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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. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have."

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Grout, Donald Jay (Autor), Williams, Hermine Weigel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2003.
©2003
Edición:4th ed.
Colección:Classical music reference library.
Temas:
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).