Best Rossini Books
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1. A Night at the Opera: An Irreverent Guide to The Plots, The Singers, The Composers, The Recordings (Modern Library (Paperback))
Author: by Denis Sir Forman
Published at: Modern Library; Revised, Subsequent edition (September 1, 1998)
ISBN: 978-0375751769
Delightful and anti-reverentialSunday Times (London)With an encyclopedic knowledge of opera and a delightful dash of irreverence, Sir Denis Forman throws open the world of operaits structure, composers, conductors, and artistsin this hugely informative guide. A Night at the Opera dissects the eighty-three most popular operas recorded on compact disc, from Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur to Mozart’s Die Zauberflte.
For each opera, Sir Denis details the plot and cast of characters, awarding stars to parts that are worth looking out for, really good, or, occasionally, stunning. He goes on to tell the history of each opera and its early reception.
Finally, each work is graded from alpha to gamma (although the Ring cycle gets an X), and Sir Denis has no qualms about voicing his opinion: the first act of Fidelio is a bit of a mess, while the last scene of Don Giovanni towers above the comic finales of Figaro and Cos and whether or not [it] is Mozart’s greatest opera, it is certainly his most powerful finale.
2. Bel Canto: A Theoretical and Practical Vocal Method (Dover Books on Music)
Author: by Mathilde Marchesi
Published at: Dover Publications (June 1, 1970)
ISBN: 978-0486223155
Mathilde Marchesi (18211913) was probably the most renowned singing teacher of the late nineteenth century. Herself the pupil of the great Manuel Garcia the Second and the associate of the unsurpassable divas of the middle nineteenth century, she also linked the traditional bel canto teaching method to the beginning of the twentieth century.
Early in her career her work was praised enthusiastically by Rossini, who was for a time officially in charge of voice training in France; and toward the end of her career she prepared such superstars as Melba, Calv, Eames, Aida, and others.
This volume embodies Madame Marchesi’s “vocal alphabet,” or basic instructions and exercises that formed the voices of her great pupils. An introductory text discusses breathing, attack, registers, and similar matters, while the remainder of the book contains many exercises that teach voice management and projections.
Marchesi’s book is today even more important than when it first appeared, for it offers the basis for a construction of the bel canto training system. At the time the book appeared, the bel canto system had gone out of fashion in favor of more modern schools that seemed to offer more rapid maturation, voice volume, and dramatics.
3. The Liturgical Organist, Vol 1: Easy Compositions — Preludes/Interludes/Postludes for Pipe or Reed Organ with Hammond Registrations
Author: by Carlo Rossini
Published at: Alfred Music (March 1, 1985)
ISBN: 978-0769241937
This is the first and easiest book in a 4-book collection of preludes, interludes, and postludes compiled and arranged by Carlo Rossini for performance on pipe, electronic or reed organs, and with Hammond registrations included. No separate pedal notation staff is included, however many examples indicate notes for the pedals.
The Liturgical Organist provides the average organist with an orderly collection of liturgical compositions for church use and for possible performance even on the smallest instrument. The compositions include works from the baroque, classical and romantic eras.
4. The Liturgical Organist, Vol 2: Easy Compositions — Preludes/Interludes/Postludes for Pipe or Reed Organ with Hammond Registrations
Author: by Carlo Rossini
Published at: Alfred Music (March 1, 1985)
ISBN: 978-1769242825
This is the 2nd in a 4-book collection of preludes, interludes, and postludes compiled and arranged by Carlo Rossini for performance on pipe, electronic or reed organs, and with Hammond registrations included. No separate pedal notation staff is included, however many examples indicate notes for the pedals.
The Liturgical Organist provides the average organist with an orderly collection of liturgical compositions for church use and for possible performance even on the smallest instrument. The compositions include works from the baroque, classical and romantic eras.
5. The Liturgical Organist, Vol. 3
Author: by Carlo Rossini
Published at: Alfred Music (March 1, 1985)
ISBN: 978-0769242835
This is the 3rd in a 4-book collection of preludes, interludes, and postludes compiled and arranged by Carlo Rossini for performance on pipe, electronic or reed organs, and with Hammond registrations included. No separate pedal notation staff is included, however many examples indicate notes for the pedals.
The Liturgical Organist provides the average organist with an orderly collection of liturgical compositions for church use and for possible performance even on the smallest instrument. The compositions include works from the baroque, classical and romantic eras.
6. The Liturgical Organist, Vol 4: Preludes/Interludes/Postludes for Pipe or Reed Organ with Hammond Registrations
Author: by Carlo Rossini
Published at: Alfred Music (March 1, 1985)
ISBN: 978-0769242910
This is the final book in a 4-book collection of preludes, interludes, and postludes compiled and arranged by Carlo Rossini for performance on pipe, electronic or reed organs, and with Hammond registrations included. No separate pedal notation staff is included, however many examples indicate notes for the pedals.
The Liturgical Organist provides the average organist with an orderly collection of liturgical compositions for church use and for possible performance even on the smallest instrument. The compositions include works from the baroque, classical and romantic eras.
7. La Cenerentola: Vocal Score
Author: by Gioacchino Rossini
Published at: Ricordi (May 1, 1987)
ISBN: 978-0793584796
(Vocal Score).Italian Only Cloth Score.
8. The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds (Ernest Bloch Lectures)
Author: by Martha Feldman
Published at: University of California Press; First edition (August 2, 2016)
ISBN: 978-0520292444
The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political.
In Italy, castration for singing was understood through the lens of Catholic blood sacrifice as expressed in idioms of offering and renunciation and, paradoxically, in satire, verbal abuse, and even the symbolism of the castrato’s comic cousin Pulcinella. Sacrifice in turn was inseparable from the system of patriarchyinvolving teachers, patrons, colleagues, and relativeswhereby castrated males were produced not as nonmen, as often thought nowadays, but as idealized males.
Yet what captivated audiences and composersfrom Cavalli and Pergolesi to Handel, Mozart, and Rossiniwere the extraordinary capacities of castrato voices, a phenomenon ultimately unsettled by Enlightenment morality. Although the castrati failed to survive, their musicality and vocality have persisted long past their literal demise.
9. Semiramide: Ricordi Opera Vocal Score Series
Author: by Alberto Zedda
Published at: Ricordi (September 1, 2015)
ISBN: 978-8875929817
(Vocal Score).Reduction for voice and piano based on the critical edition. Includes historical introduction and critical commentary.
10. L'Italiana in Algeri: Vocal Score Critical Edition (CHANT)
Author: by Azio Corghi
Published at: Ricordi (February 1, 1998)
ISBN: 978-8875925192
(Vocal Score).Italian and English. Critical Edition, edited by Corghi.
11. Musorgsky
Author: by Richard Taruskin
Published at: Princeton University Press; Revised ed. edition (July 7, 1997)
ISBN: 978-0691016238
“It is [a] fully illuminated story that Richard Taruskin, in the path-breaking essays collected here, unfolds around Modest Musorgsky, Russia’s greatest national composer…. [Taruskin’s] tour de force comes with a frontal attack on all the Soviet-bred truisms that for a century have refashioned Musorgsky from what the evidence suggests he was-an aristocrat with an early clinical interest in true-to-life musical portraiture and a later penchant for drinking partners who were both folklore buffs and political reactionaries democrat.”-From the foreword Incorporating both new and now-classic essays, this book for the first time sets the vocal works of Modest Musorgsky in a fully detailed cultural, political, and historical context.
From this perspective Richard Taruskin revises fundamentally the composer’s historical and artistic image, in particular debunking the century-old dogmas of Vladimir Stasov, Musorgsky’s first biographer. Here the author offers the most complete explanation of the revision of the opera Boris Godunov, compares it to contemporaneous operas by Chaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, advances a revisionary characterization of Khovanshchina as an aristocratic tragedy informed by a pessimistic view of history, discusses Musorgsky’s use of folklore, and, focusing on Sorochintsi Fair, brings to a climax his refutation of Musorgsky as a protorevolutionary populist.
12. Il barbiere di Siviglia: Vocal Score (Ricordi Opera Vocal Score)
Author: by Alberto Zedda
Published at: RICORDI (November 1, 1986)
ISBN: 978-8875925178
(Vocal Score).Italian/English Paper Score.Edited by Zedda.
13. William Tell and Other Overtures in Full Score (Dover Music Scores)
Author: by Gioacchino Rossini
Published at: Dover Publications; Reprint edition (July 27, 1994)
ISBN: 978-0486281490
Aside from The Barber of Seville, most of Gioacchino Rossini’s 39 operas are revived only rarely today, although many of their arias and other elements are frequently performed in concerts and recordings. The overtures to his operas, however, are another matter entirely.
Evergreen in their appeal, many remain popular mainstays of repertoires worldwide, loved by audiences for their elegance, lively rhythms, and beautiful melodies. This volume contains five of the most admired of Rossini’s operatic overtures, reprinted from authoritative full-score editions. Included are William Tell; The Thieving Magpie; The Silken Ladder; Mr. Bruschino, or The Accidental Son; and Semiramide.
Each reveals Rossini’s wonderful feeling for theater in beautifully crafted orchestrations. Brought together in our high-quality volume, with background information on each work, these five full scores give music lovers the opportunity to study the unique details of each composition.
14. William Tell Overture: Sheet (Simply Classics Solos)
Author: by Gioacchino Rossini
Published at: Alfred Music (January 1, 1997)
ISBN: 978-0739008782
Simplified Masterwork Solo.
15. Introduction, Theme and Variations for B♭ Clarinet and Piano (CLARINETTE)
Author: by Ralph Hermann
Published at: Oxford University Press (March 31, 1969)
ISBN: 978-0193852631
For clarinet and pianoRossini’s well-known piece for clarinet solo and piano.
