Verdi's Macbeth: A Sourcebook
New York: W.W. Norton, 1984. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; black and white illustrated dj with white and blue lettering, mylar cover; xvi, 527 pp; illustrations, facsimiles, music. VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep. Light shelfwear but pages are very clean and clear.). Item #185498
ISBN: 9780393950731
In part a collection of papers delivered at the Fifth International Congress of Verdi Studies, Centre College, Danville, Ky., 1977, held under the auspices of the American Institute for Verdi Studies. Contents: Letters and other documents.; The Danville papers:; Florence, 1847.; José Verdi, Hercules Cavalli, and the Florence Macbeth /; Mary Jane Phillips Matz ;; Verdi's Macbeth and the Florentine critics /; Leonardo Pinzauti --; Verdi, Shakespeare, and the libretto.; The Shakespeare Verdi knew /; William Weaver ;; Madness, hallucination, and sleepwalking /; Jonas Barish ;; Observations on the genesis of Verdi's Macbeth /; Francesco Degrada --; Paris, 1865.; The Verdi-Escudier correspondence about Macbeth /; Ursula Günther ;; Macbeth in Paris : new iconographical documents /; H. Robert Cohen --; Composition and performance.; Toward a critical edition of Macbeth /; Philip Gossett ;; Observations on the autograph of Macbeth I /; David Lawton ;; Macbeth : notes on the instrumentation of the two versions /; Julian Budden ;; Aspects of the production of Macbeth /; Marcello Conati ;; Vocal gesture in Verdi's Macbeth /; Marilyn Feller Somville ;; Translating Macbeth /; Andrew Porter --; Essays in analysis.; Evil, guilt, and the supernatural in Verdi's Macbeth : toward an understanding of the tonal structure and key symbolism /; Martin Chusid ;; On the tonal organization of Macbeth II /; Daniel Sabbeth ;; Macbeth, Attila, and Verdi's self-modeling /; Gary Tomlinson ;; The banquet scene from Verdi's Macbeth : an experiment in large-scale musical form /; John Knowles.; Documents:; Publication history.; The autograph and the early editions /; Martin Chusid ;; The libroni, and additional notes on Ricordi publications of Macbeth /; David Rosen --; The libretto.; The "Scala" Macbeth libretto : a genetic edition /; Francesco Degrada ;; The 1865 libretto drafts.; A note on Shakespeare's Macbeth /; August Wilhelm Schlegel ;; The preface in the Ricordi libretto.; Verdi and the Italian translations of Shakespeare's Macbeth /; Andrew Porter ;; A note on censorship.; Macbetto : ballo mimico in cinque atti (excerpt) /; Luigi Henry.; Intermezzo:; Two great ladies.; Adelaide Ristori ;; Pauline Viardot.; Reviews and other published commentary:; Macbeth I.; The Florence premiere, 1847, and some later productions --; Interlude : the abortive Théâtre-Italien production --; Macbeth II.; The Paris premiere, 1865 --; Five figurini (costume designs) for Macbeth --; A note by "Folchetto" --; Macbeth, from studio sulle opere di Giuseppe Verdi /; by Abramo Basevi ; translated by Edward Schneider.; Appendices:; A hundred years of Macbeth : performances and casts /; Tom Kaufman and others --; Other music for Macbeth --; Macbeth on records --; Glossary --; Personalia --; A table of revisions and a concordance of four piano-vocal scores /; Martin Chusid.; The 1847 libretto.; Pages from the 1847 Macbeth : piano-vocal score.; Grand duet (Act I, excerpt) ;; "Trionfai" (Act II) ;; The banquet scene (excerpt) ;; The apparitions scene (excerpt) ;; "Vada in fiamme" (Act III) ;; The exiles' chorus (Act IV) ;; Macbeth's death scene (Act IV). Includes bibliographical references (page 464)./ Includes indexes. Includes pages from the 1847 vocal score of Macbeth containing the principal episodes revised and recomposed in 1865.
OCLC: 7272361
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