Analyzing opera : Verdi and Wagner / edited by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker.

Other author Abbate, Carolyn, editor.
Other author Parker, Roger, 1951- editor.
Other author Cornell Verdi-Wagner Conference (1984)
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©1989.
Descriptionix, 304 pages : music ; 27 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCalifornia studies in 19th century music ; 6
California studies in 19th century music ; 6. ^A174953
Contents On analyzing opera / Carolyn Abbate, Roger Parker -- The composition of Ernani / Philip Gossett -- Through the looking glass: some remarks on the first complete draft of Lohengrin / John Deathridge -- Opera as symphony, a Wagnerian myth / Carolyn Abbate -- Verdi's composition of Otello: the Act II quartet / James A. Hepokoski -- Verdi's groundswells: surveying an operatic convention / Joseph Kerman, Thomas S. Grey -- Isolde's narrative: from Hauptmotiv to tonal model / Matthew Brown -- Ritornello Ritornato: a variety of Wagnerian refrain form / Anthony Newcomb -- Motives and recurring themes in Aida / Roger Parker -- The tonality of Rigoletto / Martin Chusid -- Tonal sysems in Aida, Act III / David Lawton -- Schenker and the norns / Patrick McCreless.
General notePapers originally presented at the Cornell Verdi-Wagner Conference, Cornell University, Oct. 1984.
General noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 88021072
ISBN0520061578 (alk. paper)

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Music Music Stacks MT95 .A59 1989 ✔ Available Place Hold