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Vincenzo Bellini
This comprehensive bibliography and research guide details all the works currently available on Vincenzo Bellini, the Italian opera composer best known for his work Norma, which is still regularly performed today at Covent Garden and by regional opera companies. 2001, the bicentennial anniversary of Bellini's death, saw several concerts and recordings of his work, raising his academic profile. This volume aims to meet the research needs of all students of Bellini in particular.
Vincenzo Bellini
This comprehensive bibliography and research guide details all the works currently available on Vincenzo Bellini, the Italian opera composer best known for his work Norma, which is still regularly performed today at Covent Garden and by regional opera companies. 2001, the bicentennial anniversary of Bellini's death, saw several concerts and recordings of his work, raising his academic profile. This volume aims to meet the research needs of all students of Bellini in particular.
Dancing Shakespeare
Dancing Shakespeare is the first history of ballets based on William Shakespeare’s works from the birth of the dramatic story ballet in the eighteenth century to the present. It focuses on two main questions: "How can Shakespeare be danced?" and "How can dance shed new light on Shakespeare?" The book explores how librettists and choreographers have transposed Shakespeare’s complex storylines, multifaceted protagonists, rhetoric and humour into non-verbal means of expression, often going beyond the texts in order to comment on them or use them as raw material for their own creative purposes. One aim of the monograph is to demonstrate that the study of wordless performances allows us to ga...
Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music
Library Journal praises the book as "an excellent one-volume ready reference resource for students, researchers, and others interested in music history." Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music, Second Edition covers the persons, ideas, practices, and works that made up the worlds of Western music during the long 19th century (ca. 1780–1918). It’s the first book to recognize that Romantic music was very nearly a global phenomenon. It includes more women, more Black musicians and other musicians of color, and more exponents of musical Romanticism from Central and South America as well as Central and Eastern Europe than any other single-volume study of Romantic music—thus challenging the...
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Bellini
Vincenzo Bellini, una figura complessa, sfuggente. Visse solo trentaquattro anni, ma nella sua breve esistenza compose opere destinate a lasciare un segno nella storia della musica e del teatro. I biografi ne descrissero la vita come un susseguirsi di trionfi e disillusioni, abbellendola di particolari sentimentali e romanzeschi e dipingendolo come un genio dall'aspetto angelico, tanto ispirato quanto poco padrone della tecnica musicale; altri enfatizzarono al contrario il lato meno affabile del suo carattere – l'insofferenza riservata ai colleghi, il cinismo nel rapporto con le donne –, finendo per diffonderne un'immagine assai lontana dalla realtà storica. Fabrizio Della Seta racconta...
Women and Music
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