The Italian Traditions & Puccini
Title | The Italian Traditions & Puccini PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Baragwanath |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 439 |
Release | 2011-07-08 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0253001668 |
“A major contribution . . . not only to Puccini studies but also to the study of nineteenth-century Italian opera in general.” —Nineteenth-Century Music Review In 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, Donizetti, Verdi, Boito, and, most importantly, Puccini. Taking account of some 400 primary sources, Baragwanath explains the varying theories and practices of the period in light of current theoretical and analytical conceptions of this music. The Italian Traditions and Puccini offers a guide to an informed interpretation and appreciation of Italian opera by underscoring the proximity of archaic traditions to the music of Puccini. “Dense and challenging in its detail and analysis, this work is an important addition to the growing corpus of Puccini studies. . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice
Puccini's Turandot
Title | Puccini's Turandot PDF eBook |
Author | William Ashbrook |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2014-12-25 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1400866677 |
Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, Turandot was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international repertory. In this colorful study two renowned music scholars demonstrate that this work, despite the modern climate in which it was written, was a fitting finale for the centuries-old Great Tradition of Italian opera. Here they provide concrete instances of how a listener might encounter the dramatic and musical structures of Turandot in light of the Italian melodramma, and firmly establish Puccini's last work within the tradition of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi. In a summary of the sounds, sights, and symbolism of Turandot, the authors touch on earlier treatments of the subject, outline the conception, birth, and reception of the work, and analyze its coordinated dramatic and musical design. Showing how the evolution of the libretto documents Puccini's reversion to large musical forms typical of the Great Tradition in the late nineteenth century, they give particular attention to his use of contrasting Romantic, modernist, and two kinds of orientalist coloration in the general musical structure. They suggest that Puccini's inability to complete the opera resulted mainly from inadequate dramatic buildup for Turandot's last-minute change of heart combined with an overly successful treatment of the secondary character.
Italian Opera
Title | Italian Opera PDF eBook |
Author | David R. B. Kimbell |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 708 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521466431 |
David Kimbell traces the history of Italian opera from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.
Italian Opera. [Mit Abb. U. Noten.] (1. Publ.)
Title | Italian Opera. [Mit Abb. U. Noten.] (1. Publ.) PDF eBook |
Author | David R. B. Kimbell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 684 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Opera |
ISBN |
Giacomo Puccini and His World
Title | Giacomo Puccini and His World PDF eBook |
Author | Arman Schwartz |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2016-08-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0691172862 |
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.
Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style
Title | Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Davis |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2010-09-09 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0253004721 |
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
Title | Puccini PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane Phillips-Matz |
Publisher | UPNE |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2002-10-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781555535308 |
This masterful biography provides the most authentic and revealing portrait to date of this major operatic composer