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Music in the Present Tense: Rossini's Italian Operas in Their Time
Contributor(s): Senici, Emanuele (Author)
ISBN: 022666354X     ISBN-13: 9780226663548
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
OUR PRICE:   $58.41  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: November 2019
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles - Opera
- Music | History & Criticism - General
- History | Europe - Italy
Dewey: 782.109
LCCN: 2019009192
Series: Opera Lab: Explorations in History, Technology, and Performa
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.46 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Italy
 
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Publisher Description:
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.

Contributor Bio(s): Senici, Emanuele: - Emanuele Senici is professor of music history at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. He is the author of Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera: The Alpine Virgin from Bellini to Puccini and the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Rossini.