Valuing Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera Fantasias for Woodwind Instruments - Rachel N. Becker

Valuing Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera Fantasias for Woodwind Instruments

Trash Music
Buch | Hardcover
236 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-49176-9 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
This book approaches opera fantasias – instrumental works that use themes from a single opera as the body of their virtuosic and flamboyant material – both historically and theoretically, concentrating on compositions for and by woodwind-instrument performers in Italy in the nineteenth century.

Important overlapping strands include the concept of virtuosity and its gradual demonization, the strong gendered overtones of individual woodwind instruments and of virtuosity, the distinct Italian context of these fantasias, the presentation and alteration of opera narratives in opera fantasias, and the technical and social development of woodwind instruments. Like opera itself, the opera fantasia is a popular art form, stylistically predictable yet formally flexible, based heavily on past operatic tradition and prefabricated materials. Through archival research in Italy, theoretical analysis, and exploration of European cultural contexts, this book clarifies a genre that has been consciously stifled and societal resonances that still impact music reception and performance today.

Rachel N. Becker is Assistant Professor of Musicology and Oboe at Boise State University, USA. She previously taught at the University of Cambridge, UK. Rachel’s research focuses on issues of genre, virtuosity, and gender. She has published on musical ecphrasis and on gendering of woodwind instruments, and she remains active internationally as an oboist.

Introduction

Chapter 1: The opera fantasia in musicological context

Chapter 2: The Italian context

Chapter 3: Genre theory and the opera fantasia

Chapter 4: Gender implications of the opera fantasia

Chapter 5: A return to musical narrative through the opera fantasia

Chapter 6: Opera fantasias on Verdi’s Rigoletto, Il trovatore, and Un ballo in maschera

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Research in Music
Zusatzinfo 10 Tables, black and white; 26 Halftones, black and white; 26 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 612 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-10 1-032-49176-0 / 1032491760
ISBN-13 978-1-032-49176-9 / 9781032491769
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