translation of the entire volume has previously been available. The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi fills this gap, at the same time providing an invaluable critical apparatus and commentary on Basevi’s work. As a contemporary of Verdi and a trained musician, erudite scholar, and critic conversant with current and past operatic repertories, Basevi presented pointed discussion of the operas and their historical context, offering today’s readers a unique window into many aspects of operatic culture, and culture in general, in Verdi’s Italy. He wrote with precision on formal aspects, use of melody and orchestration, and other compositional features, which made his study an acknowledged model for the growing field of music criticism. Carefully annotated and with an engaging introduction and detailed glossary by editor Stefano Castelvecchi, this translation illuminates Basevi’s musical and historical references as well as aspects of his language that remain difficult to grasp even for Italian readers. Making Basevi’s important contribution to our understanding of Verdi and his operas available to a broad audience for the first time, The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi will delight scholars and opera enthusiasts alike.
Waiting For Verdi
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Author : Mary Ann Smart
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2018-06-22
Waiting For Verdi written by Mary Ann Smart and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-22 with Music categories.
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.
Giuseppe Verdi
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Author : Gregory W. Harwood
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-13
Giuseppe Verdi written by Gregory W. Harwood and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-13 with Music categories.
First Published in 1998. Giuseppe Verdi already stood out as a distinctive and unusually significant composer by the time his career was barely underway. Today, Verdi scholars build their work on a vast foundation of earlier research. For researchers who have not spent years with the Verdi literature or who may just be starting to explore some aspect of this giant’s fife and works, this foundation may seem daunting indeed. It is primarily for these researchers that this guide is intended. Its purpose is to index and describe some of the most significant studies about the composer, presenting enough material in annotations that researchers may survey the many myriad directions Verdi research has gone, ascertain the relevance of individual items to their individual interests, and pursue significant patterns and threads in which they are interested.
Analyzing Opera
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Author : Carolyn Abbate
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1989-01-01
Analyzing Opera written by Carolyn Abbate and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01 with Music categories.
"This book presents a great deal of new material. It also presents new interpretations of materials discussed earlier and elsewhere. As the editors point out in the introduction, discussion of opera has only in recent years taken on an analytical dimension. The scholars represented in this volume are among those at the forefront of the new critical and analytical movement. What they write is perhaps at times controversial, but it is always important."--William C. Holmes, University of California, Irvine "The editors' introduction to this collection. . . speaks eloquently for a richer and more varied approach to the analysis of opera. . . . The contributors are among the most accomplished scholars in nineteenth-century music studies. . . . More impressive is the depth and range of scholarship and analysis displayed. . . to the end of changing the historical and analytical stance toward the operas of Verdi and Wagner, by eschewing the partisan quarrels of the past and by the application of similar rigorous standards to each composer's music. . . . This volume will have a wide influence upon scholarly and analytical approaches to the music of Verdi and Wagner."--Richard Swift, University of California, Davis "This book presents a great deal of new material. It also presents new interpretations of materials discussed earlier and elsewhere. As the editors point out in the introduction, discussion of opera has only in recent years taken on an analytical dimension. The scholars represented in this volume are among those at the forefront of the new critical and analytical movement. What they write is perhaps at times controversial, but it is always important."--William C. Holmes, University of California, Irvine
Verdi With A Vengeance
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Author : William Berger
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2010-06-23
Verdi With A Vengeance written by William Berger and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-23 with Music categories.
Everything you could possibly know about Verdi and his operas, from the brilliant and humorous author of Wagner Without Fear. If you want to know why La traviata was actually a flop at its premiere in 1853, it's in here. If you want to know why claiming to have heard Bjorling's Chicago performance of Il trovatore is the classic opera fan faux pas, it's in here. Even if you just want to know how to pronounce Aida, or what the plot of Rigoletto is all about, this is the place to look. From the composer's intense hatred of priests to synopses of the operas and a detailed discography of the best recordings to buy, it can all be found in Verdi with a Vengeance. William Berger has given another improbable performance, serving up a book as thorough as it is funny and as original as it is astute, an utterly indispensable guide for novice and expert alike.
Encounters With Verdi
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Author : Marcello Conati
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1986
Encounters With Verdi written by Marcello Conati and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Composers categories.
An anthology of reminiscences, interviews, memoirs, and essays by a wide-ranging group of people--journalists, musicians, impresarios, or chance acquaintances--who met the reclusive and secretive composer at various moments during his long life. Each entry has a relevant place within the chronology of Verdi's life, and every reference to an unfamiliar event or name in the text is explained in the copious footnotes.
Verdi S Middle Period
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Author : Martin Chusid
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1997
Verdi S Middle Period written by Martin Chusid 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 1997 with Music categories.
During the middle phase of his career, 1849-1859, Verdi created some of his best-loved and most frequently performed operas, including Luisa Miller, Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La traviata, and Un ballo in maschera. This was also the period in which he wrote his first completely original French grand opera, Les Vepres siciliennes; the first version of Simon Boccanegra; and the intensely dramatic Stiffelio, until recent years the most neglected of all Verdi's mature works for the operatic stage. Featuring contributions from many of the most active Verdi scholars in the United States and Europe, Verdi's Middle Period explores the operas composed during this period from three interlinked perspectives: studies of the original source material, cross-disciplinary analyses of musical and textual issues, and the relationship of performance practice to Verdi's musical and dramatic conception. Both musicologists and serious opera buffs will enjoy this distinguished collection.