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Childflight
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Deborah Stimson-Snow, Janet Stimson
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R156
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Songscape
(Paperback)
Deborah Stimson-Snow, Janet Stimson
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R164
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A catalogue of music manuscripts from the fourteenth to the
twentieth centuries in the Houghton Library and the Eda Kuhn Loeb
Music Library. Includes descriptions of works by Bach, Liszt,
Mahler, Mozart, Purcell, Schoenberg, Schubert, Strauss, Wagner, and
many others.
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Shy
(Hardcover)
E-V And Simone Banks
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R552
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Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme is one of the most frequently performed
operas in the world. But how did it come to be so adored? In this
book, author Alexandra Wilson traces La Boheme's rise to fame and
demonstrates that its success grew steadily through stage
performances, recordings, filmed versions and the endorsements of
star singers. More recently, popular songs, film soundtracks and
musicals that draw on the opera's music and themes added further to
its immense cultural impact. This cultural history offers a fresh
reading of a familiar work. Wilson argues that La Boheme's approach
to realism and its flouting of conventions of the Italian operatic
tradition made it strikingly modern for the 1890s. She explores how
Puccini and his librettists engaged with gender, urban poverty and
nostalgia-themes that grew out of the work's own time and continue
to resonate with audiences more than 120 years later. Her analysis
of the opera's depiction of Paris reveals that La Boheme was not
only influenced by the romantic mythologies surrounding the city to
this day but also helped shape them. Wilson's consideration of how
directors have reinvented this opera for a new age completes this
fascinating history of La Boheme, making it essential reading for
anyone interested in this opera and the works it inspired.
I complain bitterly of the editions of my last operas, made with
such little care, and filled with an infinite number of errors.
Giuseppe Verdi The University of Chicago Press, in collaboration
with Casa Ricordi, has undertaken to publish the first critical
edition of the complete works of Giuseppe Verdi. The series, based
exclusively on original sources, is the only one to present
authentic versions of all of the composer's works; together with
his operas, the critical edition presents his songs, his choral
music and sacred pieces, and his string quartet and other
instrumental works. The Works of Giuseppe Verdi will be an
invaluable standard reference work a necessary acquisition for all
music libraries and a joy to own for all lovers of opera. The new
series of study scores presents an adaptation of each critical
edition that provides scholars with an affordable and portable
option for exploring Verdi's oeuvre. The study scores have been
designed to distinguish editors' marks from Verdi's own notations
while remaining clear enough for use in performance. The
introduction to each score discusses the work's sources,
composition, and performance history, as well as performance
practices, instrumentation, and problems of notation. The newest
editions of the study scores examine two of Verdi's three-act
operas: La traviata and Rigoletto.
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