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List of music examples List of tables Notes on contributors Preface Chronology Part I. Personal, Cultural, and Political Context: 1. Verdi's life: a thematic biography Mary Jane Phillips-Matz 2. The Italian theater of Verdi's day Alessandro Roccatagliati 3. Verdi, Italian Romanticism and the Risorgimento Mary Ann Smart Part II. The Style of Verdi's Operas and Non-Operatic Works: 4. The forms of set pieces Scott L. Balthazar 5. New currents in the libretto Fabrizio della Seta 6. Words and music Emanuele Senici 7. French influences Andreas Giger 8. Structural coherence Steven Huebner 9. Instrumental music in Verdi's operas David Kimbell 10. Verdi's non-operatic works Roberta Montemorra Marvin Part III. Essays on Representative Operas: 11. Ernani: the tenor in transformation Rosa Solinas 12. 'Ch'hai di nuovo, buffon?' or what's new with Rigoletto Cormac Newark 13. Verdi's Don Carlos: an overview of the opera Harold Powers 14. Desdemona's alienation and Otello's fall Scott L. Balthazar Part IV. Creation and Critical Reception: 15. An introduction to Verdi's working methods Luke Jensen 16. Verdi criticism Gregory Harwood List of Verdi's operas Notes Verdi's works Bibliography Index.
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