| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 206 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cambridge studies in opera
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Cambridge studies in opera.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Emilio Sala uses rare documents and images to re-examine Verdi's La traviata in the cultural context of mid-nineteenth-century Paris. |
| Contents |
Illustrations; Music examples; Translator's note; Prelude; The modernity of Verdi; The real and the imaginary; Acknowledgements; 1 Verdi and the Parisian boulevard theatre; Verdi in Paris; Le Chiffonnier de Paris; Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge; Monte-Cristo; Robert Macaire; Le Pasteur ou L'Évangile et le foyer; 2 Images and sounds in waltz (and polka) time; The lady of the camellias; The waltz; The polka; 'A vaguely ""Spanish"" character'; The lorette; The camellia; Interferences and condensations; 3 Motifs of reminiscence and musical dramaturgy; The 'fatted ox' |
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La Dame aux camélias at the VaudevilleAct 1; The rest of the play; Other musical deaths; Cross-pollinations, actualisations, backdating; System variants; Violetta's body and her 'musical gestures'; Coda; 'Oom, oom-pah-pah-oom'; Musicology and ethnomusicology; Bibliography; PRIMARY SOURCES; Archival manuscript materials; Published scores; Reviews, short articles and news reports; Literary sources (before 1900); Secondary sources; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Traviata.
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Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901 -- Travel -- France -- Paris.
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Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. |
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Travel. |
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France -- Paris. |
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Traviata (Verdi, Giuseppe) |
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Paris (France) -- In opera.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Casadei, Delia, translator.
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| Added Title |
Valzer delle camelie. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012070187
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sala, Emilio, 1959- Valzer delle camelie. English. Sounds of Paris in Verdi's La Traviata. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107009011 (DLC) 2012043981 (OCoLC)818659781 |
| ISBN |
9781107249936 (electronic book) |
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1107249937 (electronic book) |
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9780511920615 (electronic book) |
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051192061X (electronic book) |
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9781299772588 (electronic book) |
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1299772587 (electronic book) |
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9781107247444 |
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1107247446 |
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9781107009011 (hardback) |
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