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Puccini : his international art

Author: Michele Girardi
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Girardi considers Puccini's musical and dramatic techniques together, demonstrating how his manipulation of dense networks of themes, sophisticated harmonic techniques, and masterly orchestrations work to arouse the audience's emotions. Girardi also discusses the question of Puccini's assimilation of influences from composers as diverse as Verdi, Wagner, Bizet, Richard Strauss, Debussy, and Stravinsky, showing how  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Critique et interprétation
Named Person: Giacomo Puccini; Giacomo Puccini
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Michele Girardi
ISBN: 0226297578 9780226297576
OCLC Number: 42291010
Notes: Originally published as: Giacomo Puccini : l'arte internazionale di un musicista italiani. Venezia : Marsilio, c1995.
Description: xvi, 530 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. A dynasty of composers --
2. Scapigliatura interlude --
3. Manon Lescaut : Wagner and the eighteenth century --
4. La Bohéme : the poetic reality --
5. Tosca : Rome between faith and power --
6. Madama Butterfly : an exotic tragedy --
7. Puccini in the twentieth century --
8. Wars, à la operetta --
9. Experimental dramaturgy --
10. Turandot!
Other Titles: Giacomo Puccini.
Responsibility: Michele Girardi ; translated by Laura Basini.
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This text provides an analysis of Puccini's operas, complete with 190 musical examples. It considers his musical and dramatic techniques, demonstrating how his manipulation of dense networks of  Read more...

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"A serious, long-overdue analysis of all of Puccini's great operas, filled with fascinating detail." - Reed Woodhouse, Boston Book Review "Girardi takes us through the operas, act by act, showing us Read more...

 
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