Music in the Present Tense : Rossini's Italian Operas in Their Time / Emanuele Senici.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Senici, Emanuele, Author.

Series:

Opera lab.

Chicago scholarship online.

Opera Lab: Explorations in History, Technology, and Performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868. Operas.

Rossini, Gioacchino.

Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868--Appreciation.

Opera--Italy--19th century.

Opera.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 pages).

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the early 1800s, Rossini's operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private. But after Rossini stopped composing, a sharp decline in popularity drove most of his works out of the repertory. In the past half century, they have made a spectacular return to operatic stages worldwide, but this recent fame has not been accompanied by a comparable critical reevaluation. Emanuele Senici's new book provides a fresh look at the motives behind the Rossinian furore and its aftermath by examining the composer's works in the historical context in which they were conceived, performed, seen, heard, and discussed. Situating the operas firmly within the social practices, cultural formations, ideological currents, and political events of early nineteenth-century Italy, Senici reveals Rossini's dramaturgy as a radically new and specifically Italian reaction to the epoch-making changes witnessed in Europe at the time. The first book-length study of Rossini's Italian operas to appear in English, Music in the Present Tense exposes new ways to explore nineteenth-century music and addresses crucial issues in the history of modernity, such as trauma, repetition, and the healing power of theatricality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Musical Examples

Introduction

1. Imitation

2. Repetition

3. Borrowing

4. Style

5. Genre

6. Dramaturgy

7. Noise

8. Modernity

9. Theatricality

10. Repertory

11. "Di tanti palpiti"

12. Memory

13. Pleasure

14. Movement

15. Belief

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226663685

022666368X

OCLC:

1124605474