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1 online resource (1049 pages) |
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ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE TO THE 4TH EDITION; INTRODUCTION; PART 1: Music and Drama to the End of the Sixteenth Century; Chapter 1: The Lyric Theater of the Greeks; Chapter 2: Medieval Dramatic Music; Chapter 3: The Immediate Forerunners of Opera; PART 2: The Seventeenth Century; Chapter 4: The Beginnings: Opera in Florence and Mantua; Chapter 5: Other Early Seventeenth-Century Italian Court Operas, Including the First Comic Operas in Florence and Rome; Chapter 6: Italian Opera in the Later Seventeeth Century in Italy |
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Chapter 7: Seventeeth-Century Italian Opera in German-Speaking LandsChapter 8: Early German Opera; Chapter 9: Opera in france from Lully to Charpentier; Chapter 10: Opera in England; PART 3: The Eighteenth Century; Chapter 11: Masters of the Early Eighteenth Century; Chapter 12: Opera Seria: General Characteristics; Chapter 13: Opera Seria: The Composers; Chapter 14: The Opera of Gluck; Chapter 15: The Comic Opera of teh Eighteenth Century; Chapter 16: The Operas of Mozart and His Viennese Contemporaries; PART 4: The Nineteenth Century; Chapter 17: The Turn of the Century |
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Chapter 18: Grand OperaChapter 19: Opera Comique, Operetta, and Lyric Opera; Chapter 20: Italian Opera of the Primo Ottocento: Rossini, Doizetti, Verdi, and Their Contemporaries; Chapter 21: The Romantic Opera in Germany; Chapter 22: The Operas of Wagner; Chapter 23: The Later Nineteeth Century: France, Italy, Germany, and Austria; PART 5: Other National Traditions of Opera from the Seventeeth to the Early Twentieth Centuries; Chapter 24: National Traditions of Opera; PART 6: The Twentieth Century; Chapter 25: Introduction/Opera in France and Italy |
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Chapter 26: Opera in the German-Speaking CountriesChapter 27: National Opera in Russia and Neighboring Countries; Centeral and Eastern Europe; Greece and Turkey; the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland, Spain, Portugal and Latin America; Chapter 28: Opera in the British Isles, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand; Chapter 29: Opera in the United States; Appendix; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Sources and Translations of Musical Examples; Index |
| Summary |
When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. This thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition examines not only the standard performance repertoire, but also works considered important for the genre's development, from its Greek forerunners to the present day. The section on twentieth-century opera has been reorganized around national operatic traditions including a chapter devoted solely to opera in the United States, which incorporates material on the American musical and ties between classical |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Opera.
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Opera.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Williams, Hermine Weigel
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| ISBN |
9780231507721 |
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0231507720 |
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