The Cambridge companion to Verdi / edited by Scott L. Balthazar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balthazar, Scott Leslie, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to music.

Cambridge companions to music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901--Criticism and interpretation.

Verdi, Giuseppe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 336 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 chapters address themes in Verdi's life, his role in transforming the theater 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 scholarly writing about Verdi from the nineteenth-century to the present day.

Contents:

Verdi's life : a thematic biography / Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

The Italian theatre of Verdi's day / Alessandro Roccatagliati

Verdi, Italian Romanticism, and the risorgimento / Mary Ann Smart

The forms of set pieces / Scott L. Balthazar

New currents in the libretto / Fabrizio Della Seta

Words and music / Emanuele Senici

French influences / Andreas Giger

Structural coherence / Steven Huebner

Instrumental music in Verdi's operas / David Kimbell

Verdi's non-operatic works / Roberta Montemorra Marvin

Ernani : the tenor in crisis / Rosa Solinas

"Ch'hai di nuovo, buffon?", or, What's new with Rigoletto / Cormac Newark

Verdi's Don Carlos : an overview of the operas / Harold Powers

Desdemona's alienation and Otello's fall / Scott L. Balthazar

An introduction to Verdi's working methods / Luke Jensen

Verdi criticism / Gregory W. Harwood.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-81586-5

1-139-00105-1

1-280-74989-X

0-511-26513-1

0-511-26585-9

0-511-26358-9

0-511-32430-8

0-511-26439-9

OCLC:

252533352