Music in the present tense : Rossini's Italian operas in their time /

Music in the present tense : Rossini's Italian operas in their time /

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Author / Creator:	Senici, Emanuele, author.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Description:	1 online resource (371 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Opera lab : explorations in history, technology, and performance Opera lab.
Subject:	Rossini, Gioacchino, -- 1792-1868. -- Operas. Rossini, Gioacchino, -- 1792-1868 -- Appreciation. Rossini, Gioacchino, -- 1792-1868. Operas (Rossini, Gioacchino) Opera -- Italy -- 19th century. Art appreciation. Opera. Italy.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11981622

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ISBN:	022666368X 9780226663685 9780226663548
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	In the early 1800s, Rossini's operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private. But after Rossini stopped composing, a sharp decline in popularity drove most of his works out of the repertory. In the past half century, they have made a spectacular return to operatic stages worldwide, but this recent fame has not been accompanied by a comparable critical reevaluation. Emanuele Senici's new book provides a fresh look at the motives behind the Rossinian furore and its aftermath by examining the composer's works in the historical context in which they were conceived, performed, seen, heard, and discussed. Situating the operas firmly within the social practices, cultural formations, ideological currents, and political events of early nineteenth-century Italy, Senici reveals Rossini's dramaturgy as a radically new and specifically Italian reaction to the epoch-making changes witnessed in Europe at the time. The first book-length study of Rossini's Italian operas to appear in English, Music in the Present Tense exposes new ways to explore nineteenth-century music and addresses crucial issues in the history of modernity, such as trauma, repetition, and the healing power of theatricality.
Other form:	Print version: Senici, Emanuele. Music in the Present Tense : Rossini's Italian Operas in Their Time. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2019 9780226663548

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Summary:	In the early 1800s, Rossini's operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private. But after Rossini stopped composing, a sharp decline in popularity drove most of his works out of the repertory. In the past half century, they have made a spectacular return to operatic stages worldwide, but this recent fame has not been accompanied by a comparable critical reevaluation.<br> <br> Emanuele Senici's new book provides a fresh look at the motives behind the Rossinian furore and its aftermath by examining the composer's works in the historical context in which they were conceived, performed, seen, heard, and discussed. Situating the operas firmly within the social practices, cultural formations, ideological currents, and political events of early nineteenth-century Italy, Senici reveals Rossini's dramaturgy as a radically new and specifically Italian reaction to the epoch-making changes witnessed in Europe at the time. The first book-length study of Rossini's Italian operas to appear in English, Music in the Present Tense exposes new ways to explore nineteenth-century music and addresses crucial issues in the history of modernity, such as trauma, repetition, and the healing power of theatricality.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (371 pages)
ISBN:	022666368X 9780226663685 9780226663548