Roger Parker

Biographic Data

ID3910202
NAMERoger Parker
GIVEN NAMESRoger
FAMILY NAMEParker
SIGNATUREPARKER R
AFFILIATIONSKing's College London
ORCID0000-0003-1682-5667
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Music and the Urban: London in the 1830s

    Open AccessRoger ParkerARTICLESound Stage Screen2026

    After centuries in which music history has been routinely parcelled according to genre and/or national schools, the idea of “urban music,” of music in and of the city, has suddenly become a compelling category. The sense of escape, of liberation from previous, constraining terms of reference, whether from ideologies of “the music itself,” or from contentious divisions between “popular” and “serious,” or from vague sounding-articulations of the na…

  • Analyzing Opera: Verdi and Wagner

    Carolyn Abbate, Roger ParkerBOOKAnalyzing Opera2023

  • Rossini after Rossini: Musical and Social Legacy . Ed. by Arnold Jacobshagen

    Open AccessRoger ParkerARTICLEMusic and Letters2021

    Deriving from a conference in Lucca in 2018 and now published in the series Studies on [sic] Italian Music, this large-format book, with a price some way north of £100, is not easy to review. Its title invites expectations of the broadest aspects of what most of us would call Rossini reception and is divided into four sections: ‘Literary Reception’; ‘Rossini on the International Stage’; ‘Rossinian Influence on Other Musicians’; and the so-called …

  • ‘Opera and …’: The Pleasures and Perils of Amalgamation

    Open AccessRoger ParkerARTICLECambridge Opera Journal2020

    We might start with the Index, often a good indicator of a book's flavour, its local habitation. First up is ‘Abbate, acoustics, acting, Adler, Adorno’, a reassuring miscellany; later on, the German-speaking collective of ‘Schopenhauer, Schreker, Schubart, Schumann-Heink’ awakens memories of time past. ‘Ventilation systems, Verdi, vitalism’, however, turns on the landing lights for a distinctly new approach, while ‘hygiene [both mental and moral]…

  • Music in the Theater: Essays on Verdi and Other Composers

    Pierluigi Petrobelli, Roger ParkerBOOKMusic in the Theater2014

  • Reading Opera

    Arthur Groos, Roger ParkerBOOKReading Opera2014

  • Verdi politico: A wounded cliché regroups

    Roger ParkerARTICLEJournal of Modern Italian Studies2012Cited by: 1References: 2

    The article sums up recent and not-so-recent debates about Giuseppe Verdi and the Risorgimento. It first discusses the image of Verdi's early (pre-1848) operas as ‘political’ works, one largely created in the later nineteenth century, as the newlyformed Italian state searched for national monuments. Except for a brief period in the immediate build-up and aftermath of 1848 (when many operatic events were caught up in the revolutionary cause), Verd…

  • Story of Giuseppe Verdi: Oberto to un Ballo in Maschera

    Fedele d'Amico, Gabriele Baldini et al.BOOKStory of Giuseppe Verdi2011

  • Aida

    Roger ParkerCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Editing (opera)

    Ellen Rosand, Stanley Sadie et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Verdi, Giuseppe (opera)

    Roger ParkerCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Verdi, Giuseppe

    Roger ParkerCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Opera (i)

    Howard Mayer Brown, Ellen Rosand et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Th century Opera

    Roger ParkerCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Reading critics reading: Opera and ballet criticism in France from the Revolution to 1848

    Roger Parker, Mary Ann SmartBOOKReading critics reading2001

  • Round Table II: Literary Studies: Caught up in the Web of Words

    Roger ParkerARTICLEActa Musicologica1997

  • Music in the Theatre: Essays on Verdi and Other Composers

    John Steane, Pierluigi Petrobelli et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times1995

  • County of Lancaster Asylum, Rainhill: 100 Years Ago and Now

    Open AccessRoger Parker, R R Parker et al.ARTICLEHistory of Psychiatry1993

  • Analyzing Opera

    Carolyn Abbate, Roger ParkerBOOKAnalyzing Opera1989

    Analyzing Opera: Verdi and Wagner explores the latest developments in opera analysis by considering, side by side, the works of the two greatest opera composers of the nineteenth century. Although the juxtaposition is not new, comparative studies have tended to view these masters as radically different both as musicians and as musical dramatists. Wagner and his "symphonic opera" set against Verdi "the melodist" is one of many familiar antitheses,…

  • Libretto Study

    Robert Donington, Arthur Groos et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times1989

  • Of Related Interest

    Jeanie K Forte, Simon Williams et al.ARTICLETheatre Journal1989

  • The Dramatic Structure of 'Il trovatore

    Roger ParkerARTICLEMusic Analysis1982

    II trovatore consistently remains one of the three or four most popular operas in the Verdian repertoire; but it has never thoroughly pleased the critics.' Even in the nineteenth century, when, to use Verdi's own words, it would be heard 'in the heart of Africa or the Indies',2 Abramo Basevi, one of the composer's first and most perceptive commentators, voiced certain reservations. Having at an earlier stage divided Verdi's output into two 'manne…

  • The Story of Giuseppe Verdi: Oberto to Un Ballo in Maschera

    Open AccessGabriele Baldini, Fedele d'Amico et al.BOOKStory of Giuseppe Verdi1980

    Abitare la battaglia, Gabriele Baldini's study of the operas of Verdi from Oberto to Un ballo in maschera, has, since its posthumous publication in 1970, received much critical acclaim both in Italy and elsewhere. Its lack of technical language makes it easily accessible to the general music lover, but its original and sometimes controversial ideas have stimulated a great deal of discussion among Verdi specialists. The book's central concern is t…

  • La composition d'Attila: Étude de quelques variantes

    Michel Noiray, Roger ParkerARTICLERevue de musicologie1976