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Alzira : tragedia lirica in tre atti / Giuseppe Verdi ; [parole di] Salvadore Cammarano ; riduzione per canto e pianoforte condotta sull'edizione critica della partitura a cura di Stefano Castelvecchi con la collaborazione di Jonathan Cheskin.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library M1503.V484 A45 2002
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
- Series:
- Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Selections. 1985. University of Chicago Press (Opere di Giuseppe Verdi) Works.
- Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Selections. 1985. University of Chicago Press (Works of Giuseppe Verdi) Works.
- Ricordi opera vocal score series
- Opere di Giuseppe Verdi = Works of Giuseppe Verdi
- Standardized Title:
- Alzira. Vocal score
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas--Vocal scores with piano.
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Operas.
- Vocal scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 vocal score (lxvii, 279 pages) ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press ; Milano : Ricordi, [2002]
- Language Note:
- Italian words.
- Summary:
- Like all of Verdi's operas from the 1840s, "Alzira" is to some extent an "experimental" opera, one of violent musical contrasts. Pieces closely reflecting the meaning of the words, and foreshadowing the works of Verdi's maturity, are set against numbers in more traditional forms, such as the cabaletta, charged with driving rhythmic energy. Prior to Castelvecchi and Cheskin's critical edition, no orchestral score of "Alzira" had ever been published; the rare manuscript versions that circulated after World War II were based on sources distant from the autograph, filled with musical and textual imprecisions. The critical edition--based both on the autograph score housing in the archives of Casa Ricordi and important secondary sources--rectifies those errors, and makes a reliable score of the opera available for the first time; the piano-vocal score offers a paperback edition derived from that definitive full score.
- Notes:
- Introductory matter and critical notes in Italian and English.
- Based on: Alzire / Voltaire.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 8875926964
- OCLC:
- 51834095
- Publisher Number:
- M041369440
- 136944 Ricordi
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