Research Catalog

Title

Music in the present tense : Rossini's Italian operas in their time / Emanuele Senici.

Author

Senici, Emanuele

Publication

• Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

xii, 358 pages : music; 24 cm.

Summary

"In the early 1800s, Rossini's operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private. But after Rossini stopped composing, a sharp decline in popularity drove most of his works out of the repertory. In the past half century, they have made a spectacular return to operatic stages worldwide, but this recent fame has not been accompanied by a comparable critical reevaluation. Emanuele Senici's new book provides a fresh look at the motives behind the Rossinian furore and its aftermath by examining the composer's works in the historical context in which they were conceived, performed, seen, heard, and discussed. Situating the operas firmly within the social practices, cultural formations, ideological currents, and political events of early nineteenth-century Italy, Senici reveals Rossini's dramaturgy as a radically new and specifically Italian reaction to the epoch-making changes witnessed in Europe at the time. The first book-length study of Rossini's Italian operas to appear in English, Music in the present tense exposes new ways to explore nineteenth-century music and addresses crucial issues in the history of modernity, such as trauma, repetition, and the healing power of theatricality"--dust jacket flap.

Series Statement

Opera lab : explorations in history, technology, and performance

Uniform Title

Opera lab.

Subject

• Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868
• Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868 > Appreciation
• Operas (Rossini, Gioacchino)
• 1800-1899
• Opera > Italy > 19th century
• Art appreciation
• Opera
• Italy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-344) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Part I. Imitation ; Repetition ; Borrowing ; Style ; Genre ; Dramaturgy ; Noise -- Part II. Modernity ; Theatricality ; Repertory ; "Di tanti palpiti" ; Memory ; Pleasure ; Movement ; Belief -- Epilogue.

Call Number

JME 20-155

ISBN

• 9780226663548
• 022666354X
• 9780226663685 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019009192

OCLC

1089841612

Author

Senici, Emanuele, author.

Title

Music in the present tense : Rossini's Italian operas in their time / Emanuele Senici.

Publisher

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Opera lab : explorations in history, technology, and performance

Opera lab.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-344) and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Other Form:

ebook version : 9780226663685

Research Call Number

JME 20-155