The Cambridge Companion to VerdiScott Leslie Balthazar Cambridge University Press, 18/11/2004 - 336 من الصفحات This Companion provides a biographical, theatrical, and social-cultural background for Verdi's operas, examines in detail important general aspects of its style and method of composing, and synthesizes stylistic themes in discussions of representative works. Aspects of Verdi's milieu, style, creative process, and critical reception are explored in essays by highly reputed specialists. Like others in the series this Companion is aimed primarily at students and opera lovers. |
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Verdis life a thematic biography | 3 |
The Italian theatre of Verdis day | 15 |
Verdi Italian Romanticism and the Risorgimento | 29 |
The forms of set pieces | 49 |
New currents in the libretto | 69 |
Words and music | 88 |
French influences | 111 |
Structural coherence | 139 |
Chhai di nuovo buffon? or Whats new with Rigoletto | 197 |
Verdis Don Carlos an overview of the operas | 209 |
Desdemonas alienation and Otellos fall | 237 |
An introduction to Verdis working methods | 257 |
Verdi criticism | 269 |
Notes | 282 |
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Instrumental music in Verdis operas | 154 |
Verdis nonoperatic works | 169 |
Ernani the tenor in crisis | 185 |
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