Verdi Paperback / softback
by Julian (Chief Producer for Opera at BBC Radio and President of the Centro Studi Giacomo Pucc Budden
Part of the Composers Across Cultures series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:440 pages, 16 halftones, 99 music examples
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:11/02/2016
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- ISBN:9780190273989
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:440 pages, 16 halftones, 99 music examples
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:11/02/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9780190273989