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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 September 2011
      29 April 2004
      ISBN:
      9781139000994
      9780521807364
      9780521001953
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521807364
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.626kg, 288 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 282 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Music, Opera, Music: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Music
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    Subjects:
    Music, Opera, Music: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Music
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    This 2004 Companion is a collection of specially commissioned essays on one of the most influential opera composers in the repertoire. The volume is divided into four parts, each exploring an important element of Rossini's life, his world, and his works: biography and reception; words and music; representative operas; and performance. Within these sections accessible chapters, written by a team of specialists, examine Rossini's life and career; the reception of his music in the nineteenth century and today; the librettos and their authors; the dramaturgy of the operas; and Rossini's non-operatic works. Additional chapters centre on key individual operas chosen for their historical importance or position in the present repertoire, and include Tancredi, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Semiramide, and Guillaume Tell. The last section, Performance, focuses on the history of Rossini's operas from the viewpoint of singing and staging, as well as the influence of editorial work on contemporary performance practice.

    Reviews

    ‘This scholarly, extensive overview of Rossini's operas, liturgical works and piano and vocal works reflects the dramatic turnaround in appreciation that has occurred in the last fifty years or so.‘

    Source: Music Web International

    '…offers many hours of thoroughly delectable and mostly instructive reading.'

    Source: Nineteenth-Century Music Review

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