William Rothstein is Professor of Music Theory at Queens College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He previously taught at Amherst College, Oberlin College, and the University of Michigan. He is author of Phrase Rhythm in Tonal Music and co-author (with Charles Burkhart) of Anthology for Musical Analysis. He has written and lectured extensively on music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with special emphasis on musical rhythm, Schenkerian theory and analysis, and nineteenth-century Italian opera.
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 vêpres siciliennes to Un ballo in maschera (1854-1859)
Afterword: Verdi and His Predecessors
Selected bibliography Index
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