Author: Philip Gossett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393303612
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
These five biographies provide the first complete survey of Italian opera from the early buffo operas of Rossini to Verdi's great masterpieces, Otello and Falstaff, and the verismo operas of Puccini. Andrew Porter has been highly praised for his original and enlightening account of Verdi, and Philip Gossett has received similar acclaim for his treatment of Rossini. Porter, Gossett, William Ashbrooke, Julian Budden, Mosco Carner, and Friedrich Lippmann, all acknowledged experts in the field of Italian opera, combine to offer insight into the traditions and workings of one of the most fascinating periods in the history of opera. Book jacket.
The New Grove Masters of Italian Opera
Author: Philip Gossett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393303612
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
These five biographies provide the first complete survey of Italian opera from the early buffo operas of Rossini to Verdi's great masterpieces, Otello and Falstaff, and the verismo operas of Puccini. Andrew Porter has been highly praised for his original and enlightening account of Verdi, and Philip Gossett has received similar acclaim for his treatment of Rossini. Porter, Gossett, William Ashbrooke, Julian Budden, Mosco Carner, and Friedrich Lippmann, all acknowledged experts in the field of Italian opera, combine to offer insight into the traditions and workings of one of the most fascinating periods in the history of opera. Book jacket.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393303612
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
These five biographies provide the first complete survey of Italian opera from the early buffo operas of Rossini to Verdi's great masterpieces, Otello and Falstaff, and the verismo operas of Puccini. Andrew Porter has been highly praised for his original and enlightening account of Verdi, and Philip Gossett has received similar acclaim for his treatment of Rossini. Porter, Gossett, William Ashbrooke, Julian Budden, Mosco Carner, and Friedrich Lippmann, all acknowledged experts in the field of Italian opera, combine to offer insight into the traditions and workings of one of the most fascinating periods in the history of opera. Book jacket.
The New Grove Masters of Italian Opera
Author: Philip Gossett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Italian Baroque Masters
Author: Denis Arnold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Limelight Book of Opera
Author: Arthur Jacobs
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879100445
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Biographical sketches of the composers and critical interpretations of their productions accompany these summaries of eighty-seven famous operas
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879100445
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Biographical sketches of the composers and critical interpretations of their productions accompany these summaries of eighty-seven famous operas
The Wordsworth book of opera
Author: Arthur Jacobs
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853263705
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
This volume is a reference source to literature in the English language throughout the world. It provides a survey of the world-wide literary tradition of this area, and offers explanations of genres, movements, critical terms and literary concepts.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853263705
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
This volume is a reference source to literature in the English language throughout the world. It provides a survey of the world-wide literary tradition of this area, and offers explanations of genres, movements, critical terms and literary concepts.
Masters of Italian Opera
Author: Philip Gossett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Italian Opera
Author: David R. B. Kimbell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466431
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
David Kimbell traces the history of Italian opera from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466431
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
David Kimbell traces the history of Italian opera from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.
Italian Baroque Masters
Author: Denis Arnold
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393303605
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most up-to-date body of musical knowledge ever gathered together.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393303605
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most up-to-date body of musical knowledge ever gathered together.
The New Grove Wagner
Author: John Deathridge
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315905
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Contains a concise . . . account of Wagner's life by John Deathridge and . . . a treatment of Wagner's music, aesthetics, and individual operas and music dramas by Carl Dahlhaus which is a tour de force. --Joseph Kerman, New York Review of Books
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315905
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Contains a concise . . . account of Wagner's life by John Deathridge and . . . a treatment of Wagner's music, aesthetics, and individual operas and music dramas by Carl Dahlhaus which is a tour de force. --Joseph Kerman, New York Review of Books
Vincenzo Bellini
Author: Stephen Willier
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135845336
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This comprehensive bibliography and research guide details all the works currently available on Vincenzo Bellini, the Italian opera composer best known for his work Norma, which is still regularly performed today at Covent Garden and by regional opera companies. 2001, the bicentennial anniversary of Bellini's death, saw several concerts and recordings of his work, raising his academic profile. This volume aims to meet the research needs of all students of Bellini in particular.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135845336
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This comprehensive bibliography and research guide details all the works currently available on Vincenzo Bellini, the Italian opera composer best known for his work Norma, which is still regularly performed today at Covent Garden and by regional opera companies. 2001, the bicentennial anniversary of Bellini's death, saw several concerts and recordings of his work, raising his academic profile. This volume aims to meet the research needs of all students of Bellini in particular.