Vincenzo Bellini, Norma /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Cambridge opera handbooks
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=55588 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The composition of the opera
- 2. Medea
- Velleda
- Norma: Romani's sources
- 3. Synopsis and musical frame
- 4. Music and poetry
- 5. A glimpse of the genesis of the opera
- 6. Some variant readings
- 7. Contemporary reactions to Norma
- 8. Critical fortunes since the Unification of Italy
- 9. Five prima donnas: contributions to a performance history
- App. I. Borrowings
- App. II. The tonal plan of Norma
- App. III. Liszt's 'Reminiscences de Norma'.