Nabucco Libretto

Nabucco Libretto

Author: Giuseppe Verdi

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-07-23

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9781535340878

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This edition includes Italian libretto along with an English line by line translation for the opera goer to use.


Verdi's Nabucco

Verdi's Nabucco

Author: Burton D. Fisher

Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing

Published: 2003-02-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1102009490

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The Man Verdi

The Man Verdi

Author: Frank Walker

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 0226871320

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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


Verdi's NABUCCO

Verdi's NABUCCO

Author: Burton Fisher

Publisher:

Published: 2017-03

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781942317234

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A comprehensive study guide of Verdi's 3rd opera, featuring Principals Characters; Brief Story Analysis; Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples; insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis; newly translated Libretto with Itlaian and English translations side-by-side.


A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany

A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany

Author: Lily E. Hirsch

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2011-12-27

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0472034979

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Examines the complicated history of a Jewish cultural organization supported by Nazi Germany


Seduction and Power

Seduction and Power

Author: Silke Knippschild

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1441154205

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This volume focuses on the reception of antiquity in the performing and visual arts from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. It explores the tensions and relations of gender, sexuality, eroticism and power in reception. Such universal themes dictated plots and characters of myth and drama, but also served to portray historical figures, events and places from Classical history. Their changing reception and reinterpretation across time has created stereotypes, models of virtue or immoral conduct, that blend the original features from the ancient world with a diverse range of visual and performing arts of the modern era.The volume deconstructs these traditions and shows how arts of different periods interlink to form and transmit these images to modern audiences and viewers. Drawing on contributions from across Europe and the United States, a trademark of the book is the inclusive treatment of all the arts beyond the traditional limits of academic disciplines.


The Gift of Music

The Gift of Music

Author: Jane Stuart Smith

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780891078692

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Fascinating descriptions of forty leading composers whose faith, or lack of it, had an influence on Western civilization. Indexed. Great for all students of music.


Musical Biography

Musical Biography

Author: Jolanta T. Pekacz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1351556967

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Musical biography has rarely been an object of theoretical and methodological reflection. Our present-day perception of the lives of prominent composers and performers of the past has been largely formed by cultural and political assumptions of nineteenth-century biographers and their twentieth-century followers. While older biographies are being scrutinized for veracity and 'updated' with new evidence, their historiographical premisses and narrative techniques remain largely unchallenged. The epistemological upheavals in the humanities since the 1960s have generated a body of theoretical thought that has undermined many of the assumptions of traditional biography. Consequently, many of these assumptions have lost their hold as viable underpinnings for present-day scholarly biography. For example, the accumulation of facts is no longer believed to bring us closer to an understanding of the subject; nor are the traditional views of the unified self and the self as a foundational idea taken for granted. This volume brings together musicologists and historians who explore, through individual case studies, the rich potential of these new theories for writing musical lives. The authors of this volume examine how the insights provided by these theories illuminate our critical reassessment of older biographies - and the interpretations of musical works these biographies were used to construe - and help forge new approaches to musical biography. The authors also explore the functions musical biographies served in different historical contexts, the relevance of biography for musical criticism, the reliability of archival evidence, the ethics of biography, the demands placed on biography by feminist and gender history, and the new possibilities offered by cinema. The contributors to this volume challenge the view that biography has little importance for music history, analysis, and criticism. Collectively, they reassert biography's centrality and relevance, and dem


Italian Literature Before 1900 in English Translation

Italian Literature Before 1900 in English Translation

Author: Robin Healey

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 1185

ISBN-13: 1442642696

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"Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists works from all genres and subjects, and includes translations wherever they have appeared across the globe. In this annotated bibliography, Robin Healey covers over 5,200 distinct editions of pre-1900 Italian writings. Most entries are accompanied by useful notes providing information on authors, works, translators, and how the translations were received. Among the works by over 1,500 authors represented in this volume are hundreds of editions by Italy's most translated authors - Dante Alighieri, [Niccoláo] Machiavelli, and [Giovanni] Boccaccio - and other hundreds which represent the author's only English translation. A significant number of entries describe works originally published in Latin. Together with Healey's Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature."--Pub. desc.