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Article: The Cambridge Companion to Verdi.(Scott L. Balthazar)(Book review)
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The Cambridge Companion to Verdi. Edited by Scott L. Balthazar. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. [xxvi, 336 p. ISBN 0521635357. $25.99.] Music examples, index, bibliography.
Within the prefaces to the volumes of the ever-increasing Cambridge Companions series, it has become commonplace to assert, in the words of the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Verdi, that these books are "aimed primarily at students and opera lovers who already have a broad background in music history and theory but have not proceeded to a specialized level" while simultaneously offering new ideas and information that "may interest scholars ...