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A Short History of Opera.
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,...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.