William Rothstein

The Musical Language of Italian Opera, 1813-1859 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Though studying opera often requires attention to aesthetics, libretti, staging, singers, compositional history, and performance history, the music itself is central. This book examines operatic music by five Italian composers?Rossini, Bellini, Mercadante, Donizetti, and Verdi?and one non-Italian, Meyerbeer, during the period from Rossini's first international successes to Italian unification. Detailed analyses of form, rhythm, melody, and harmony reveal concepts of musical structure different from those usually discussed by music theorists, calling into question the notion of a common practice. Taking an eclectic analytical approach, author William Rothstein uses ideas originating in several centuries, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first, to argue that operatic music can be heard not only as passionate vocality but also in terms of musical forms, pitch structures, and rhythmic patterns?that is, as carefully crafted music worth theoretical attention. Although no single theory accounts for everything, Rothstein's analysis shows how certain recurring principles define a distinctively Italian practice, one that left its mark on the German repertoire more familiar to music theorists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197609699
• Artikelnr.: 66178728

Autorenporträt

William Rothstein is Professor of Music Theory at Queens College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He previously taught at Amherst College, Oberlin College, and the University of Michigan. He is author of Phrase Rhythm in Tonal Music and co-author (with Charles Burkhart) of Anthology for Musical Analysis. He has written and lectured extensively on music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with special emphasis on musical rhythm, Schenkerian theory and analysis, and nineteenth-century Italian opera.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What is there to analyze?
Part One: La Via Italiana
Chapter 1. The Anvil Chorus
Chapter 2. Theoretical contexts I: Nineteenth-century theory
Chapter 3. Theoretical contexts II: Schenker and Riemann
Chapter 4. Rhythm and meter
Chapter 5. Musical form
Part Two: Rossini
Chapter 6. Rossini's mediants
Chapter 7. Tonal coherence in Rossini's Italian operas
Chapter 8. Guillaume Tell
Part Three: Between Rossini and Verdi
Chapter 9. Bellini and the new diatonicism
Chapter 10. Meyerbeer and the new chromaticism
Chapter 11. Around 1840: Mercadante and Donizetti
Part Four: Verdi's Sedici Anni
Chapter 12. Ernani to Attila (1844-1846)
Chapter 13. Rigoletto and Il trovatore (1851-1853)
Chapter 14. Les vêpres siciliennes to Un ballo in maschera (1854-1859)
Afterword: Verdi and His Predecessors
Selected bibliography
Index