Music and nation
Subtitle: essays on the time of German and Italian unifications
By: Sergio Durante
Contributors: Kelly, Thomas Forrest, writer of preface; Harvard University. Department of Music
Publisher: Harvard University Department of Music
Published: 2019
Place of publication: [Cambridge, Massachusetts]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9780964031791
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Nationalism in music; Music; History and criticism; History
Notes: "Essays 2, 3, and 4 were first given as spoken papers for a general audience as De Bosis Lectures in the History of Italian Civilization at Harvard University on Sept. 22, Oct. 20, and Nov. 10, 2011. A version of essay 2 has been published in Dramma giocoso. Four contemporary perspectives on the Mozart-Da Ponte Operas (Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2012)"--Title page verso.

Includes preface and biographical notes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English text.
Table of contents: title: Between Germany and Italy: tropes of nationality and music --; title: Don Giovanni vs. Don Juan and back --; title: Mazzini as a music critic --; title: Visions and revisions of risorgimento music --; title: A taste of Italy or, Wagner before Wagner.