Verdi’s Middle Period
Source Studies, Analysis, and Performance Practice
- Contents
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Toward an Understanding of Verdi’s Middle Period
Martin Chusid
1: New Sources for Stiffelio: A Preliminary Report
Philip Gossett
2: Compositional Techniques in Stiffelio: Reading the Autograph Sources
Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell
3: "A Monk and At Least Some New Things": Verdi, Cammarano, and L’assedio di Firenze
Carlo Matteo Mossa
4: "Insolite forme," or Basevi’s Garden Path
Roger Parker
5: Ottocento Opera as Cultural Drama: Generic Mixtures in Il trovatore
James Hepokoski
6: "Something’s Been Done to Make Room for Choruses": Choral Conception and Choral Construction in Luisa Miller
Markus Engelhardt
7: A New Source for El trovador and Its Implications for the Tonal Organization of Il trovatore
Martin Chusid
8: "Proud, Indomitable, Irascible": Allegories of Nation in Attila and Les Vepres siciliennes
Mary Ann Smart
9: Masking Music: A Reconsideration of Light and Shade in Un ballo in maschera
Elizabeth Hudson
10: "La dama velata": Act II of Un ballo in maschera
Harold Powers
11: Meter, Character, and Tinta in Verdi’s Operas
David Rosen
12: Aspects of Tempo in Verdi’s Early and Middle-Period Italian Operas
Roberta Montemorra Marvin
13: The Violin Director and Verdi’s Middle-Period Operas
Linda B. Fairtile
List of Contributors
Index
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Toward an Understanding of Verdi’s Middle Period
Martin Chusid
1: New Sources for Stiffelio: A Preliminary Report
Philip Gossett
2: Compositional Techniques in Stiffelio: Reading the Autograph Sources
Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell
3: "A Monk and At Least Some New Things": Verdi, Cammarano, and L’assedio di Firenze
Carlo Matteo Mossa
4: "Insolite forme," or Basevi’s Garden Path
Roger Parker
5: Ottocento Opera as Cultural Drama: Generic Mixtures in Il trovatore
James Hepokoski
6: "Something’s Been Done to Make Room for Choruses": Choral Conception and Choral Construction in Luisa Miller
Markus Engelhardt
7: A New Source for El trovador and Its Implications for the Tonal Organization of Il trovatore
Martin Chusid
8: "Proud, Indomitable, Irascible": Allegories of Nation in Attila and Les Vepres siciliennes
Mary Ann Smart
9: Masking Music: A Reconsideration of Light and Shade in Un ballo in maschera
Elizabeth Hudson
10: "La dama velata": Act II of Un ballo in maschera
Harold Powers
11: Meter, Character, and Tinta in Verdi’s Operas
David Rosen
12: Aspects of Tempo in Verdi’s Early and Middle-Period Italian Operas
Roberta Montemorra Marvin
13: The Violin Director and Verdi’s Middle-Period Operas
Linda B. Fairtile
List of Contributors
Index
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