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I due Foscari: Tragedia lirica in Three Acts by Francesco Maria Piave (The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, Series I: Operas)
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Description for I due Foscari: Tragedia lirica in Three Acts by Francesco Maria Piave (The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, Series I: Operas)
Hardcover. Editor(s): Giger, Andreas. Num Pages: 670 pages. BIC Classification: AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 368 x 267. .
I due Foscari enjoys pride of place among Verdi's early operas for its commanding music and striking use of recurring themes to identify the principal characters. Here, the young composer can be seen experimenting with new means of musical and dramatic expression. This critical edition, based on Verdi's autograph score and autograph corrections in the first manuscript copy, offers the full score including powerful passages later excised by Roman censors and appendices containing sketches, fragments, rejected passages, and a substitute cabaletta for Jacopo's cavatina. With an introduction and detailed critical commentary, this edition provides performers, conductors, students, and scholars with ... Read more
I due Foscari enjoys pride of place among Verdi's early operas for its commanding music and striking use of recurring themes to identify the principal characters. Here, the young composer can be seen experimenting with new means of musical and dramatic expression. This critical edition, based on Verdi's autograph score and autograph corrections in the first manuscript copy, offers the full score including powerful passages later excised by Roman censors and appendices containing sketches, fragments, rejected passages, and a substitute cabaletta for Jacopo's cavatina. With an introduction and detailed critical commentary, this edition provides performers, conductors, students, and scholars with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
670
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226074511
SKU
V9780226074511
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About Giuseppe Verdi
Andreas Giger is the Louise and Kenneth L. Kinney Professor of Opera at Louisiana State University. He is author of Verdi and the French Aesthetic: Verse, Stanza, and Melody in Nineteenth-Century Opera.
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