Great Italian and French Composers

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название : Great Italian and French Composers

издатель : Dodo Press

автор : George T. Ferris

год: 2007

формат: pdf

страниц: 192

Language: English

ISBN : 9781406523751

размер архива: 1,07 мб

A title written by George Titus Ferris, detailing great Italian and French composers including Rossini and Verdi.

Music, as speaking the language of feeling, emotion, and passion, found its first full expansion in the operatic form. There had been attempts to represent drama with chorus, founded on the ancient Greek drama, but it was soon discovered that dialogue and monologue could not be embodied in choral forms without involving an utter absurdity. The spirit of the renaissance had freed poetry, statuary, and painting, from the monopolizing claims of the church. Music, which had become a well equipped and developed science, could not long rest in a similar servitude. Though it is not the aim of the author to discuss operatic history, a brief survey of the progress of opera from its birth cannot be omitted. The oldest of the entertainments which ripened into Italian opera belongs to the last years of the fifteenth century, and was the work of the brilliant Politian, known as one of the revivalists of Greek learning attached to the court of Cosmo de' Medici and his son Lorenzo.

Table of Contents:

Palestrina

Piccini, Paisiello, and Cimarosa

Rossini

Donizetti and Bellini

Verdi

Cherubini and his Predecessors

Meiül, Spontini, and Halévy

Boïeldieu and Auber

Meyerbeer

Gounod and Thomas

Berlioz