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As his era’s most prolific writer of ballad operas, Henry Fielding knew music well and was particularly outspoken about Italian opera, the reigning London fashion of the day.
Charles Trainor
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ITALY: THE WORLD OF MUSIC AND BELCANTO
The most powerful incentive in the study of Italian is undoubtedly the Italian culture and music at the forefront. It was in Italy that the modern system of musical notation originated a thousand years ago. The Italian musical notes relating to the tempo
E. V. Orel
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Giacomo Puccini’s artistic creation spans a period of 40 years, from 1884 to 1924, during which time he composed 12 works. This small number proves once again the great artistic exigency of the composer.
Ursachi Doina Dimitriu
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Nicola Porpora’s operas for the ‘opera of the nobility’:the poetry and the music [PDF]
Studies of Italian opera in London during the first half of the eighteenth century have focussed on George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). As the most prolific composer of this genre in the English capital, this is unsurprising, but it has meant that other ...
Dumigan, Darryl Jacqueline
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Murder at the Opera: “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “I Pagliacci”
Pietro Mascagni's “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Ruggero Leoncavallo's “I Pagliacci” are the most important operas of the Italian Risorgimento period. These two operas complete each other, both chronologically and subject matters as works reflecting the ...
Bülent AYYILDIZ
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L’opera e l’insegnamento dell’italiano nel mondo
Each year the Italian government chooses a topic as the focus of the ‘week of Italian in the world’, to be held late in October. Researchers, institutions and practitioners in the field of Italian as a FL are asked to focus their work on the topic of ...
Balboni, Paolo E.
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The Enlightenment of Italian Opera to the Development of Chinese Opera
In early 1920s, under the impact of the wave of Western culture, traditional Chinese music faced unprecedented difficulties. This article combines the development history and representative repertoire of Western operas repre- sented by Italy and Chinese national operas, and puts forward insights on the development trend of Chinese national operas and ...
Yue Pan, Huiling Jiang
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This article seeks to contribute to the ongoing revision of the historiography on eighteenth-century Russian music in general, and Russian opera in particular.
Анна Джуст
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Teatro del Siglo de Oro y ópera italiana del Seiscientos: un balance
In 1992, during the 15th Conference of the International Musicological Society, a round table about «Spanish and French Theater in Italian Opera of the Seventeenth Century» took place in Madrid.
Anna Tedesco
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RECONFIGURING OPERA IN THE 19TH CENTURY: THE EVOLUTION AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF ARRIGO BOITO’S MEFISTOFELE [PDF]
The evolution of Arrigo Boito’s opera Mefistofele is emblematic of the transformation of Italian opera at the end of the 19th century, reflecting the cultural dynamism of Milan.
SUCIU, ALEXANDRU
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