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Vincenzo Bellini, Norma /

Norma is by common consent the finest of the ten operas composed during Vincenzo Bellini's short career, representing his genius more comprehensively than is usually the case with any single work by an operatic composer. This 1998 handbook provides the biographical and cultural context of the o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kimbell, David R. B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Colección:Cambridge opera handbooks.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The composition of the opera
  • 2. Medea
  • Velleda
  • Norma: Romani's sources
  • 3. Synopsis and musical frame
  • 4. Music and poetry
  • 5. A glimpse of the genesis of the opera
  • 6. Some variant readings
  • 7. Contemporary reactions to Norma
  • 8. Critical fortunes since the Unification of Italy
  • 9. Five prima donnas: contributions to a performance history
  • App. I. Borrowings
  • App. II. The tonal plan of Norma
  • App. III. Liszt's 'Reminiscences de Norma'.