Budden Julian (Chief Producer For Opera At Bbc Radio And President Of The Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini Lucca Italy. Chief Producer For Opera At Bbc Radio And President Of The Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini Lucca Italy.)
Budden Julian (Chief Producer For Opera At Bbc Radio And President Of The Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini Lucca Italy. Chief Producer For Opera At Bbc Radio And President Of The Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini Lucca Italy.) - Verdi - Paperback
Budden Julian (Chief Producer For Opera At Bbc Radio And President Of The Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini Lucca Italy. Chief Producer For Opera At Bbc Radio And President Of The Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini Lucca Italy.) - Verdi - Paperback
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Description: In this third edition of the classic Verdi renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and the artist tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy whose cause he had done much to promote and demonstrating the gradual enlargement over the years of his artistic vision. This concise study is an accessible insightful and engaging summation of Verdi scholarship acquainting the non - specialist with the personal details Verdi's life with the operatic world in which he worked and with his political ideas his intellectual vision and his powerful means of communicating them through his music. In his survey of the music itself Budden emphasizes the unique character of each work as well as the developing sophistication of Verdi's style. He covers all of the operas the late religious works the songs and the string quartet. A glossary explains even the most obscure operatic terms current in Verdi's time.
Title: Verdi
Author(s): Budden Julian (Chief Producer For Opera At Bbc Radio And President Of The Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini Lucca Italy. Chief Producer For Opera At Bbc Radio And President Of The Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini Lucca Italy.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190273989
Pages: 440 Pages, 16 Halftones, 99 Music Examples
Publication Date: 12/1/2015
Series: Composers Across Cultures
Category: Biography: Arts & Entertainment
Description: In this third edition of the classic Verdi renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and the artist tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy whose cause he had done much to promote and demonstrating the gradual enlargement over the years of his artistic vision. This concise study is an accessible insightful and engaging summation of Verdi scholarship acquainting the non - specialist with the personal details Verdi's life with the operatic world in which he worked and with his political ideas his intellectual vision and his powerful means of communicating them through his music. In his survey of the music itself Budden emphasizes the unique character of each work as well as the developing sophistication of Verdi's style. He covers all of the operas the late religious works the songs and the string quartet. A glossary explains even the most obscure operatic terms current in Verdi's time.
Title: Verdi
Author(s): Budden Julian (Chief Producer For Opera At Bbc Radio And President Of The Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini Lucca Italy. Chief Producer For Opera At Bbc Radio And President Of The Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini Lucca Italy.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190273989
Pages: 440 Pages, 16 Halftones, 99 Music Examples
Publication Date: 12/1/2015
Series: Composers Across Cultures
Category: Biography: Arts & Entertainment
