Puccini’s Soundscapes

Realism and Modernity in Italian Opera

by Arman Schwartz

Book cover: Puccini’s Soundscapes

Extent: 190 pages

Publisher: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki

Subjects: Italian Studies, Music & Performing Arts

Series: Centro studi Giacomo Puccini. Premio Rotary Giacomo Puccini Ricerca

Series volume number: 2

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(June 2016)

ISBN: 9788822264473

Price: $31.00

In stock

By exploring the origins and limits of the composer’s realist acoustics Puccini’s Soundscapes aims to rethink the shape of Puccini’s career and reinterpret many of his major works. Asking more broadly how Italian composers responded to fundamental transformations of auditory culture, this volume proposes a new dialogue between musicology and sound studies and a new approach to musical modernity.

  • By (author) Arman Schwartz