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Giacomo Puccini
Die geläufige Annahme, die Opern von Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) seien sehr bekannt und weil sie so bekannt sind, wäre auch ihr Gehalt erkannt, hat sich als trügerisch erwiesen. Die Forschung ist gefordert - mehr denn je.0Umgekehrt wäre es aber genauso falsch anzunehmen, bei Erforschung ihres Gehaltes die Opern Puccinis als bekannt vorauszusetzen. Im Mittelpunkt des Heftes steht Puccinis Spätwerk, das aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven betrachtet wird. Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Heftes nähern sich dem Komponisten Puccini sowohl als einem unbekannten Bekannten als auch als einem bekannten Unbekannten.0Das Heft enthält Beiträge von Sieghart Döhring, Richard Erkens, Anselm Gerhard, Laurenz Lütteken, Panja Mücke und Clemens Risi.
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Il trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's late style
Giacomo Puccini is one of the most frequently performed and best loved of all operatic composers. In Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style, Andrew Davis takes on the subject of Puccini's last two works to better understand how the composer creates meaning through the juxtaposition of the conventional and the unfamiliar -- situating Puccini in past operatic traditions and modern European musical theater. Davis asserts that hearing Puccini's late works within the context of la solita forma allows listeners to interpret the composer's expressive strategies. He examines Puccini's compositional language, with insightful analyses of melody, orchestration, harmony, voice-leading, and rhythm and meter.
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Giacomo Puccini and his world
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing on Puccini for the first time, offers a variety of new critical perspectives on the composer and his works. Containing discussions of all of Puccini's operas from Manon Lescaut (1893) to Turandot (1926), this volume aims to move beyond clichâes of the composer as a Romantic epigone and to re-situate him at the heart of early twentieth-century musical modernity. This collection's essays explore Puccini's engagement with spoken theater and operetta, and with new technologies like photography and cinema. Other essays consider the philosophical problems raised by \"realist\" opera, discuss the composer's place in a variety of cosmopolitan formations, and reevaluate Puccini's orientalism and his complex interactions with the Italian fascist state. A rich array of primary source material, including previously unpublished letters and documents, provides vital information on Puccini's interactions with singers, conductors, and stage directors, and on the early reception of the verismo movement. Excerpts from Fausto Torrefranca's notorious \"Giacomo Puccini and International Opera\", perhaps the most vicious diatribe ever directed against the composer, appear here in English for the first time [Publisher description]
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A Vision of the Orient
Best known as the story from the 1904 Puccini opera, the compelling modern myth of Madame Butterfly has been read, watched, and re-interpreted for over a century, from Pierre Loti's 1887 novelMadame Chrysanthèmeto A.R. Gurney's 1999 playFar East. This fascinating collaborative volume examines the Madame Butterfly narrative in a wide variety of cultural contexts - literary, musical, theatrical, cinematic, historical, and political - and in a variety of media - opera, drama, film, and prose narratives - and includes contributions from a wide range of academic disciplines, such as Asian Studies, English Literature, Theatre, Musicology, and Film Studies.
From its original colonial beginnings, the Butterfly story has been turned about and inverted in recent years to shed light back on the nature of the relationship between East and West, remaining popular in its original version as well as in retellings such as David Henry Hwang's playM. Butterflyand David Cronenberg's screen adaptation. The combined perspectives that result from this collaboration provide new and challenging insights into the powerful, resonant myth of a painful encounter between East and West.
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Aesthetic technologies of modernity, subjectivity, and nature
Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed. Aesthetic Technologies addresses how music (especially opera), the phonograph, and film served as cultural agents facilitating the many extraordinary social, artistic, and cultural shifts that characterized the new century and much of what followed long thereafter, even to the present. Three tropes are central: the tensions and traumas—cultural, social, and personal—associated with modernity; changes in human subjectivity and its engagement and representation in music and film; and the more general societal impact of modern media, sound recording (the development of the phonograph in particular), and the critical role played by early-century opera recording. A principal focus of the book is the conflicted relationship in Western modernity to nature, particularly as nature is perceived in opposition to culture and articulated through music, film, and sound as agents of fundamental, sometimes shocking transformation. The book considers the sound/vision world of modernity filtered through the lens of aesthetic modernism and rapid technological change, and the impact of both, experienced with the prescient sense that there could be no turning back.
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The Italian Traditions and Puccini
In this groundbreaking survey of the fundamentals, methods, and formulas that were taught at Italian music conservatories during the 19th century, Nicholas Baragwanath explores the compositional significance of tradition in Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Boito, and, most importantly, Puccini. Taking account of some 400 primary sources, Baragwanath explains the varying theories and practices of the period in light of current theoretical and analytical conceptions of this music. The Italian Traditions and Puccini offers a guide to an informed interpretation and appreciation of Italian opera by underscoring the proximity of archaic traditions to the music of Puccini.
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Giovanni Rosadi, \antico amico\ di Giacomo Puccini
The essay aims to illustrate the \"ancient\" friendship between Giovanni Rosadi and Giacomo Puccini, which began in their early teens and lasted uninterrupted until the year of Puccini's death. Valuable evidence can be found in the correspondence between the two. In addition to distant memories, the two were also linked by their relationship with their hometown, from which they lived more or less distant. An exchange of correspondence from 1911 provides an opportunity to examine one of Rosadi's many legislative initiatives, that of the reform of the copyright law. Rosadi had proposed a reduction of the period of protection on musical works to only ten years. Puccini had also publicly expressed his strong dissent on the matter, joining the choral reaction of composers that had found wide space in the press. The episode did not interrupt the correspondence or break the friendship: Puccini's last letter to Rosadi, written on 30 October 1924, a few days before he departed for Brussels, bears witness to this.
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