Puccini's Turandot The End of the Great Tradition |
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| Author:
| Ashbrook, William
Powers, Harold |
| Series title: | Princeton Studies in Opera Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-02712-8 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1991 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $58.00 |
Book Description:
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A study of two renowned music scholars that demonstrates that this work, despite the modern climate in which it was written, was a fitting finale for the centuries-old Great Tradition of Italian opera. It provides concrete instances of how a listener might encounter the dramatic and musical structures of Turandot.
A study of two renowned music scholars that demonstrates that this work, despite the modern climate in which it was written, was a fitting finale for the centuries-old Great Tradition of Italian opera. It provides concrete instances of how a listener might encounter the dramatic and musical structures of Turandot.