Verism = (n) the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be ibcluded

Verist (n, adj)

veristic (adj)

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2004-03-06 21:28:14 (GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Reference for the above:

The Macquarie Dictionary, Sydney 1991

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2004-03-06 21:29:38 (GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Veristas - termo usado em português (pelos entendidos em música)

Re: É DEMAIS -
Tantas transmissões medíocres de Verdi e mais Verdi, Puccini ou outros veristas,
sem contar com as \"interpretações\" esclerosadas que Levine faz das óperas ...
www1.rdp.pt/forumant2/_disc27/00003996.htm

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2004-03-06 21:30:59 (GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Outro sítio, desta vez da Gulbenkian

[PDF] Miolo 26 /4 (Page 1)
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
Através do seu dramatismo e realismo social, antecipa as pos- teriores correntes
veristas e naturalistas, que nos anos vindou- ros haveriam de marcar o ...
www.musica.gulbenkian.pt/1999_2000/ calendario_geral/a_000027.pdf

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2004-03-06 21:32:56 (GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Sítios em inglês:

Giovanni Verga (1840-1922)
... of the realistic novel; although now with [some historic] perspective to stabilize
our judgment we may safely place him as the chief of the Verists, the most ...
Description: A biography of the Italian dramatist and analysis of his works.
Category: Arts > Literature > Drama > 19th Century > Verga, Giovanni
www.theatrehistory.com/italian/verga001.html

Favorite Composers & Recordings Alfano to Zemlinsky Wolfgang ...
... and Strauss. Among the verists (besides Puccini), I especially love
Franco Alfano, Ottorino Respighi, and Riccardo Zandonai. Among ...
classicals.com/music/FavoriteComposers&hall/ cas/210.html

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2004-03-06 21:38:13 (GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

uso do termo \"veristic\":


The 19th Century - Page 24
The operas of Alfredo Catalani are the most important Italian ... he not died young of
tuberculosis Catalani would have ..... Even as a veristic work, it is overwrought ...
home.prcn.org/~pauld/opera/19cent24.htm


Qualiton Imports LTD - New Releases
... Lescaut: Intermezzo from the 3rd act; \"Sola, perduta, abbandonata\"; ALFREDO CATALANI:
La Wally .... And where else than in the work of Veristic composers are these ...
www.qualiton.com/pages/nr/jac2.htm


The 19th Century - Page 24
... Italian School\" of the veristi were Francesco Cilea and Umberto ... did much to promote
verismo, and Cilea\'s second opera ... Even as a veristic work, it is overwrought ...
home.prcn.org/~pauld/opera/19cent24.htm


Qualiton Imports LTD - New Releases
VICENZO BELLINI: Norma: \"Casta diva\"; FRANCESCO CILEA: Adriana Lecouvreur: \"Ecco:
respire appena .... And where else than in the work of Veristic composers are these ...
www.qualiton.com/pages/nr/jac2.htm