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  • Not without Madness

    Perspectives on Opera

    by Fabrizio Della Seta ...
    Translated by Mark Weir ...
    Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike. Such madness, as Goethe wrote, is indispensable in all theater, and yet in practice, sentiment and passion must be balanced by sense and reason. Exploring this tension between madness and reason, Not without Madness presents new analytical approaches to thinking about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century opera through the ... Read more

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  • Bellini

    by Fabrizio Della Seta, James Chater ...
    Series series Composers Across Cultures
    Bellini is the most complete monograph ever published to-date on the life and legacy of the composer from Catania. His achievements, presented in the historical-social context of his time, explore his relationships with educational institutions, the theatrical production system and the literary world, and impresarios, publishers, librettists, and other musicians alike. Each chapter is dedicated to ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • Divas and Scholars

    Performing Italian Opera

    by Philip Gossett ...
    Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett's personal experiences of triumphant—and even failed—performances and suffused with his towering and tonic ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi

    Edited by John Whenham, Richard Wistreich ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Claudio Monteverdi is one of the most important figures of 'early' music, a composer whose music speaks powerfully and directly to modern audiences. This book, first published in 2007, provides an authoritative treatment of Monteverdi and his music, complementing Paolo Fabbri's standard biography of the composer. Written by leading specialists in the field, it is aimed at students, performers and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Solfeggio Tradition

    A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century

    by Nicholas Baragwanath ...
    How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how could composers of the time write operas in a matter of days? The secret lies in the solfeggio tradition, a music education method that was fundamental to the training of European musicians between 1680 and 1830 — a time during which professional ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Singing Games in Early Modern Italy

    The Music Books of Orazio Vecchi

    by Paul Schleuse ...
    Series series Music and the Early Modern Imagination
    In Italy during the late cinquecento, printed music could be found not only in the homes of the wealthy or the music professional, but also in lay homes, courts, and academies. No longer confined to the salons of the elite, music took on the role of social play and recreation. Paul Schleuse examines these new musical forms through a study of the music books of Italian priest, poet, and composer, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Verdi

    Edited by Scott L. Balthazar ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    This 2004 Companion provides a biographical, theatrical and social-cultural background for Verdi's music, 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. Individual ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Italian Traditions & Puccini

    Compositional Theory & Practice in Nineteenth-Century Opera

    by Nicholas Baragwanath ...
    "A major contribution . . . not only to Puccini studies but also to the study of nineteenth-century Italian opera in general." — Nineteenth-Century Music ReviewIn 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 ... Read more

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  • The Italian Cantata in Vienna

    Entertainment in the Age of Absolutism

    by Lawrence Bennett ...
    A history of music for the imperial court "from a professor, choral director, and professional tenor who has studied Viennese cantatas for half a century" (Lowell Lindgren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).Lawrence Bennett provides a comprehensive study of the rich repertoire of accompanied vocal chamber music that entertained the imperial family in Vienna and their guests throughout the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia

    Edited by Roberta Montemorra Marvin ...
    Verdi's enduring presence on the opera stages of the world and as a subject for study by scholars in various disciplines has placed him as a central figure within modern culture. His operas, including La traviata, Rigoletto and Aida, are among the most frequently performed worldwide and his popularity from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day is undisputed. The Cambridge Verdi ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Music in the Present Tense

    Rossini's Italian Operas in Their Time

    by Emanuele Senici ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Curious and Modern Inventions

    Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy

    by Rebecca Cypess ...
    Early seventeenth-century Italy saw a revolution in instrumental music. Large, varied, and experimental, the new instrumental repertoire was crucial for the Western tradition—but until now, the impulses that gave rise to it had yet to be fully explored. Curious and Modern Inventions offers fresh insight into the motivating forces behind this music, tracing it to a new conception of instruments of ... Read more

    $42.49 USD