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From paper to performance: Problems and solutions in operatic piano-vocal scores

Bagby, Michael Joseph

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Title
From paper to performance: Problems and solutions in operatic piano-vocal scores
Author(s)
Bagby, Michael Joseph
Issue Date
2017
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Gunn, Julie
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Gunn, Julie
Committee Member(s)
  • Magee, Jeffrey
  • Tilley, Michael
Department of Study
School of Music
Discipline
Music
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
A.Mus.D. (doctoral)
Keyword(s)
  • piano-vocal scores
  • largo al factotum
  • una furtiva lagrima
  • piano reduction
  • editorial solutions
  • instrumentation
  • textures
  • layers
  • nineteenth-century Italian opera
Language
en
Abstract
As a vocal coach and accompanist in operatic productions, I utilize piano-vocal scores regularly. The organization of piano-vocal scores within the Nineteenth-Century Italian operatic repertoire varies by publisher and editor in conveying the piano reduction as well as editorial markings. This dissertation reviews Figaro’s aria “Largo al factotum” from Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Nemorino’s aria “Una furtiva lagrima” from Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore from a pianist’s point of view. Upon evaluating the orchestral likeness of an edition, pianists may seek an alternate rendering that better transmits the orchestral score into a reduction idiomatic to the piano. Relying on their knowledge, taste, ingenuity, and the 21st-century technology at their fingertips, editors and pianists alike may resolve complications ranging from page turns to instrumentation.
Type of Resource
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  • image
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Copyright 2017 Michael Joseph Bagby

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