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The sounds of Paris in Verdi's La Traviata /

Emilio Sala uses rare documents and images to re-examine Verdi's La traviata in the cultural context of mid-nineteenth-century Paris.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Sala, Emilio, 1959-
Autres auteurs: Casadei, Delia (Traducteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Italiano
Publié: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Collection:Cambridge studies in opera.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Illustrations; Music examples; Translator's note; Prelude; The modernity of Verdi; The real and the imaginary; Acknowledgements; 1 Verdi and the Parisian boulevard theatre; Verdi in Paris; Le Chiffonnier de Paris; Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge; Monte-Cristo; Robert Macaire; Le Pasteur ou L'Évangile et le foyer; 2 Images and sounds in waltz (and polka) time; The lady of the camellias; The waltz; The polka; 'A vaguely ""Spanish"" character'; The lorette; The camellia; Interferences and condensations; 3 Motifs of reminiscence and musical dramaturgy; The 'fatted ox'
  • La Dame aux camélias at the VaudevilleAct 1; The rest of the play; Other musical deaths; Cross-pollinations, actualisations, backdating; System variants; Violetta's body and her 'musical gestures'; Coda; 'Oom, oom-pah-pah-oom'; Musicology and ethnomusicology; Bibliography; PRIMARY SOURCES; Archival manuscript materials; Published scores; Reviews, short articles and news reports; Literary sources (before 1900); Secondary sources; Index.