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Phonetics and Diction in Singing
University of Minnesota Press 1963; US$ 24.00Though it has often been passionately criticized--as fraudulent, exploitative, even pagan--the American funeral home has become nearly as inevitable as death itself, an institution firmly embedded in our culture. But how did the funeral home come to hold such a position? What is its history? And is it guilty of the charges sometimes leveled against... more...
The Management of Opera
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 105.00This book presents the current and future issues facing opera houses and opera companies. Problems in different environments need different solutions. In particular, it opposes the American method of managing cultural institutions, preferring a European one where public support and funds plays a major role. more...
Vocal Rescue
Elsevier Science 2005; US$ 69.95"Lois Alba is a master teacher, ...I have never seen a vocal instructor who got such remarkable results in such a short time." - Irene Dalis, General Director, Opera San Jose Achieving a successful singing career, especially in opera, can seem almost impossible to many singers because of fear of high notes, lack of projection, and confusion on... more...
Die Rezeption des Orpheus-Mythos in deutschen Musikdramen des 17. Jahrhunderts
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 133.00The story of the divine singer who could tame wild animals and enchant inanimate nature, and who for love of his wife descended to the underworld, has exercised a never-ending fascination throughout all epochs. It is therefore scarcely surprising that the myth of Orpheus became a source of inspiration and his figure a leading character for the new... more...
Donizetti and His Operas
Cambridge University Press 1982; US$ 86.00The series will include both new and recent titles drawn from the whole range of the Press's very substantial publishing programs. more...
The Rival Sirens
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 79.00The Rival Sirens examines the vital and intertwined roles of singers, audiences and local cultural context in creating eighteenth-century opera. more...
The Story of Giuseppe Verdi
Cambridge University Press 1980; US$ 37.00A translation of Baldini's acclaimed study of verdi's operatic masterpieces, with new editorial additions. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Verdi
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 28.00This Companion provides a biographical, theatrical, and social-cultural background for Verdi's music, examines in detail important general aspects of its style and method of composing, and synthesizes stylistic themes in discussions of representative works. more...
The Italian Traditions and Puccini
Indiana University Press 2011; US$ 41.95In this groundbreaking survey of the fundamentals, methods, and formulas that were taught at Italian music conservatories during the 19th century, Nicholas Baragwanath explores the compositional significance of tradition in Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Boito, and, most importantly, Puccini. Taking... more...
Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 88.00A definitive source study of the stage works of Harrison Birtwistle, one of Britain's foremost living composers. more...









