Opera in history : from Monteverdi to Cage / Herbert Lindenberger.
Opera in history : from Monteverdi to Cage / Herbert Lindenberger.
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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998.
Date
1998.
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T0363464
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English
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x, 364 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Prelude: Opera Books -- 1. Monteverdi, Caravaggio, Donne: Modernity and Early Baroque -- 2. Handel and the Poetics of Opera Seria -- 3. Rossini, Shelley, and Italy in 1819 -- 4. Opera Among the Arts - Opera Among Institutions -- 5. Wagner's Ring as Nineteenth-Century Artifact -- 6. Opera / Orientali...
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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998.
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California
Date Published
1998.
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Summary
At a time when opera's popularity is fast increasing, this book examines some crucial issues that run through its entire history: its uneasy statue as a form of high art and popular culture, the ways operas are embedded in history yet help give retrospective shape to that history, and the reinterpretation of the operatic past by composers and stage...
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Opera in history : from Monteverdi to Cage / Herbert Lindenberger.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-348) and index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from 782.1/78.
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T0363464
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74VM4kaOreyM
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ISBN
0804731055 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804731041 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804731047 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804731058 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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782.1
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991001513269702626
