"Simon Boccanegra" I. 10-12: A Generic-Genetic Analysis of the Council Chamber Scene

Abstract

Before beginning the substantive part of this essay I should like to explain and justify the use of the expression generic-genetic in the subtitle. When the word analysis is used by itself in connection with a piece of music, it often means an ad hoc account of the piece considered more or less in isolation. The parts of the work are explicated in terms of each other, and the individuality of the work is stressed. Any normative background against which that individuality is foregrounded, when not simply taken for granted, is seen as though from within the piece itself: it is treated as implicit in the piece, sometimes even explicit. By using the expression generic in connection with the Council Chamber scene from Verdi's Simon

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