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- catalog abstract ""Gilles de Van focuses on an often neglected aspect of Verdi's operas: their effectiveness as theater. De Van argues that two main aesthetic conceptions underlie all of Verdi's works: that of the "melodrama" and the "musical drama." In the melodrama the composer relies mainly on dramatic intensity and the rhythm linking various stages of the plot, using exemplary characters and situations. But in the musical drama reality begins to blur, the musical forms lose their excessively neat patterns, and doubt and ambiguity undermine characters and situations, reflecting the crisis of character typical of modernity."--BOOK JACKET. "Indeed, much of the interest and originality of Verdi's operas lie in his adherence to both these contradictory systems, allowing the composer/dramatist to be simultaneously classical and modern, traditionalist and innovator."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog alternative "Verdi, un théâtre en musique. English".
- catalog contributor b10604779.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""Gilles de Van focuses on an often neglected aspect of Verdi's operas: their effectiveness as theater. De Van argues that two main aesthetic conceptions underlie all of Verdi's works: that of the "melodrama" and the "musical drama." In the melodrama the composer relies mainly on dramatic intensity and the rhythm linking various stages of the plot, using exemplary characters and situations. But in the musical drama reality begins to blur, the musical forms lose their excessively neat patterns, and doubt and ambiguity undermine characters and situations, reflecting the crisis of character typical of modernity."--BOOK JACKET. "Indeed, much of the interest and originality of Verdi's operas lie in his adherence to both these contradictory systems, allowing the composer/dramatist to be simultaneously classical and modern, traditionalist and innovator."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "1. Verdi, dramatist -- 2. Aesthetics -- 3. Working on the libretto -- 4. Melodrama -- 5. Metamorphoses I -- 6. Metamorphoses II -- 7. Music drama -- 8. Unity -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of Verdi operas.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-409) and indexes.".
- catalog extent "ix, 424 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226143694 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0226143708 (paper : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "782.1/092 21".
- catalog subject "ML410.V4 V2313 1998".
- catalog subject "Opera Dramaturgy.".
- catalog subject "Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Operas.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Verdi, dramatist -- 2. Aesthetics -- 3. Working on the libretto -- 4. Melodrama -- 5. Metamorphoses I -- 6. Metamorphoses II -- 7. Music drama -- 8. Unity -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of Verdi operas.".
- catalog title "Verdi's theater : creating drama through music / Gilles de Van ; translated from the French by Gilda Roberts.".
- catalog title "Verdi, un théâtre en musique. English".
- catalog type "text".