Music in the Theater (eBook)

Essays on Verdi and Other Composers

Pierluigi Petrobelli (Autor)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6377-8 (ISBN)

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Well-known for leading audiences to a new appreciation of Verdi as a subtle and elaborate musical thinker, Pierluigi Petrobelli here turns his attention to the intriguing question of how musical theater works. In this collection of lively, penetrating essays, Petrobelli analyzes specific operas, mainly by Verdi, in terms of historical context, musical organization, and dramaturgical conventions.Originally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Opera
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Opera
• Übersetzer: Roger L. Parker
• Zusatzinfo: 12 halftones, 65 music exs.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Schlagworte: Aida • Alessandro (opera) • Alzira (opera) • Ambience (sound recording) • Ballata • Bar (music) • Cabaletta • Carolyn Abbate • cavalieri • Cavatina • Cello • Charles Osborne (music writer) • Clarinet • Composer • Comprimario • Critical edition (opera) • Dance Music • declamation • Don Giovanni • Dramma giocoso • Dramma per Musica • elements of music • english national opera • Ernani • Expressive potential (electronic music) • Fermata • for example • Franz Liszt • Gioachino Rossini • Giulia Grisi • Giuseppe Verdi • Grand opera • I due Foscari • Il Trovatore • In the Audience • Intonation (music) • I puritani • italian opera • Julian Budden • La Forza del Destino • La Scala • La Sonnambula • La straniera • La Traviata • Leitmotif • Le Roi s'amuse • Libretto • Luigi Dallapiccola • Luigi Lablache • Luisa Miller • Melodramma • Melody • Messa (Puccini) • Metre (music) • minuet • Modulation (music) • musical analysis • Musical development • musical expression • Musical Form • musical language • Musical Theatre • Music History • Music Is • musicology • Nabucco • Niggas in Paris • Oberto (opera) • Opera • Opera Seria • Ornament (music) • Otello • Otello (Rossini) • paris opera • Parody • Philip Gossett • Phrase (music) • Poliuto • Quarter note • quatrain • Rehearsal letter • Revue • Richard Wagner • Rigoletto • Salvadore Cammarano • Set piece (filmmaking) • Solita forma • Stiffelio • Teatro Carignano • Teatro della Pergola • The Orchestra • The Soloist • This Is the Moment • tonality • Tonic (music) • tutti • Un Ballo in Maschera • Va, pensiero • Vincenzo Bellini • Voice exchange
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6377-5 / 1400863775
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6377-8 / 9781400863778