Verdi and the French aesthetic : verse, stanza, and melody in nineteenth-century opera /
Focusing on Verdi's French operas, Giger shows how the composer acquired an ever better understanding of the various approaches to French versification while gradually bringing his works in line with French melodic aesthetic. In his first French opera, Jérusalem, Verdi treated the text in an ov...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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