| Description |
vii, 352 pages : music ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Most of the essays presented at a conference held at Cornell University, October 1986. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Appropriation in Wagner's Tristan libretto / Arthur Groos -- Boito and F.-V. Hugo's "magnificent translation" : a study in the genesis of the Otello libretto / James A. Hepokoski -- An unseen player : destiny in Pelléas et Mélisande / Susan Youens -- The origins of Italian literaturoper : Guglielmo Ratcliff, La figlia di Iorio, Parisina, and Francesca da Rimini / Jürgen Maehder -- Erik's dream and Tannhäuser's journey / Carolyn Abbate -- The languages of love in Carmen / Nelly Furman -- How to avoid believing (while reading Iago's "Credo") / Katherine Bergeron -- The numinous in Götterdämmerung / Christopher Wintle -- Musorgsky's libretti on historical themes : from the two Borises to Khovanshchina / Caryl Emerson -- Boito and the 1868 Mefistofele libretto as a reform text / William Ashbrook -- On reading nineteenth-century opera : Verdi through the looking-glass / Roger Parker -- Strauss and the pervert / Sander L. Gilman -- A deconstructive postscript : reading libretti and misreading opera / Paul Robinson. |
| Subject |
Libretto.
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Libretto. |
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Music and literature.
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Music and literature. |
| Indexed Term |
Words (Vocal music) |
| Added Author |
Groos, Arthur.
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Parker, Roger, 1951-
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| ISBN |
0691091323 alkaline paper $45.00 |
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9780691091327 alkaline paper |
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0691027099 paperback |
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9780691027098 paperback |
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