The Cambridge companion to Verdi
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
This Companion provides an accessible biographical, theatrical, and social-cultural background for Verdi's music, examines in detail important general aspects of its style and method of composition, and discusses stylistic themes in reviews of repres...
Read more- Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521635356
- ISBN10 0521635357
- Type BOOK
- Published 2004
- Bookbinding Rustic
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Canto / OperaThe Cambridge companion to Verdi
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
This Companion provides an accessible biographical, theatrical, and social-cultural background for Verdi's music, examines in detail important general aspects of its style and method of composition, and discusses stylistic themes in reviews of repres...
Mainland Spain
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This Companion provides an accessible biographical, theatrical, and social-cultural background for Verdi's music, examines in detail important general aspects of its style and method of composition, and discusses stylistic themes in reviews of representative works. Aspects of Verdi's milieu, style, creative process, and critical reception are explored in essays by highly reputed specialists. Individual chapters address themes in Verdi's life, his role in transforming the theatre business, and his relationship to Italian Romanticism and the Risorgimento. Chapters on four operas representative of the different stages of Verdi's career, Ernani, Rigoletto, Don Carlos, and Otello synthesize analytical themes introduced in the more general chapters and illustrate the richness of Verdi's creativity. The Companion also includes chapters on Verdi's non-operatic songs and other music, his creative process, and writing about Verdi from the nineteenth century to the present day.