Gioachino Rossini : a research and information guide /

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Author / Creator:Gallo, Denise P.
Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint:New York : Routledge, 2010.
Description:xxx, 385 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Routledge music bibliographies
Routledge music bibliographies.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8063958
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ISBN:9780415994576 (hardback : alk. paper)
0415994578 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780203890486 (ebook : alk. paper)
0203890485 (ebook : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • A brief overview of Rossini studies
  • Purpose and scope of the volume
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chronology of Rossini's life
  • 1. Archives and collections, bibliographies and indexes, and catalogs
  • Archives and collections
  • Bibliographies and indexes
  • Catalogs
  • 2. Correspondence and documents
  • General collections
  • Studies drawn from correspondence
  • Letters organized by correspondent
  • Rossini's style and language in correspondence
  • 3. Iconographies and exhibition catalogs
  • Biographical iconography
  • Scenographic iconography
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • 4. Biographies and general studies of Rossini's career
  • Nineteenth-century biographies and personal accounts
  • Analyses of nineteenth-century commentaries
  • Biographical studies published between 1900 and 1950
  • Biographical studies published between 1950 and the present
  • Specialized studies
  • 5. Studies of Rossini's contemporaries
  • Rossini's parents: Giuseppe and Anna (Guidarini) Rossini
  • Rossini's wives: Isabella Colbran and Olympe Pélissier
  • Rossini's acquaintances and colleagues
  • Composers
  • Impresarios and theatrical administrators
  • Librettists
  • Musicians
  • Publishers
  • Singers
  • Other contemporaries
  • 6. Conference and congress reports
  • 7. Performance history, reception, and locative studies
  • Performance history
  • Reception
  • Locative studies
  • 8. Rossini's historical position and influence
  • General studies
  • Contemporary assessments of Rossini
  • Rossini's influence on the music of others
  • Rossini and literature
  • Commemorative publications and studies
  • 9. Studies of Rossini's music
  • General studies
  • Nineteenth-century commentaries
  • Twentieth- and twenty-first-century commentaries
  • Rossini's style and contemporary aesthetic debate
  • Specialized studies
  • 10. Rossini's operas
  • Reference works
  • General studies
  • Style and characteristics
  • Studies of musical form and structures
  • Vocal characteristics and interpretation
  • Libretto studies
  • Studies of versions
  • The seria works
  • The semiseria and buffa works
  • Scenography
  • "Rossini Renaissance": modern interpreters and productions
  • 11. Studies of individual operas
  • Demetrio e Polibio
  • La cambiale di matrimonio
  • L'equivoco stravagante
  • L'inganno felice
  • Ciro in Babilonia, ossia La caduta di Baldassare
  • La scala di seta
  • La pietra del paragone
  • L'occasione fa il ladro
  • Il signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo
  • Tancredi
  • L'italiana in Algeri
  • Aureliano in Palmira
  • Il turco in Italia
  • Sigismondo
  • Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra
  • Torvaldo e Dorliska
  • Il barbiere di Siviglia
  • La gazzetta
  • Otello, ossia Il moro di Venezia
  • La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo
  • La gazza ladra
  • Armida
  • Adelaide di Borgogna
  • Mosè in Egitto
  • Adina, ossia il Califfo di Bagdad
  • Ricciardo e Zoraide
  • Ermione
  • Eduardo e Cristina
  • La donna del lago
  • Bianca e Falliero, ossia Il consiglio dei tre
  • Maometto II
  • Matilde di Shabran, ossia Bellezza, e cuor di ferro
  • Zelmira
  • Semiramide
  • Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del giglio d'oro
  • Le siège de Corinthe (L'assedio di Corinto)
  • Moïse et Pharaon (Mosè)
  • Le comte Ory
  • Guillaume Tell
  • Pastiches
  • Unfulfilled operatic plans
  • 12. Non-operatic works
  • General studies
  • Sacred music
  • Cantatas, incidental music, hymns, choruses
  • Choral music
  • Miscellaneous vocal music
  • Instrumental music
  • Music for bands
  • Péchés de vieillesse
  • Spurious works/attributions
  • 13. Discographies and videographics
  • 14. Libretto collections and editions
  • General collections
  • Selected editions and translations
  • 15. Editions and editing practices
  • Editing Rossini critical editions
  • Specific issues in editing Rossini
  • 16. Rossini Internet resources
  • Websites dedicated to Rossini
  • Opera festival websites
  • Appendix
  • Catalog of Rossini's compositions
  • Editions and facsimiles
  • Critical editions of librettos
  • Locations of premieres of Rossini's operas
  • Rossini's librettists
  • Notes
  • Index of authors, editors, and translators
  • Subject index