Verdi's Middle Period - Source Studies, Analysis, and Performance Practice

During the middle phase of his career, Verdi adopted new compositional procedures to create some of his best-loved and most-performed works. This volume explores Verdi's work from three interlinked perspectives: studies of the original source material, cross-disciplinary analyses of musical and textual issues, and the relationship of performance practice to Verdi's musical and dramatic conception.

Summary

During the middle phase of his career, Guiseppe Verdi adopted new compositional procedures to create some of his best-known works. Focusing on the operas he composed during this period, this volume explores Verdi's work from three interlinked perspectives.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Chusid, Martin Chusod
• Assisted by: Martin Chusid (Editor), Philip Gossett (Editor), Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.01.1998
• EAN: 9780226106595
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10659-5
• No. of pages: 444
• Dimensions: 17 mm x 24 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 709 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Opera, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters