Valuing Nineteenth Century Italian Opera Fantasias for Woodwind - Trash Music

This book approaches opera fantasias - instrumental works that use themes from a single opera as the body of their virtuosic and flamboyant material - both historically and theoretically, concentrating on compositions for and by woodwind-instrument performers in Italy in the nineteenth century.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: The opera fantasia in musicological context
Chapter 2: The Italian context
Chapter 3: Genre theory and the opera fantasia
Chapter 4: Gender implications of the opera fantasia
Chapter 5: A return to musical narrative through the opera fantasia
Chapter 6: Opera fantasias on Verdi's Rigoletto, Il trovatore, and Un ballo in maschera
Conclusion

About the author

Rachel N. Becker is Assistant Professor of Musicology and Oboe at Boise State University, USA. She previously taught at the University of Cambridge, UK. Rachel's research focuses on issues of genre, virtuosity, and gender. She has published on musical ecphrasis and on gendering of woodwind instruments, and she remains active internationally as an oboist.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel N. Becker
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032491820
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3249182-0
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Routledge Research in Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / General, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Opera, Romanticism, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Art music, orchestral and formal music