| Description |
xviii, 852 pages : music ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Music and drama to the end of the sixteenth century. The lyric theatre of the Greeks -- Medieval dramatic music -- The immediate forerunners of opera -- The seventeenth century. The beginnings -- Monte Verdi's Orfeo -- Other Italian court operas of the early seventeenth century -- Italian opera in the later seventeenth century -- I. In Italy -- Italian opera in the later seventeenth century -- II. In Germany -- Early German opera -- Lully and the opera in France -- English opera -- Eighteenth century. Masters of the early eighteenth century -- The opera seria -- The operas of Gluck -- Eighteenth-century comic opera -- Mozart -- The nineteenth century. The turn of the century -- Grand opera -- Opera comique, operatta, and lyric opera -- Italian opera : Verdi -- The romantic opera in Germany -- Wagner -- The later nineteenth century -- Nationalism and opera -- The twentieth century -- Old bottles and new wine -- Tradition and renewal : the recent past -- Bibliography -- Modern editions of operas or excerpts from operas composed before 1800 -- Sources of examples and translations |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [585]-768. "Modern editions of operas or excerpts from operas composed before 1800": pages [769]-786 |
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Includes bibliographical notes and index |
| Notes |
Contact the AMC for rights information |
| Subject |
Opera.
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| LC no. |
64011043 |
| ISBN |
0231024223 |
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0231089783 |
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