Rossini

Armando Torno, Pier Angelo Sequeri
Edizioni Piemme

Fondazione Pirelli
Mondadori

Massimo Mila
Edizioni Studio Tesi

Anthony M. Cummings
Princeton University Press

During the years between the restoration of the Medici to Florence and the election of Cosimo I, the Medici family sponsored a series of splendid public festivals, reconstructed here by Anthony M. Cummings. Cummings has utilized unexpectedly rich sources of information about the musical life of the time in contemporary narrative accounts of these occasions--histories, diaries, and family memoirs. In this interdisciplinary work, he explains how the festivals combined music with art and literature to convey political meanings to Florentine observers. As analyzed by Cummings, the festivals document the political transformation of the city in the crucial era that witnessed the end of the Florentine republic and the beginnings of the Medici principate. This book will interest all students of the life and institutions of sixteenth-century Florence and of the Medici family. In addition, the author furnishes new evidence about the contexts for musical performances in early modern Europe. By describing such contexts, he ascertains much about how music was performed and how it sounded in this period of music history and shows that the modes of musical expression were more varied than is suggested by the relatively few surviving examples of actual pieces of music.

Originally published in 1992.

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Alain Daniélou
Casadeilibri Editore

Marco Denti
Selene Edizioni

"Alias Bob Dylan" racconta i sogni, le speranze e poi le delusioni e i drammi di chi rimase abbagliato dal luogo comune del Nuovo Dylan. Una vera e propria Odissea dei nostri tempi. Utilizzando sempre fonti primarie, ovvero le voci dei protagonisti, cantautori che non ebbero e non avranno le fortune di Bob Dylan, ma che scoprirono, a spese loro, le contraddizioni e il cinismo dell'industria dello spettacolo. Un lavoro di ricerca accurato e dettagliato che viene però narrato senza pretese intellettuali, ma con il tono di chi ha scoperto delle storie, magari crude e non sempre a lieto fine, ma troppo belle per non essere raccontate.

Marino Anesa
Sistema Bibliotecario Urbano - Archivio della Cultura di base

Howard Pollack
University of Illinois Press

One of America's most beloved and accomplished composers, Aaron Copland played a crucial role in American music's coming of age. Indeed, Copland masterworks like Appalachian Spring and A Lincoln Portrait only begin to tell the epic story of a career spent composing a wealth of music for opera, ballet, chorus, orchestra, chamber ensemble, band, radio, and film.

Howard Pollack's expansive biography examines Copland's long list of accomplishments while also telling the story of the composer's musical development, political sympathies, personal life, relationships as an openly gay man, and tireless encouragement of younger composers. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award, Copland played a vital role in the Yaddo Festival and as a beloved teacher at Tanglewood, Harvard, and the New School for Social Research. He turned to conducting later in life and via tours promoted American classical music overseas while taking it to appreciative audiences across the United States.

Elke Mascha Blankenburg
Europäische Verlagsanstalt

Gabriele Laguzzi
Arktos - Oggero editore

Sergio Bestente, Isabella Maria
EDT

Giovanni Gavazzeni
Edizioni Pendragon