| Puccini the Thinker: The Composer's Intellectual and Dramatic Development Contributor(s): Digaetani, John Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820452149 ISBN-13: 9780820452142 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $56.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General - Literary Criticism | European - Italian - Music | Genres & Styles - Opera |
| Dewey: 782.109 |
| LCCN: 00048754 |
| Physical Information: 228 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 'Puccini the Thinker' traces Puccini's development as an opera composer and thinker. The subject is the composer's ideas as they appear in his operas. The book, written for the operagoer and the admirer of Puccini's operas in addition to the musicologist, has chapters on all of Puccini's operas and divides them into three general categories: myth and vision; God, religion, and the Roman Catholic Church; and economics, politics, and society. Within these three subdivisions, this study explores the growth of Puccini's thought and dramatic skill. In this book John DiGaetani analyzes the operas as artistic reflections of Puccini's intellectual and dramatic development. The book includes translations of many of the composer's own verses, the first translations into English for most of these poems. |