Puccini's La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity

ISBN-13: 9780367777753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str.

Kathryn Fenton

Opis

This book provides a historically informed understanding of the reception of Puccini’s opera, La fanciulla del West as it intersected with both opera production and consumption in the United States and with the process of American musical identity formation during the first decade of the twentieth century.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Arrivals 3. Puccini and the Frontier Melodrama 4. Music "Of the Soil," or, How to Sound American 5. Departures 6. Conclusions

O autorze

Kathryn M. Fenton is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Middle Tennessee State University and specializes in research on music and culture of the Long Nineteenth Century. Her current projects focus on the intersection of Italian and American music and culture during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.