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W. A. Mozart : Don Giovanni / Julian Rushton.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.M9 R88
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rushton, Julian.
- Series:
- Cambridge opera handbooks
- Cambridge opera handbooks.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Don Giovanni.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 165 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981.
- Summary:
- This book is a study of Mozart's Don Giovanni, his second opera to a libretto by da Ponte. Although it is one of the handful of best-known and most often performed operas of the last two hundred years, Don Giovanni is seldom given in an authentic form and arguments persist as to its nature. Julian Rushton takes the view that, notwithstanding the tragic nature of certain scenes, it must be regarded as an opera buffa. He gives a brief summary of its history and life in the theatre, but the chief historical essay (by Edward Forman) concerns the subject-matter before it reached da Ponte. The book includes a very detailed synopsis which forms the basis of an extended commentary on the librettist's handling of a plot constructed of both original and inherited ideas. Bernard Williams contributes an essay on Don Giovanni as an idea in literature and philosophy since Mozart. Certain aspects of the music are considered in detail; Anna, Elvira, and Giovanni himself are examined as musical personalities, and their conflict in the quartet No. 9 is explored. The tonal and harmonic language of the statue music and associated scenes is then analysed. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography, and a discography of complete recordings compiled by Malcolm Walker.
- Contents:
- 2 Synopsis 8
- 3 Don Juan before da Ponte / Edward Forman 27
- 4 The libretto 45
- 5 Don Giovanni in the theatre 66
- 6 Don Giovanni as an idea / Bernard Williams 81
- 7 The music 92
- 8 The literature of Don Giovanni 122.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Discography: pages 159-161.
- Bibliography: pages 153-156.
- ISBN:
- 0521228263
- OCLC:
- 7173207
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