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Author Donington, Robert, author.

Title Opera and its symbols : the unity of words, music, and staging / Robert Donington.

Publication Info. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [1990]
©1990

Item Status

Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  ML 1700 .D665 1990    Available  ---
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML1700.D717 O3    Available  ---
Description viii, 248 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-238) and index.
Contents Principles -- A totality of symbols -- Words, music, staging -- Compatibility on stage -- Practice -- The start of opera -- Monteverdi -- The Age of Reason -- The Enlightenment -- A Masonic vision -- The romantic movement -- Verdi -- Early Wagner -- Wagner's Ring -- Further Wagner -- The last of Wagner -- Realism -- Strauss -- The twentieth century -- Musical examples from Wagner's Ring.
Language English text.
Subject Opera.
Opera.
Symbolism in music.
Symbolism in music.
ISBN 0300047134 (alkaline paper)
9780300047134 (alkaline paper)
0300056613 (paperback)
9780300056617 (paperback)