Description |
1 online resource (1 score (xlii, 400 pages, 7 pages of plates)) : portrait, facsimiles. |
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notated music ntm rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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score rdafnm |
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mixed voices |
Series |
Recent researches in American music ; 82 |
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Music of the United States of America ; volume 28 |
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Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573 |
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Recent researches in American music ; 82.
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Music of the United States of America ; 28.
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Recent researches in music online. 2577-4573
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Note |
Opera in two acts. |
Language |
English words. |
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Staff notation. |
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Composed in 1913. |
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Libretto by David K. Stevens. |
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Includes historical and critical notes and synopsis in English. |
Summary |
George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931), a Massachusetts native identified with the so-called second "New England School" of composers, is among the most important and creative American composers in the generation that bridged the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His opera The Padrone, set to a libretto by David K. Stevens (based on an idea from Chadwick himself), was composed in 1912; it was strongly influenced by the "verismo" operas of the time (such as Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and Puccini's Tosca), which attempted to bring to opera the naturalism of such late nineteenth-century writers as Zola and Ibsen. The Padrone is set in an American city (presumably the North End of Boston) in the "present." The story, a tragic tale in two acts with an orchestral interlude, revolves around a ruthless member of the Italian community ("the padrone") and his exploitation of more recently arrived immigrants. Chadwick composed The Padrone for submission to the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York, but the opera was rejected, probably because of its gritty realism, and was never staged during Chadwick's lifetime. -- Provided by publisher. |
Note |
Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed October 23, 2018). |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 398-400). |
Contents |
George Whitefield Chadwick's The Padrone -- Analysis of The Padrone -- Plates -- The Padrone: Act 1 ; Interlude ; Act 2 -- Apparatus. |
Subject |
Operas -- Scores.
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Italians -- United States -- Drama.
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Italian Americans -- Drama.
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Immigrants -- United States -- Drama.
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Opéras -- Partitions.
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Immigrants
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Italian Americans
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Italians
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Operas -- Scores
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
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Genre/Form |
Drama
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Operas
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Scores
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Operas.
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Scores.
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Partitions (Musique)
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Added Author |
Betz, Marianne, editor.
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Stevens, D. K. (David Kilburn), 1860-1946, librettist.
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A-R Editions, publisher.
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American Musicological Society, publisher.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Chadwick, G. W. (George Whitefield), 1854-1931. Padrone. Padrone.Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions,2017. (OCoLC)1012346130 9780895798558 |
ISBN |
9781987200416 |
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1987200411 |
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9780895798558 |
Standard No. |
10.31022/A082 doi |
Music No. |
A082 A-R Editions, Inc. (score) |
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