Complete Operas Of Verdi A Critical Guide

Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Operas of Verdi written by Charles Osborne and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1970 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of all of Verdi's operas. This work of the British music critic Charles Osborne covers Verdi's complete operatic oeuvre--including the missing choral works, songs, a string quartet, and the Messa da Requiem. The operas of Shakespeare's Falstaff and Othello show how the legendary composer added both depth and dignity to the Italian operatic repertoire. In this volume, every Verdi opera is explored from four points of view: 1) Verdi's life at the time each was written; 2) the story, and the way it links with the music; 3) the libretto and librettist, and Verdi's relations with his publishers; 4) and the music itself, analyzed with examples from the score.

Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Atheneum Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Operas of Puccini written by Charles Osborne and published by Atheneum Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Puccini wrote only twelve operas during a long life--three of them one-acters designed to be performed together--he has to be ranked today as the world's most popular composer of opera. His La Boh

Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Operas of Mozart written by Charles Osborne and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Osborne provides detailed descriptions of the major operas by Mozart in a volume that serves as both a biography and a critical guide to the composer's oeuvre. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : London : Grange Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856277907
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Operas of Wagner written by Charles Osborne and published by London : Grange Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199727810
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Grove Guide to Verdi and His Operas written by Roger Parker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information on the lives of individual composers, their works, their librettists and interpreters, and the places where they performed. These unique books compile the meticulously researched articles into organized narratives, designed to make finding information as easy as possible without sacrificing readability. Each volume is completely up-to-date, and includes a suggested listening guide and an eight-page glossy insert containing relevant illustrations. Each volume is a must-own for lovers of opera and classical music. Giuseppe Verdi is the most famous Italian composer of opera. While he was sometimes criticized for writing music considered too "simple," his works have endured, and are still performed throughout the world today. This concise volume is a handy guide to the Verdi's life and operas, revising the original New Grove articles and adding a new introduction, a new section on modern Verdi productions, and an updated bibliography.

Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Bright Sparks
ISBN 13 : 9781856277952
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Operas of Strauss written by Charles Osborne and published by Bright Sparks. This book was released on 1995 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Berger
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307756335
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verdi With a Vengeance written by William Berger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you could possibly know about Verdi and his operas, from the brilliant and humorous author of Wagner Without Fear. If you want to know why La traviata was actually a flop at its premiere in 1853, it's in here. If you want to know why claiming to have heard Bjorling's Chicago performance of Il trovatore is the classic opera fan faux pas, it's in here. Even if you just want to know how to pronounce Aida, or what the plot of Rigoletto is all about, this is the place to look. From the composer's intense hatred of priests to synopses of the operas and a detailed discography of the best recordings to buy, it can all be found in Verdi with a Vengeance. William Berger has given another improbable performance, serving up a book as thorough as it is funny and as original as it is astute, an utterly indispensable guide for novice and expert alike.

Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book “The” Complete Operas of Mozart written by Charles Osborne and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Osborne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 349 pages
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Download or read book The compelte operas of Mozart written by Charles Osborne and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carolyn Abbate
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520310810
Total Pages : 468 pages
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Download or read book Analyzing Opera written by Carolyn Abbate and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing Opera: Verdi and Wagner explores the latest developments in opera analysis by considering, side by side, the works of the two greatest opera composers of the nineteenth century. Although the juxtaposition is not new, comparative studies have tended to view these masters as radically different both as musicians and as musical dramatists. Wagner and his "symphonic opera" set against Verdi "the melodist" is one of many familiar antitheses, and it serves to highlight the particular terms from which comparisons are often made. In this book some of the leading and most innovative music scholars challenge this view, suggesting that as we become more distant from the nineteenth century, we may see that Verdi and Wagner confronted largely similar problems, and even on occasion found similar solutions. But more than this, Analyzing Opera sets out to demonstrate the richness and variety of modern analytical approaches to the genre. As the editors point out in their introduction, today's musical scholars increasingly question the usefulness of organicist theories in analytical studies, and, as they do so, opera seems to become an ever more central area of investigation. Opera is peculiar: its clash of verbal, musical, and visual systems can produce incongruities and extravagant miscalculations. It invites a multiplicity of approaches, challenges orthodoxy, and embraces ambiguity. The sheer variety of essays presented here is witness to this fact and suggests that analyzing opera is one of the liveliest (and most polemical) areas in modern-day musical scholarship. Contributors: Philip Gossett, John Deathridge, James A. Hepokoski, Joseph Kerman, Thomas S. Grey, Matthew Brown, Anthony Newcomb, Martin Chusid, David Lawton, and Patrick McCreless. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.