Musical Language of Italian Opera, 1813-1859

Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: What is there to analyze?

Part One: La Via Italiana
Chapter 1. The Anvil Chorus
Chapter 2. Theoretical contexts I: Nineteenth-century theory
Chapter 3. Theoretical contexts II: Schenker and Riemann
Chapter 4. Rhythm and meter
Chapter 5. Musical form

Part Two: Rossini
Chapter 6. Rossini's mediants
Chapter 7. Tonal coherence in Rossini's Italian operas
Chapter 8. Guillaume Tell

Part Three: Between Rossini and Verdi
Chapter 9. Bellini and the new diatonicism
Chapter 10. Meyerbeer and the new chromaticism
Chapter 11. Around 1840: Mercadante and Donizetti

Part Four: Verdi's Sedici Anni
Chapter 12. Ernani to Attila (1844-1846)
Chapter 13. Rigoletto and Il trovatore (1851-1853)
Chapter 14. Les vepres siciliennes to Un ballo in maschera (1854-1859)

Afterword: Verdi and His Predecessors

Selected bibliography
Index

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• Ópera
• Teoria da música e musicologia
• Música romântica (desde ~1830 até ~1900)