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Giacomo Puccini and His World
Arman (Ed) Schwartz
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Description for Giacomo Puccini and His World
Paperback. Editor(s): Senici, Emanuele; Schwartz, Arman. Series: The Bard Music Festival. Num Pages: 360 pages, 20 halftones. 10 tables. nine musical examples. BIC Classification: AVGC9; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 516.
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing on Puccini for the first time, offers a variety of new critical perspectives on the composer and his works. Containing discussions of all of Puccini's operas from Manon Lescaut (1893) to Turandot (1926), this volume aims to move beyond cliches of the composer as a Romantic epigone and to resituate him at the heart of early twentieth-century musical modernity. This collection's essays explore Puccini's engagement ... Read more
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing on Puccini for the first time, offers a variety of new critical perspectives on the composer and his works. Containing discussions of all of Puccini's operas from Manon Lescaut (1893) to Turandot (1926), this volume aims to move beyond cliches of the composer as a Romantic epigone and to resituate him at the heart of early twentieth-century musical modernity. This collection's essays explore Puccini's engagement ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Bard Music Festival
Condition
New
Weight
515g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691172866
SKU
V9780691172866
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About Arman (Ed) Schwartz
Arman Schwartz is a Birmingham Fellow in Music at the University of Birmingham and a member of the editorial board of Opera Quarterly. Emanuele Senici is professor of music history at the University of Rome la Sapienza and a former editor of the Cambridge Opera Journal.
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The collection is an amazing potpourri of Puccini scholarship.
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