1st Edition
Valuing Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera Fantasias for Woodwind Instruments Trash Music
Introduction
Chapter 1: The opera fantasia in musicological context
Chapter 2: The Italian context
Chapter 3: Genre theory and the opera fantasia
Chapter 4: Gender implications of the opera fantasia
Chapter 5: A return to musical narrative through the opera fantasia
Chapter 6: Opera fantasias on Verdi’s Rigoletto, Il trovatore, and Un ballo in maschera
Conclusion
Biography
Rachel N. Becker is Assistant Professor of Musicology and Oboe at Boise State University, USA. She previously taught at the University of Cambridge, UK. Rachel’s research focuses on issues of genre, virtuosity, and gender. She has published on musical ecphrasis and on gendering of woodwind instruments, and she remains active internationally as an oboist.
