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Contents
- 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 vepres siciliennes to Un ballo in maschera (1854-1859)
- Afterword: Verdi and His Predecessors
- Selected bibliography
- Index