Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword by Nancy Yunhwa Rao (Professor of Music Theory, Rutgers University)
Chapter 1: the Turandot Materials I: textual sources
Chapter 2: the Turandot Materials II: selected correspondence
Chapter 3: the Turandot Materials III: musical sources
Chapter 4: Alfano: his masters’ voices
Chapter 5: Maguire: the phoenix
Chapter 6: Berio: a postmodernist king listens
Chapter 7: Hao: a Turandot in China
Chapter 8: Coppola: a legend without end
Chapter 9: Burton: realizations
Chapter 10: Turandot today and tomorrow: Tin, Wang and the next generation
Index
Biography
Deborah Burton is Associate Professor of Composition and Music Theory at Boston University, and her research concerns opera analysis, counterpoint, and the history of theory, emphasizing Italian sources. Her monograph, entitled Recondite Harmony: Essays on Puccini’s Operas, was published by Pendragon Press in 2012. She has published articles in Theoria, Studi Musicali, Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana, Opera Quarterly, Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale, and other journals. Professor Burton was president of the New England Conference for Music Theory from 2006-2008.
