Opera Ser.: Recondite Harmony : The Operas of Puccini by Deborah Burton (2013, Trade Paperback)

Pendragon Press

1576472124

9781576472125

144145209

330 Pages

English

Recondite Harmony : the Operas of Puccini

Genres & Styles / Opera, Individual Composer & Musician

2013

Textbook

Deborah Burton

Music

Opera Ser.

Trade Paperback

0.7 in

19 Oz

9.1 in

6.5 in

Scholarly & Professional

2012-035273

23

Volume 3

Yes

782.1092

Who is Puccini? Most debates about the composer are focused on his cultural and musical identity: is his music traditional or progressive? The thesis of this volume is that the diametrically opposed forces of the traditional and the progressive live together in Puccini's music, embedded deeply within his harmonic constructs and in many musical parameters. Recondite Harmony is a study of all of Puccini's operas examined through a primarily analytic lens. It offers essays on salient aspects of each of the operas while tracing in them both progressive and traditional elements. The volume is divided into two parts: in the first, approaches that inform the entire corpus of Puccini's operas are examined. The second half of the book is devoted to brief essays discussing interesting aspects of each of his operas. Techniques in each opus that merit analytic attention are highlighted and discussed in relation to the drama at hand, individuating more fully musical aspects special to each score. Included are also previously unpublished source material and autograph sketches., Who is Puccini? Most debates about the composer are focused on his cultural and musical identity: is his music traditional or progressive? The thesis of this volume is that the diametrically opposed forces of the traditional and the progressive live together in Puccini's music, embedded deeply within his harmonic constructs and in many musical parameters.

ML410.P89B87 2012