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Publisher
Scarecrow Pr
Publication date
December 1, 2013
Pages
255
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780810884670
ISBN-10
0810884674
Dimensions
1 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.16 lbs.
Original list price
$50.00
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Titles in The Listenerâs Companion: A Scarecrow Press Music Series provide readers with a deeper understanding of key musical genres and the work of major artists and composers. Aimed at nonspecialists, each volume explains in clear and accessible language how to listen to works from particular artists, composers, and genres. Looking at the context in which the music appeared as well as its form, authors explore with readers the environments in which key musical works were written and performedâfrom a 1950s bebop concert at the Village Vanguard to a performance of Handelâs Messiah in eighteenth-century Germany.
Along with his contemporaries Chopin and Wagner, Verdi is among the few composers whose place in the musical pantheon is based almost entirely upon the mastery of a single genre. This is largely owing to his staggering output in a career that lasted over fifty years. Several of his operas occupy the nucleus of the modern repertoire, and Verdi almost single-handedly maintained the Italian lyric tradition against the tide of Wagnerian music drama. In his final years, he virtually reinvented Italian opera. Indeed, Verdiâs life and music came to be so intimately associated with the Italian unification movement known as the Risorgimento that he is still revered as a great national figure in his homeland.
In Experiencing Verdi: A Listenerâs Companion, Donald Sanders combines biography with simple, concise musical analysis. Summarizing the evolution of Italian opera and the bel canto tradition that prevailed at the beginning of Verdiâs career, Sanders takes readers on a leisurely tour of eleven of Verdiâs most important operas and of the Manzoni Requiem and concludes with a look at Verdiâs influence on later composers like Giacomo Puccini, his place in the modern repertoire, and his role as an Italian patriot.
With a timeline, glossary of basic musical terms, and selected reading and listening recommendations, Experiencing Verdi will engage opera lovers at all levels, from those just starting to listen, learn, and enjoy to musical devotees.
Along with his contemporaries Chopin and Wagner, Verdi is among the few composers whose place in the musical pantheon is based almost entirely upon the mastery of a single genre. This is largely owing to his staggering output in a career that lasted over fifty years. Several of his operas occupy the nucleus of the modern repertoire, and Verdi almost single-handedly maintained the Italian lyric tradition against the tide of Wagnerian music drama. In his final years, he virtually reinvented Italian opera. Indeed, Verdiâs life and music came to be so intimately associated with the Italian unification movement known as the Risorgimento that he is still revered as a great national figure in his homeland.
In Experiencing Verdi: A Listenerâs Companion, Donald Sanders combines biography with simple, concise musical analysis. Summarizing the evolution of Italian opera and the bel canto tradition that prevailed at the beginning of Verdiâs career, Sanders takes readers on a leisurely tour of eleven of Verdiâs most important operas and of the Manzoni Requiem and concludes with a look at Verdiâs influence on later composers like Giacomo Puccini, his place in the modern repertoire, and his role as an Italian patriot.
With a timeline, glossary of basic musical terms, and selected reading and listening recommendations, Experiencing Verdi will engage opera lovers at all levels, from those just starting to listen, learn, and enjoy to musical devotees.
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About: Titles in The Listenerâs Companion: A Scarecrow Press Music Series provide readers with a deeper understanding of key musical genres and the work of major artists and composers.
About: Titles in The Listenerâs Companion: A Scarecrow Press Music Series provide readers with a deeper understanding of key musical genres and the work of major artists and composers.
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