This Companion is a collection of specially commissioned essays on one of the most influential opera composers in the repertoire. The volume is divided into four parts, each exploring an important element of Rossini?s life, his world, and his works: biography and reception; words and music; represen[...]
The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance.
In this book, the first to fully explore Egyptian sexual philosophy and practices, Egyptologist Ruth Schumann Antelme provides us with a new view of the sexual life of the ancient Egyptians. Richly illustrated throughout, Sacred Sexuality in Ancient Egypt explains the symbolism of the erotic scenes [...]
In this book Steven Vande Moortele offers a comprehensive account of operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850. Discussing a broad range of works by German, French, and Italian composers, it is at once an investigation of the Romantic overture within the context of m[...]
This 1824 English translation of a colourful, vigorous and forthright biography gives Stendhal's contemporary critique of the acclaimed opera composer.[...]
(LKM Music). The work is based on two of Rossini's most moving dramatic arias and remains one of the most popular virtuosic works for clarinet to this day. This critical edition by celebrated clarinetist Charles Neidich takes a fresh approach to this work, blending the 19th Century bel canto traditi[...]
This second edition of the bestselling 100 Activities features more than 20 new and revised activities, including updates to English translations of the Creed and prayers of the Mass. Author Ellen Rossini has expanded the Primary section by adding lessons on the Mass and popular devotions including [...]
Rossini's popularity in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly not echoed in France where he was regarded as 'an ill-bred parvenu, whose cheap popularity was an insult to a great musical tradition' and thus Stendhal, always an obstinate individualist, was the first of his contemporaries to recognise[...]