The Cambridge companion to Rossini
By: edited by Emanuele Senici.
Contributors: Senici, Emanuele.
Series: Cambridge companions to music
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Rossini, Gioacchino, -- 1792-1868 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:  Rossini's operatic operas /  Emanuele Senici; title: Part I. Biography and Reception:; title: Rossini's life /  Richard Osborne; title: Rossini and France /  Benjamin Walton; title: The Rossini Renaissance /  Charles S. Brauner; title: Part II. Words and Music:; title: Librettos and librettists /  Paulo Fabbri; title: Compositional methods /  Philip Gossett; title: The dramaturgy of the operas /  Marco Beghelli; title: Melody and ornamentation /  Damien Colas; title: Off the stage /  Richard Osborne; title: Part III. Representative Operas:; title: Tancredi and Semiramide /  Heather Hadlock; title: Il barbiere di Siviglia /  Janet Johnson; title: Guillaume Tell /  Cormac Newark; title: Part IV. Performance:; title: Singing Rossini /  Leonella Grasso Caprioli; title: Staging Rossini /  Mercedes Viale Ferrero; title: Editing Rossini /  Patricia B. Brauner.