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The Cambridge Companion to Verdi (Cambridge Companions to Music)
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Product Description
Providing biographical, theatrical, and social-cultural background for Verdi's operas, this Companion examines important general aspects of their style and method of composition. Verdi's milieu, creative process, and critical reception are subsequently explored in essays by specialists who critically appraise his accomplishments.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #241109 in Books
- Published on: 2004-12-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 364 pages
Editorial Reviews
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'...offers many hours of thoroughly delectable and mostly instructive reading.' Nineteenth-Century Music Review
About the Author
Scott L. Balthazar is Professor of Music History at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. He has lectured and published on stylistic aspects of nineteenth-century Italian opera and on contemporary theories of instrumental form in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Dr Balthazar is a contributor to the revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and his articles and reviews have appeared in a number of musicological journals.
Customer Reviews
Usual committee-written stuff
The rage nowadays is multi-authorship. The result--as here--is an irregular and unbalanced study. Some of the essays--notably those by the editor--are quite good. Some are technical studies. Some are just plain bad writing. All in all, a mixed bag
