A Short History of Opera / / Hermine Weigel Williams, Donald Grout.

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• VerfasserIn: Grout, Donald,; Williams, Hermine Weigel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: fourth edition
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (992 p.) :; 30 photos, 143 music examples

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.The fourth edition inco...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface to the Fourth Edition
• Introduction
• Part 1. Musk 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 Seventeenth Century in Italy
• Chapter 7. Seventeenth-Century Italian Opera in German-Speaking Lands
• Chapter 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 Send: General Characteristics
• Chapter 13. Opera Seria: The Composers
• Chapter 14. The Operas of Gluck
• Chapter 15. The Comic Opera of the Eighteenth Century
• Chapter 16. The Operas of Mo~art and His Viennese Contemporaries
• Part 4. The Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 17. The Turn of the Century
• Chapter 18. Grand Opera
• Chapter 19. Opéra Comique, Operetta, and Lyric Opera
• Chapter 20. Italian Opera of the Primo Ottocento: Rossini, Donizetti! Verdi! and Their Contemporaries
• Chapter 21. The Romantic Opera in Germany
• Chapter 22. The Operas of Wagner
• Chapter 23. The Later Nineteenth Century: France! Italy! Germany! and Austria
• Part 5. Other National Traditions of Opera from the Seventeenth 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 Countries
• Chapter 27. National Opera in Russia and Neighboring Countries Central and Eastern Europe Greece and Turkey the Netherlands! Denmark! Sweden, and England 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