- 所属丛书系列
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- 文档格式
书名: The Cambridge Companion to Verdi (Cambridge Companions to Music)
作者: Scott L. Balthazar (Editor)
出版社: Cambridge University Press (December 13, 2004)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0521635357
ISBN-13: 978-0521635356
Book Description
This Companion provides a biographical, theatrical, and social-cultural background for Verdi's operas, examines in detail important general aspects of its style and method of composing, and synthesizes stylistic themes in discussions of representative works. Aspects of Verdi's milieu, style, creative process, and critical reception are explored in essays by highly reputed specialists. Like others in the series this Companion is aimed primarily at students and opera lovers.
Review
'...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.
