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Just for the Ladies? Compilation, Knowledge Practice and Pasticcio in England around 1720
In 1719, the Royal Academy of Music was founded with the purpose of setting Italian opera in England on solid ground. Previously, at least two thirds of the Italian operas staged in London had been pasticci.
Knoth Ina
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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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The Emergence of the Modern Conductor [PDF]
During the first half of the 19th c., the duty of directing Italian opera was divided between the maestro al cembalo (sometimes known as the maestro concertatore) and the direttore d\u27orchestra, with greater responsibility falling on the former.
Jensen, Luke
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The Role of Diction and Gesture in Italian Baroque opera [PDF]
Early Italian Baroque opera (ca. 1600-ca. 1770) was drama-oriented; Monteverdi and the composers of the Camerata emphasized diction and gesture or acting in the portrayal of characters.
Termini, Olga
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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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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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Verdi’s six-fours and la parola scenica [PDF]
Verdi’s operas display many non-normative six-four chords. The question for the opera analyst, however, is not only what occurs musically, but why it does. Is there a dramatic function being served by this mix of harmonic-intervallic instability?
Burton, D., Sanguinetti, G.
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Verismo is an Italian term that came to be used in reference to literature, theatre, and opera during the end of the nineteenth century. According to William Berger, “verismo is often translated as ‘realism’ but the word is closer to ‘truth’ in Italian.”
Leah P. Bartlam
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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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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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