Gioachino Rossini: A Research and Information Guide

by Gallo; Denise

• ISBN13: 9780415994576
• ISBN10: 0415994578
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Giochino Rossini: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary ands secondary sources related to this composer.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
A brief overview of Rossini studies	p. xi
Purpose and scope of the volume	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvi
Chronology of Rossini's life	p. xvii
Archives and collections, bibliographies and indexes, and catalogs	p. 1
Archives and collections	p. 1
Bibliographies and indexes	p. 6
Catalogs	p. 8
Correspondence and documents	p. 11
General collections	p. 11
Studies drawn from correspondence	p. 15
Letters organized by correspondent	p. 19
Rossini's style and language in correspondence	p. 31
Iconographies and exhibition catalogs	p. 32
Biographical iconography	p. 32
Scenographic iconography	p. 34
Exhibition catalogs	p. 35
Biographies and general studies of Rossini's career	p. 39
Nineteenth-century biographies and personal accounts	p. 39
Analyses of nineteenth-century commentaries	p. 49
Biographical studies published between 1900 and 1950	p. 54
Biographical studies published between 1950 and the present	p. 60
Specialized studies	p. 66
Studies of Rossini's contemporaries	p. 74
Rossini's parents: Giuseppe and Anna (Guidarini) Rossini	p. 74
Rossini's wives: Isabella Colbran and Olympe Pélissier	p. 75
Rossini's acquaintances and colleagues	p. 79
Composers	p. 79
Impresarios and theatrical administrators	p. 92
Librettists	p. 94
Musicians	p. 101
Publishers	p. 102
Singers	p. 105
Other contemporaries	p. 113
Conference and congress reports	p. 114
Performance history, reception, and locative studies	p. 117
Performance history	p. 117
Reception	p. 118
Locative studies	p. 120
Rossini's historical position and influence	p. 162
General studies	p. 162
Contemporary assessments of Rossini	p. 163
Rossini's influence on the music of others	p. 165
Rossini and literature	p. 177
Commemorative publications and studies	p. 181
Studies of Rossini's music	p. 184
General studies	p. 184
Nineteenth-century commentaries	p. 186
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century commentaries	p. 187
Rossini's style and contemporary aesthetic debate	p. 192
Specialized studies	p. 201
Rossini's operas	p. 208
Reference works	p. 208
General studies	p. 209
Style and characteristics	p. 212
Studies of musical form and structures	p. 215
Vocal characteristics and interpretation	p. 221
Libretto studies	p. 226
Studies of versions	p. 229
The seria works	p. 230
The semiseria and buffa works	p. 233
Scenography	p. 237
"Rossini Renaissance": modern interpreters and productions	p. 239
Studies of individual operas	p. 244
Demetrio e Polibio	p. 244
La cambiale di matrimonio	p. 245
L'equivoco stravagante	p. 245
L'inganno felice	p. 246
Ciro in Babilonia, ossia La caduta di Baldassare	p. 247
La scala di seta	p. 247
La pietra del paragone	p. 247
L'occasione fa il ladro	p. 247
Il signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo	p. 248
Tancredi	p. 248
L'italiana in Algeri	p. 251
Aureliano in Palmira	p. 253
Il turco in Italia	p. 254
Sigismondo	p. 255
Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra	p. 256
Torvaldo e Dorliska	p. 257
Il barbiere di Siviglia	p. 257
La gazzetta	p. 266
Otello, ossia Il moro di Venezia	p. 267
La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo	p. 271
La gazza ladra	p. 274
Armida	p. 275
Adelaide di Borgogna	p. 276
Mosè in Egitto	p. 277
Adina, ossia il Califfo di Bagdad	p. 280
Ricciardo e Zoraide	p. 280
Ermione	p. 281
Eduardo e Cristina	p. 282
La donna del lago	p. 285
Bianca e Falliero, ossia Il consiglio dei tre	p. 286
Maometto II	p. 286
Matilde di Shabran, ossia Bellezza, e cuor di ferro	p. 287
Zelmira	p. 288
Semiramide	p. 289
Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del giglio d'oro	p. 292
Le siège de Corinthe (L'assedio di Corinto)	p. 293
Moïse et Pharaon (Mosè)	p. 294
Le comte Ory	p. 297
Guillaume Tell	p. 297
Pastiches	p. 303
Unfulfilled operatic plans	p. 304
Non-operatic works	p. 306
General studies	p. 306
Sacred music	p. 306
Cantatas, incidental music, hymns, choruses	p. 317
Choral music	p. 322
Miscellaneous vocal music	p. 322
Instrumental music	p. 323
Music for bands	p. 325
Péchés de vieillesse	p. 328
Spurious works/attributions	p. 332
Discographies and videographics	p. 333
Libretto collections and editions	p. 337
General collections	p. 337
Selected editions and translations	p. 338
Editions and editing practices	p. 339
Editing Rossini critical editions	p. 339
Specific issues in editing Rossini	p. 341
Rossini Internet resources	p. 344
Websites dedicated to Rossini	p. 344
Opera festival websites	p. 346
Appendix	p. 347
Catalog of Rossini's compositions	p. 347
Editions and facsimiles	p. 363
Critical editions of librettos	p. 366
Locations of premieres of Rossini's operas	p. 369
Rossini's librettists	p. 371
Notes	p. 372
Index of authors, editors, and translators	p. 374
Subject index	p. 381
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