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Changing the Score

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Changing the Score is an academic look into the tradition of aria insertion, a performance custom that permitted singers to incorporate their preferred music into Italian opera performances. The book scrutinizes this tradition from multiple angles.

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Hilary Poriss

Hilary Poriss is a music historian whose scholarship focuses on nineteenth-century Italian and French opera, performance practice, and diva culture. She is professor and chair of music at Northeastern University and earned graduate degrees in music history from the University of Chicago.

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