Puccini'S Soundscapes

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From the bells in Tosca and the birdcalls in Madame Butterfly to the horns and sirensin Il tabarro and the music box melodies that inspired Turandot, Puccini¿s operas relyto an unprecedented degree on realistic and seemingly unmediated acoustic objects.Focusing on this pervasive if little discussed aspect of the composer¿s art, Puccini¿sSoundscapes uses the twin categories of sound and realism to rethink the shape ofPuccini¿s career, and to offer new interpretations of many of his major works, as wellas those of his contemporaries. It asks how Italian composers responded to some ofthe fundamental transformations of auditory culture during the fin-de-si¿e, andresituates their works within the discourses (aesthetic, political, and technological)of Italian modernity. Proposing a dialogue between musicology and sound studies, Puccini¿s Soundscapes offers new ways of listening to major artistic movements fromNaturalism to Futurism, and asks how late Romantic opera might contribute to abroader statement of the values of musical modernism.

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