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Applies the notion of musical "voice" to diverse repertoires, ranging from the operas and cantatas of Handel to the autograph albums of nineteenth-century collector Charlotte de Rothschild. The concept of musical voice has been a subject of controversy in recent decades, as the primacy of the composer's place in the creation of the work has been called into question. The essays in Word, Image, and Song: Essays onMusical Voices take the notion of musical voice as a starting point, and apply it in varying ways to diverse repertoires and music-historical circumstances, ranging from the operas and cantatas of Handel to the autograph albums of nineteenth-century collector Charlotte de Rothschild. Rather than attributing interpretive control to the composer, performer, or audience alone, these essays present a range of interpretive strategies with respect to the various voices that one might hear and understand as emerging from a musical work: the composer's voice, the performer's voice, the patron's voice, the collector's voice, and the social or receptive voice. Contributors: Bathia Churgin, Rebecca Cypess, Roger Freitas, Philip Gossett, Ellen T. Harris, Joseph Kerman, Nathan Link, Daniel R. Melamed, Giovanni Morelli, Kristina Muxfeldt, Ruth Smith, Ruth A. Solie. Rebecca Cypess is Assistant Professor of Music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Beth L. Glixon is instructor in musicology at the University of Kentucky School of Music. Nathan Link is NEH Associate Professor of Music at Centre College.
This definitive biography and critical study of the great 18th-century composer features full-chapter treatments of Rameau's operas and ballets as well as his chamber music, cantatas and motets, and minor works.
In this classic biography of composer Giuseppe Verdi, Frank Walker reveals Verdi the man through his connections with the individuals who knew him best. "Walker focuses on some of the more significant people in Verdi's life and carefully scrutinizes his relationships with them. His wife, Giuseppina Strepponi; his student and amanuensis, Emanuele Muzio; the conductor who first fully understood Verdi's mature art, Angelo Mariani; the great prima donna, Teresa Stolz; the incomparable librettist and friend of his old age, Arrigo Boito-each passes before our eyes in Walker's meticulous reconstruction. As we learn more about them, we learn more about Verdi. We see him through the eyes of his closest friends, we watch his daily activities, his daily thoughts, his habits, his warmth, his domestic tyranny. The myth dissolves and a human being stands before us."-Philip Gossett, from the introduction
Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American
Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. "Divas and
Scholars" is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to
the stage, filled with Philip Gossett's personal experiences of
triumphant--and even failed--performances and suffused with his
towering and tonic passion for music. Writing as a fan, a musician,
and a scholar, Gossett, the world's leading authority on the
performance of Italian opera, brings colorfully to life the
problems, and occasionally the scandals, that attend the production
of some of our most favorite operas.
Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American
Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. "Divas and
Scholars" is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to
the stage, filled with Philip Gossett's personal experiences of
triumphant--and even failed--performances and suffused with his
towering and tonic passion for music. Writing as a fan, a musician,
and a scholar, Gossett, the world's leading authority on the
performance of Italian opera, brings colorfully to life the
problems, and occasionally the scandals, that attend the production
of some of our most favorite operas.
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