Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I VERSIFICATION AND MELODIC AESTHETICS
- 1 Rhythm and stanza in French and Italian librettos
- 2 French and Italian melodic aesthetics and practice ca. 1830–1870
- Episode: Design, middleground rhythm, and phrase
- Part II FRENCH MELODY IN VERDI'S OPERAS
- Appendix: Principal theoretical texts cited (arranged in chronological order by date of publication)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Episode: Design, middleground rhythm, and phrase
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I VERSIFICATION AND MELODIC AESTHETICS
- 1 Rhythm and stanza in French and Italian librettos
- 2 French and Italian melodic aesthetics and practice ca. 1830–1870
- Episode: Design, middleground rhythm, and phrase
- Part II FRENCH MELODY IN VERDI'S OPERAS
- Appendix: Principal theoretical texts cited (arranged in chronological order by date of publication)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Verdi and the French AestheticVerse, Stanza, and Melody in Nineteenth-Century Opera, pp. 78 - 88Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008