| Description |
xvii, 431 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge introductions to music
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Cambridge introductions to music.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Pre-operatic forms ; First operatic forms ; Formalisation ; Reform: the reintegration of elements ; Comedy and the 'real world' ; Authentic performance -- Part II: The nineteenth century. Romanticism and Romantic opera in Germany ; Opera in nineteenth-century Italy ; Grand opera and the visual language of opera ; The Wagnerian revolution ; Nationalists: vernacular language and music ; The role of the singer -- Part III: The twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The turn of the century and the crisis in opera ; First modernism: symbolist and expressionist opera ; The dramaturgy of opera: libretto-words and structures ; Narrative opera: realist and non-realistic ; Radical narratives ; Directors and the direction of opera. |
| Subject |
Opera.
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Opera. |
| ISBN |
9780521763028 hardback |
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0521763029 hardback |
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9780521746472 paperback |
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0521746477 paperback |
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