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Puccini's Turandot : The End of the Great Tradition /

Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, Turandot was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international repertory. In this colorful study two renowned music scholars demonstrate that this work, despite the modern climate in which it was written, was...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Ashbrook, William, 1922-2009 (Autor), Powers, Harold (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1991]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, Turandot was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international repertory. In this colorful study two renowned music scholars demonstrate that this work, despite the modern climate in which it was written, was a fitting finale for the centuries-old Great Tradition of Italian opera. Here they provide concrete instances of how a listener might encounter the dramatic and musical structures of Turandot in light of the Italian melodramma, and firmly establish Puccini's last work within the tradition of Rossini, B.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (208 pages): illustrations, music
ISBN:9781400866670