The Cambridge Companion to Verdi

Contents

• 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.