{"id":96077,"date":"2024-05-20T10:10:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T16:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/coas\/?p=96077"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T16:28:41","slug":"beckers-book-on-italian-opera-fantasias-is-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/coas\/2024\/05\/20\/beckers-book-on-italian-opera-fantasias-is-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Becker\u2019s book on Italian opera fantasias is published"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium wp-image-96078\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/coas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/225\/2024\/05\/D34_5040-cropped-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Rachel Becker\" class=\"wp-image-96078\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Rachel Becker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rachel Becker, an assistant professor of musicology and oboe, recently published her first book by Routledge, \u201cValuing Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera Fantasias for Woodwind Instruments: Trash Music.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A valuable read for musicians, musicologists and music history enthusiasts alike, Becker\u2019s book shines a light on the oft-overlooked genre of opera fantasias \u2013 instrumental works that use themes from a single opera as the body of their virtuosic and flamboyant material. Becker\u2019s examination evolved from research that started during her time at the University of Oxford. She concentrates on nineteenth-century compositions created for and by Italian woodwind instrument performers as she analyzes the material from a historical and theoretical perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, Routledge states that Becker\u2019s book addresses \u201cimportant overlapping strands [that] include the concept of virtuosity and its gradual demonization, the strong gendered overtones of individual woodwind instruments and of virtuosity, the distinct Italian context of these fantasias, the presentation and alteration of opera narratives in opera fantasias, and the technical and social development of woodwind instruments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Becker\u2019s book is now available to purchase in eBook and physical hardback format via&nbsp;<a 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