Relationship between words and music in Italian vocal composition: on the operas of Giuseppe Verdi

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23520187
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Study of the arts/History of the arts/Arts in general
• Research Institution: Tokyo College of Music
• Principal Investigator: SONODA Midori 東京音楽大学, 音楽学部, 講師 (60421111)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: イタリア・オペラ / ヴェルディ / オペラ台本 / リブレット

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The study surveys Giuseppe Verdi's compositional process in Macbeth (premiered Firenze, 1847; revised version premiered Paris, 1865) and the role of his librettists for the opera; furthermore, this study examines the philological problems on the variants in the literary text of La traviata (premiered Venice, 1853). The letters exchanged between Verdi and Francesco Maria Piave for the revised version of Macbeth and the sketches of La traviata show that "the composer developed his musical ideas with a particular set of words in mind" (Philip Gossett, 2006).

Free Research Field

音楽学