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Verdi and the French aesthetic : verse, stanza, and melody in nineteenth-century opera
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- Creator
- Andreas Giger
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- Language
- English
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008
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- x, 294 pages : music ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 1281751251, 0511412983, 0521878438, 0511415273, 9786611751258, 0511413904, 0511412053, 0511414595, 9780521878432, 051148139X, 1107183421, 0521349540
- OCLC
- ocn476173713, ocn181136177
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-286) and index.
- Part I. Versification and melodic aesthetics ; Rhythm and stanza in French and Italian librettos ; French and Italian melodic aesthetics and practice ca. 1830-1870 ; Episode: Design, middleground rhythm, and phrase -- Part II. French melody in Verdi's operas ; Jérusalem and its influence on the subsequent Italian operas ; Les Vêpres siciliennes and its influence on the subsequent Italian operas ; Don Carlos and after -- Appendix: Principal theoretical texts cited (arranged in chronological order by date of publication)