Puccini : his life and works
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Puccini : his life and works
(Master musicians series)
Oxford University Press, 2002
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"List of works": p. 494-496
Includes bibliographical references (p. 510-517) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Since Mosco Carner's classic study, Puccini: a Critical Biography (1958, 3rd ed. 1993) a revaluation of this most popular of composers has led to a number of important publications, all of which have furnished material for the present overview. This, the first volume in the Master Musicians series devoted to Puccini, integrates life and works, placing each opera in the context of the composer's career. It traces the evolution of this musical language in relation to that of his contemporaries in Italy and abroad, as well as the development of his dramaturgical technique, with occasional reference to subjects that he hoped, yet failed to set, since these can be shown to have a bearing on those which he eventually did.
Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- KEY TO SIGLA
- 1. Early life at Lucca
- 2. The student at Milan
- 3. Le Villi
- 4. Edgar
- 5. Manon Lescaut
- 6. La boheme
- 7. Tosca
- 8. Madama Butterfly
- 9. La faniciulla del West
- 10. La rondine
- 11. Il trittico
- 12. Turandot
- 13. Puccini as man and artist
- APPENDICES
- A. Calendar
- B. List of works
- C. Personalia
- D. Select bibliography
- INDEX
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