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Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera by Philip Gossett Estimated deliv… Mehr…

Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera by Philip Gossett Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.&quot;Divas and Scholars&quot; is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett&#039;s personal experiences of triumphant&mdash;and even failed&mdash;performances and suffused with his towering and tonic passion for music. Writing as a fan, a musician, and a scholar, Gossett, the world&#039;s leading authority on the performance of Italian opera, brings colorfully to life the problems, and occasionally the scandals, that attend the production of some of our most favorite operas.Gossett begins by tracing the social history of nineteenth-century Italian theaters in order to explain the nature of the musical scores from which performers have long worked. He then illuminates the often hidden but crucial negotiations opera scholars and opera conductors and performers: What does it mean to talk about performing from a critical edition? How does one determine what music to perform when multiple versions of an opera exist? What are the implications of omitting passages from an opera in a performance? In addition to vexing questions such as these, Gossett also tackles issues of ornamentation and transposition in vocal style, the matters of translation and adaptation, and even aspects of stage direction and set design.Throughout this extensive and passionate work, Gossett enlivens his history with reports from his own experiences with major opera companies at venues ranging from the Metropolitan and Santa Fe operas to the Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro. The result is a book that willenthrall both aficionados of Italian opera and newcomers seeking a reliable introduction to it&mdash;in all its incomparable grandeur and timeless allure. Publisher Description "Divas and Scholars" is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett's personal experiences of triumphant - and even failed - performances and suffused with his towering passion for music. Gossett, the world's leading authority on the performance of Italian opera, brings to life the problems, and occasionally the scandals, that attend the production of some of our favorite operas.Gossett begins by tracing the social history of nineteenth-century Italian theaters in order to explain the nature of the musical scores from which performers have long worked. He then illuminates the often hidden but crucial negotiations between what is written and how it is interpreted by opera conductors and performers. Throughout, Gossett enlivens his history with reports from his own experiences with major opera companies at venues ranging from the Metropolitan and Santa Fe operas to the Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro.The result is a book that will enthrall both aficionados of Italian opera and newcomers seeking a reliable introduction to it - in all its incomparable grandeur and timeless allure. Author Biography Philip Gossett is the Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor in Music and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the general editor of the Works of Giuseppe Verdi, published by the University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi, and the Works of Gioachino Rossini. In 2004 he received one of four lifetime achievement awards given by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and in 1998 he received the Cavaliere di Gran Croce, the highest civilian award given by the Italian government. Details ISBN 0226304825 ISBN-13 9780226304823 Title Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera Author Philip Gossett Format Hardcover Year 2006 Pages 675 Edition 1st Publisher University of Chicago Press GE_Item_ID:6900700; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. 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What are the implications of omitting passages from an opera in a performance?. - Patrick O'Connor, Literary Review "To my knowledge, there is no other book like it. - Charles Rosen, New … Mehr…

What are the implications of omitting passages from an opera in a performance?. - Patrick O'Connor, Literary Review "To my knowledge, there is no other book like it. - Charles Rosen, New York Review of Books". The Nile on eBay   Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera by Philip Gossett Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.&quot;Divas and Scholars&quot; is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett&#039;s personal experiences of triumphant&mdash;and even failed&mdash;performances and suffused with his towering and tonic passion for music. Writing as a fan, a musician, and a scholar, Gossett, the world&#039;s leading authority on the performance of Italian opera, brings colorfully to life the problems, and occasionally the scandals, that attend the production of some of our most favorite operas.Gossett begins by tracing the social history of nineteenth-century Italian theaters in order to explain the nature of the musical scores from which performers have long worked. He then illuminates the often hidden but crucial negotiations opera scholars and opera conductors and performers: What does it mean to talk about performing from a critical edition? How does one determine what music to perform when multiple versions of an opera exist? What are the implications of omitting passages from an opera in a performance? In addition to vexing questions such as these, Gossett also tackles issues of ornamentation and transposition in vocal style, the matters of translation and adaptation, and even aspects of stage direction and set design.Throughout this extensive and passionate work, Gossett enlivens his history with reports from his own experiences with major opera companies at venues ranging from the Metropolitan and Santa Fe operas to the Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro. The result is a book that willenthrall both aficionados of Italian opera and newcomers seeking a reliable introduction to it&mdash;in all its incomparable grandeur and timeless allure. FORMATHardcover LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description "Divas and Scholars" is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett's personal experiences of triumphant - and even failed - performances and suffused with his towering passion for music. Gossett, the world's leading authority on the performance of Italian opera, brings to life the problems, and occasionally the scandals, that attend the production of some of our favorite operas.Gossett begins by tracing the social history of nineteenth-century Italian theaters in order to explain the nature of the musical scores from which performers have long worked. He then illuminates the often hidden but crucial negotiations between what is written and how it is interpreted by opera conductors and performers. Throughout, Gossett enlivens his history with reports from his own experiences with major opera companies at venues ranging from the Metropolitan and Santa Fe operas to the Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro.The result is a book that will enthrall both aficionados of Italian opera and newcomers seeking a reliable introduction to it - in all its incomparable grandeur and timeless allure. Author Biography Philip Gossett is the Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor in Music and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the general editor of the Works of Giuseppe Verdi, published by the University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi, and the Works of Gioachino Rossini. In 2004 he received one of four lifetime achievement awards given by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and in 1998 he received the Cavaliere di Gran Croce, the highest civilian award given by the Italian government. Table of Contents Preface PROLOGUE 1. Mare o monti : Two Summer Festivals PART I - KNOWING THE SCORE 2.Setting the Stage 3. Transmission versus Tradition 4. Scandal and Scholarship 5. The Romance of the Critical Edition INTERMEZZO 6. Scholars and Performers: The Case of Semiramide PART II - PERFORMING THE OPERA 7. Choosing a Version 8. Serafin's Scissors 9. Ornamenting Rossini 10. Higher and Lower: Transposing Bellini and Donizetti 11. Words and Music: Texts and Translations 12. Instruments Old and New 13.From the Score to the Stage CODA 14. Two Kings Head North: Italian Opera in Scandinavia Notes Glossary Bibliography Index to Operas and Performances General Index Review "Philip Gossett is a superb scholar, but he is also a true man of the theater." - G. W. Bowersock, New Republic "This enthralling and important book offers vital reading for anyone with a serious interest in opera.... Written with unfailing clarity and waspish wit, it charts the musical problems, both theoretical and practical, presented by the autograph manuscripts, printed scores, and performances of this great corpus." - Rupert Christiansen, Spectator "The depth and scope of Gossett's book... makes it one that will be of immense value to anyone approaching the subject of opera in the so-called age of belcanto." - Patrick O'Connor, Literary Review "To my knowledge, there is no other book like it. No one else has treated an important genre of half a century in its social and political setting, its stylistic development, together with a detailed history of its dissemination and performance over a century and a half.... All of this is accomplished by a prose style sensible, often original, provocative, learned, technical but lucid, and always entertaining.... Philip Gossett shows a tolerance and a largeness of spirit rare in those scholars who have so much passion." - Charles Rosen, New York Review of Books" Review Quote "To my knowledge, there is no other book like it. No one else has treated an important genre of half a century in its social and political setting, its stylistic development, together with a detailed history of dissemination and performance over a century and a half. . . . All of this is accomplished by a prose style sensible, often original, provocative, learned, technical but lucid, and always entertainingand, most remarkably, in only 603 succinct pages. . . . Gossett shows a tolerance and a largeness of spirit rare in those scholars who have so much passion." Charles Rosen,New York Review of Books Details ISBN0226304825 Author Philip Gossett Short Title DIVAS & SCHOLARS Pages 675 Publisher University of Chicago Press Language English ISBN-10 0226304825 ISBN-13 9780226304823 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 782.109 Illustrations Yes Year 2006 Publication Date 2006-08-31 Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle Performing Italian Opera Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Edition 1st Residence US DOI 10.1604/9780226304823 UK Release Date 2006-09-15 AU Release Date 2006-09-15 NZ Release Date 2006-09-15 US Release Date 2006-09-15 We've got thisAt The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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The Nile on eBay   Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera by Philip Gossett Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.&quot;Divas and Scholars&quot; is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett&#039;s personal experiences of triumphant&mdash;and even failed&mdash;performances and suffused with his towering and tonic passion for music. Writing as a fan, a musician, and a scholar, Gossett, the world&#039;s leading authority on the performance of Italian opera, brings colorfully to life the problems, and occasionally the scandals, that attend the production of some of our most favorite operas.Gossett begins by tracing the social history of nineteenth-century Italian theaters in order to explain the nature of the musical scores from which performers have long worked. He then illuminates the often hidden but crucial negotiations opera scholars and opera conductors and performers: What does it mean to talk about performing from a critical edition? How does one determine what music to perform when multiple versions of an opera exist? What are the implications of omitting passages from an opera in a performance? In addition to vexing questions such as these, Gossett also tackles issues of ornamentation and transposition in vocal style, the matters of translation and adaptation, and even aspects of stage direction and set design.Throughout this extensive and passionate work, Gossett enlivens his history with reports from his own experiences with major opera companies at venues ranging from the Metropolitan and Santa Fe operas to the Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro. The result is a book that willenthrall both aficionados of Italian opera and newcomers seeking a reliable introduction to it&mdash;in all its incomparable grandeur and timeless allure. FORMATHardcover LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description "Divas and Scholars" is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett's personal experiences of triumphant - and even failed - performances and suffused with his towering passion for music. Gossett, the world's leading authority on the performance of Italian opera, brings to life the problems, and occasionally the scandals, that attend the production of some of our favorite operas.Gossett begins by tracing the social history of nineteenth-century Italian theaters in order to explain the nature of the musical scores from which performers have long worked. He then illuminates the often hidden but crucial negotiations between what is written and how it is interpreted by opera conductors and performers. Throughout, Gossett enlivens his history with reports from his own experiences with major opera companies at venues ranging from the Metropolitan and Santa Fe operas to the Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro.The result is a book that will enthrall both aficionados of Italian opera and newcomers seeking a reliable introduction to it - in all its incomparable grandeur and timeless allure. Author Biography Philip Gossett is the Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor in Music and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the general editor of the Works of Giuseppe Verdi, published by the University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi, and the Works of Gioachino Rossini. In 2004 he received one of four lifetime achievement awards given by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and in 1998 he received the Cavaliere di Gran Croce, the highest civilian award given by the Italian government. Table of Contents Preface PROLOGUE 1. Mare o monti : Two Summer Festivals PART I - KNOWING THE SCORE 2.Setting the Stage 3. Transmission versus Tradition 4. Scandal and Scholarship 5. The Romance of the Critical Edition INTERMEZZO 6. Scholars and Performers: The Case of Semiramide PART II - PERFORMING THE OPERA 7. Choosing a Version 8. Serafin's Scissors 9. Ornamenting Rossini 10. Higher and Lower: Transposing Bellini and Donizetti 11. Words and Music: Texts and Translations 12. Instruments Old and New 13.From the Score to the Stage CODA 14. Two Kings Head North: Italian Opera in Scandinavia Notes Glossary Bibliography Index to Operas and Performances General Index Review "Philip Gossett is a superb scholar, but he is also a true man of the theater." - G. W. Bowersock, New Republic "This enthralling and important book offers vital reading for anyone with a serious interest in opera.... Written with unfailing clarity and waspish wit, it charts the musical problems, both theoretical and practical, presented by the autograph manuscripts, printed scores, and performances of this great corpus." - Rupert Christiansen, Spectator "The depth and scope of Gossett's book... makes it one that will be of immense value to anyone approaching the subject of opera in the so-called age of belcanto." - Patrick O'Connor, Literary Review "To my knowledge, there is no other book like it. No one else has treated an important genre of half a century in its social and political setting, its stylistic development, together with a detailed history of its dissemination and performance over a century and a half.... All of this is accomplished by a prose style sensible, often original, provocative, learned, technical but lucid, and always entertaining.... Philip Gossett shows a tolerance and a largeness of spirit rare in those scholars who have so much passion." - Charles Rosen, New York Review of Books" Review Quote "To my knowledge, there is no other book like it. No one else has treated an important genre of half a century in its social and political setting, its stylistic development, together with a detailed history of dissemination and performance over a century and a half. . . . All of this is accomplished by a prose style sensible, often original, provocative, learned, technical but lucid, and always entertainingand, most remarkably, in only 603 succinct pages. . . . Gossett shows a tolerance and a largeness of spirit rare in those scholars who have so much passion." Charles Rosen,New York Review of Books Details ISBN0226304825 Author Philip Gossett Short Title DIVAS & SCHOLARS Pages 675 Publisher University of Chicago Press Language English ISBN-10 0226304825 ISBN-13 9780226304823 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 782.109 Illustrations Yes Year 2006 Publication Date 2006-08-31 Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle Performing Italian Opera Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Edition 1st Residence US DOI 10.1604/9780226304823 UK Release Date 2006-09-15 AU Release Date 2006-09-15 NZ Release Date 2006-09-15 US Release Date 2006-09-15 We've got thisAt The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.Divas and S… Mehr…

Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett’s personal experiences of triumphant—and even failed—performances and suffused with his towering and tonic passion for music. Writing as a fan, a musician, and a scholar, Gossett, the world's leading authority on the performance of Italian opera, brings colorfully to life the problems, and occasionally the scandals, that attend the production of some of our most favorite operas. Gossett begins by tracing the social history of nineteenth-century Italian theaters in order to explain the nature of the musical scores from which performers have long worked. He then illuminates the often hidden but crucial negotiations opera scholars and opera conductors and performers: What does it mean to talk about performing from a critical edition? How does one determine what music to perform when multiple versions of an opera exist? What are the implications of omitting passages from an opera in a performance? In addition to vexing questions such as these, Gossett also tackles issues of ornamentation and transposition in vocal style, the matters of translation and adaptation, and even aspects of stage direction and set design. Throughout this extensive and passionate work, Gossett enlivens his history with reports from his own experiences with major opera companies at venues ranging from the Metropolitan and Santa Fe operas to the Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro. The result is a book that will enthrall both aficionados of Italian opera and newcomers seeking a reliable introduction to it—in all its incomparable grandeur and timeless allure.   Trade Books>Hardcover>Music>Opera>Opera, University of Chicago Press Core >2<