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. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have."
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2003.
©2003 |
Edición: | 4th ed. |
Colección: | Classical music reference library.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The lyric theater of the Greeks
- Medieval dramatic music
- The immediate forerunners of opera
- The beginnings : opera in Florence and Mantua
- Other early seventeenth-century Italian court operas, including the first comic operas in Florence and Rome
- Italian opera in the later seventeenth century in Italy
- Seventeenth-century Italian opera in German-speaking lands
- Early German opera
- Opera in France from Lully to Charpentier
- Opera in England
- Masters of the early eighteenth century
- Opera seria : general characteristics
- Opera seria : the composers
- The operas of Gluck
- The comic opera of the eighteenth century
- The operas of Mozart and his Viennese contemporaries
- The turn of the [nineteenth] century
- Grand opera
- Opéra comique, operetta, and lyric opera
- Italian opera of the primo ottacento : Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, and their contemporaries
- The romantic opera in Germany
- The operas of Wagner
- The later nineteenth century : France, Italy, Germany, and Austria
- National traditions of opera
- Introduction [to opera of the twentieth century] ; Opera in France and Italy
- Opera in the German-speaking countries
- National opera in Russia and neighboring countries; central and eastern Europe; Greece and Turkey; the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland; Spain, Portugal, and Latin America
- Opera in the British Isles, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
- Opera in the United States
- Appendix : Chinese opera (Xiqu).