| Description |
xxiii, 316 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to music
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Cambridge companions to music.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-307) and index. |
| Contents |
Opera as process / Pierpaolo Polzonetti -- Aria as drama / James Webster -- Ensembles and finales / Caryl Clark -- Metastasio : the dramaturgy of eighteenth-century heroic opera / Francesco Cotticelli, Paologiovanni Maione -- Roles and acting / Gianni Cicali -- Ballet / Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- Orchestra and voice in eighteenth-century Italian opera / John Spitzer -- To look again (at Don Giovanni) / Alessandra Campana -- Genre and form in French opera / David Charlton -- Genre and form in German opera / Estelle Joubert -- Opera in eighteenth-century England : English opera, masques, ballad operas / Michael Burden -- Opera in Naples / Anthony R. DelDonna -- Portugal and Brazil / Manuel Carlos de Brito -- Opera, genre, and context in Spain and its American colonies / Louise K. Stein, Jóse Máximo Leza. |
| Subject |
Opera -- 18th century.
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| Added Author |
DelDonna, Anthony.
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Polzonetti, Pierpaolo.
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| Added Title |
Eighteenth-century opera |
| ISBN |
9780521873581 (hbk.) |
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0521873584 (hbk.) |
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9780521695381 (pbk.) |
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0521695384 (pbk.) |
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