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Giacomo Puccini: Catalogue of the Works. By Dieter Schickling. Kassel: Barenreiter, 2003. [446 p. ISBN 3-7618-1582-2. $167.50.] Music examples.
Many readers may remember a popular undergraduate music history text that made only begrudging reference to Puccini, relegating the discussion of his entire oeuvre to a paragraph. The unspoken judgment was that any work that enjoyed wildly popular success in a twentieth-century opera house was somehow unworthy of scholarly scrutiny. I remember my first national American Musicological Society meeting, in the early 1970s, when all opera was relegated to the Sunday morning slot, and even then the only Italians deemed fit for ...