The New Grove Masters of Italian Opera

The New Grove Masters of Italian Opera
Author: Philip Gossett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1983
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780393303612

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 Limelight Book of Opera

The Limelight Book of Opera
Author: Arthur Jacobs
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1985
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780879100445

Biographical sketches of the composers and critical interpretations of their productions accompany these summaries of eighty-seven famous operas

Italian Opera

Italian Opera
Author: David R. B. Kimbell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 708
Release: 1991
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521466431

David Kimbell traces the history of Italian opera from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.

The New Grove Haydn

The New Grove Haydn
Author: Jens Peter Larsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1997-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393303599

Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Bellini
Author: Stephen Willier
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2009-09-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1135845344

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.

Italian Baroque Masters

Italian Baroque Masters
Author: Denis Arnold
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1997-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393303605

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most up-to-date body of musical knowledge ever gathered together.

Galileo and the ‘Invention’ of Opera

Galileo and the ‘Invention’ of Opera
Author: F. Kersten
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2013-04-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9401589313

Intended for scholars in the fields of philosophy, history of science and music, this book examines the legacy of the historical coincidence of the emergence of science and opera in the early modern period. But instead of regarding them as finished products or examining their genesis, or `common ground', or `parallel' ideas, opera and science are explored by a phenomenology of the formulations of consciousness (Gurwitsch) as compossible tasks to be accomplished in common (Schutz) which share an ideal possibility or `essence' (Husserl). Although the ideas of Galileo and Monteverdi form the parameters of the domain of phenomenological clarification, the scope of discussion extends from Classical ideas of science and music down to the beginning of the nineteenth century, but always with reference to the experience of sharing the sociality of a common world from which they are drawn (Plessner) and to which those ideas have given shape, meaning and even substance. At the same time, this approach provides a non-historicist alternative to understanding the arts and science of the modern period by critically clarifying the idea of whether their compossibility can rest on any other formulation of consciousness.

Rossini and Post-Napoleonic Europe

Rossini and Post-Napoleonic Europe
Author: Warren Roberts
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 1580465307

Warren Roberts has discovered a Rossini that others have not seen, a composer who commented ironically and satirically on religion and politics in Post-Napoleonic Europe.

The New Grove Handel

The New Grove Handel
Author: Winton Dean
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1983
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393303582

This is the first full-length study of Handel by Winton Dean, who has long been recognized as the leading expert on the composer and his works, the operas and oratorios in particular. It charts his career both before and after he moved to England and pays particular attention to his stage works. Book jacket.