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  • Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician: Revised and Expanded Edition by Dibble, Jeremy
    Jeremy Dibble

    Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician: Revised and Expanded Edition

    Substantially revised and expanded edition that sheds new light on Stanford's career as composer, conductor and teacher, as well as promoter of opera in English and arranger of Irish folk music. The Anglo-Irish composer Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) is often remembered as the teacher...
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  • Seeing Through: A Chronicle of Sex, Drugs, and Opera by Gordon, Ricky Ian
    Ricky Ian Gordon

    Seeing Through: A Chronicle of Sex, Drugs, and Opera

    The true confessions of a working opera composer: an exhilarating story of "a life that comes out of chaos." At eight years old, Ricky Ian Gordon pulled The Victor Book of Opera off his piano teacher's bookshelf, and his world shifted on its axis....
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  • Der Fliegende Holl舅der (the Flying Dutchman) by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    Der Fliegende Holl舅der (the Flying Dutchman)

    Der fliegende Holl nder is the first of Wagner's operas considered to be representative of his mature style. It embodies one of the major themes that recur throughout his work, that of a central character seeking redemption from a loving woman. Originally taken from...
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  • The Bartered Bride - Prodana nevesta: Performance Guide with Translations and Pronunciation by Cheek, Timothy
    Timothy Cheek

    The Bartered Bride - Prodana nevesta: Performance Guide with Translations and Pronunciation

    Bedrich Smetana's opera The Bartered Bride is cherished as the Czech national opera and is the most popular Czech opera in the world. This book presents a detailed guide to performing the opera in Czech and is an indispensable aid for those performing the...
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  • Staging Voice by Grover-Friedlander, Michal
    Michal Grover-Friedlander

    Staging Voice

    Staging Voice is a unique approach to the aesthetics of voice and its staging in performance. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in voice studies, opera, music theatre, musicology, directing, performance studies, practice-based research, theatre, visual art, stage design...
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  • The American Musical: Evolution of an Art Form by West, Ben
    Ben West

    The American Musical: Evolution of an Art Form

    The American Musical is a comprehensive history of an American art form. It delivers a detailed and definitive portrait of the American musical's artistic evolution over the course of seven distinct, newly defined eras, with a unique perspective gleaned from research at more than...
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  • Mexicana: A Mexican Comic Opera by Hubbell, Raymond
    Raymond Hubbell

    Mexicana: A Mexican Comic Opera

    Mexicana: A Mexican Comic Opera is a lighthearted and entertaining romp through Mexican culture and society. Clara Driscoll and Raymond Hubbell's comic opera features catchy tunes and witty libretto that skewer various aspects of Mexican social life. This book is a must-read for fans...
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  • Mexicana: A Mexican Comic Opera by Hubbell, Raymond
    Raymond Hubbell

    Mexicana: A Mexican Comic Opera

    Mexicana: A Mexican Comic Opera is a lighthearted and entertaining romp through Mexican culture and society. Clara Driscoll and Raymond Hubbell's comic opera features catchy tunes and witty libretto that skewer various aspects of Mexican social life. This book is a must-read for fans...
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  • Parsifal - Die beliebtesten Opern: Die Legende um den Heiligen Gral by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    Parsifal - Die beliebtesten Opern: Die Legende um den Heiligen Gral

    Parsifal ist das letzte musikdramatische Werk von Richard Wagner. Wagner selbst bezeichnete das dreiaktige St ck als ein B hnenweihfestspiel und verf gte, dass es ausschlie lich im Bayreuther Festspielhaus aufgef hrt werden sollte. Zur Handlung: Auf einer Waldlichtung nahe der Gralsburg weckt Ritter...
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  • Letters to Wesendonck Et Al. by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    Letters to Wesendonck Et Al.

    William Ashton Ellis (1852-1919) abandoned his medical career in order to devote himself to his Wagner studies. Best known for his translations of Wagner's prose works, Ellis also translated Wagner's letters to family and friends. In this 1899 publication, most of the letters are...
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  • The Life of Richard Wagner by Newman, Ernest
    Ernest Newman

    The Life of Richard Wagner

    Ernest Newman's four-volume Life of Wagner, originally published between 1933 and 1947, remains a classic work of biography. The culmination of forty years' research on the composer and his works (Newman's first Study of Wagner was first published in 1899), these books present a...
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  • Drama and the World of Richard Wagner by Borchmeyer, Dieter
    Dieter Borchmeyer

    Drama and the World of Richard Wagner

    Richard Wagner continues to be the most controversial artist in history, a perpetually troubling figure in our cultural consciousness. The unceasing debate over his works and their impact--for and against--is one reason why there has been no genuinely comprehensive modern account of his musical...
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  • Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement, Second Edition by Morrison, Simon
    Simon Morrison

    Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement, Second Edition

    Acclaimed for treading new ground in operatic studies of the period, Simon Morrison's influential and now-classic text explores music and the occult during the Russian Symbolist movement. Including previously unavailable archival materials about Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky, this wholly revised edition is both up to...
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  • The Flying Dutchman in Full Score by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    The Flying Dutchman in Full Score

    In The Flying Dutchman, finished in 1841 and first presented at Dresden in 1843, Wagner achieved the first true representation of his mature style as a German Romantic composer. As in his later works, the opera is based on legend, with a simple outline...
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  • The New Grove Guide to Verdi and His Operas by Parker, Roger
    Roger Parker

    The New Grove Guide to Verdi and His Operas

    Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information on the lives of individual composers, their works, their librettists and interpreters, and the places where they performed....
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  • Selected Opera Arias: Baritone Edition by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    Selected Opera Arias: Baritone Edition

    (Vocal Collection). Many students only need a few opera arias in their vocal study. Selected Opera Arias extracts 10 arias useful to the typical voice student from the G. Schirmer Opera Anthology, with plot notes, translations and IPA, and combines them with the diction...
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  • Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music: Singing Devils and Distant Sounds Volume 14 by Franklin, Peter
    Peter Franklin

    Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music: Singing Devils and Distant Sounds Volume 14

    Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic period--Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Puccini--regarded by many critics as perhaps not quite of the first rank? Why has modernist discourse continued to brand these works as overly sentimental and emotionally...
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  • Analyzing Wagner's Operas: Alfred Lorenz and German Nationalist Ideology by McClatchie, Stephen
    Stephen McClatchie

    Analyzing Wagner's Operas: Alfred Lorenz and German Nationalist Ideology

    An examination of work by the German music theorist, Alfred Lorenz, to explain Wagner's operas and how they fit with German nationalist ideology. The work of the Wagnerian theorist and analyst Alfred Lorenz (1869-1939) has had a profound influence upon both Wagnerian scholarship and...
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  • Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson by Franseen, Kristin M.
    Kristin M. Franseen

    Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson

    Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. It will be made available open access after three years. Imagining Musical Pasts explores the complicated archive of sources, interpretations, and people present in queer writings on opera and symphonic...
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  • Souvenir, Season Of Wagner Opera In German, 1895 by New York (N Y ) Metropolitan Opera H
    New York (N Y ) Metropolitan Opera H

    Souvenir, Season Of Wagner Opera In German, 1895

    Relive the glory of the Metropolitan Opera's 1895 season with this fascinating souvenir book, filled with photos, illustrations, and program notes from the performances of Richard Wagner's greatest operas. This book features full-color reproductions of the original program covers, as well as rare photographs...
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  • Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen: The Dramaturgy of Disavowal by Levin, David J.
    David J. Levin

    Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen: The Dramaturgy of Disavowal

    This highly original book draws on narrative and film theory, psychoanalysis, and musicology to explore the relationship between aesthetics and anti-Semitism in two controversial landmarks in German culture. David Levin argues that Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Fritz Lang's 1920s...
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  • Twenty-Five Works for the Dramatic Soprano Voice by Sasnett, Kathleen
    Kathleen Sasnett

    Twenty-Five Works for the Dramatic Soprano Voice

    "What should I perform?" This book is to serve as a study guide of twentyfive works for the dramatic soprano voice with orchestra. Criteria used for inclusion include range, tessitura, orchestral scoring, dramatic intensity, and cultural diversity. There are examples of works dating from...
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  • Women in Nineteenth-Century Czech Musical Culture: Apostles of a Brighter Future by Bunzel, Anja
    Anja Bunzel

    Women in Nineteenth-Century Czech Musical Culture: Apostles of a Brighter Future

    This volume focuses on the circumstances of women's music-making in the diverse environment of Habsburg Central Europe, especially Bohemia and Lower Austria, during the 19th century. It sheds light on little-known women musicians, and reconsiders well-works and composers from woman-centric perspectives.Author: Anja BunzelISBN-10: 1032206594ISBN-13:...
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  • Evenings at the Opera: An Exploration of the Basic Repertoire by Langford, Jeffrey
    Jeffrey Langford

    Evenings at the Opera: An Exploration of the Basic Repertoire

    EVENINGS AT THE OPERA: INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS IN HISTORY ANALYSIS AND APPRECIATIONAuthor: Jeffrey LangfordISBN-10: 1574671871ISBN-13: 9781574671872Publisher: AmadeusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2011Pages: 378Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.06w x 0.93dReview Citation(s): Choice 11/01/2011
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  • Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution by Polzonetti, Pierpaolo
    Pierpaolo Polzonetti

    Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution

    How did revolutionary America appear to European audiences through their opera glasses? The operas studied in this volume are populated by gun-toting and slave-holding Quakers, handsome Native Americans, female middle-class political leaders, rebellious British soldiers and generous businessmen. Most of them display an unprecedented...
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  • La Mascotte: Opera Comique in Three Acts by Audran, Edmond 1842-1901
    Edmond 1842-1901 Audran

    La Mascotte: Opera Comique in Three Acts

    First performed in Paris in 1880, La Mascotte is one of the most popular operettas of the 19th century. Combining sparkling music, witty lyrics, and a charming storyline, it tells the tale of a good-luck charm that brings love and fortune to all who...
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  • The Art of Writing Opera-librettos: Practical Suggestions by Edward Istel by Istel, Edgar 1880-1948
    Edgar 1880-1948 Istel

    The Art of Writing Opera-librettos: Practical Suggestions by Edward Istel

    This practical guide offers tips and suggestions for writing opera librettos. Drawing on his own experiences as a librettist, Edward Istel provides insights into the creative process and offers advice on structure, character development, and collaboration with composers. Co-author Theodore Baker is a well-known...
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  • Wagner's Ring Cycle and the Greeks by Foster, Daniel H.
    Daniel H. Foster

    Wagner's Ring Cycle and the Greeks

    Through his reading of primary and secondary classical sources, as well as his theoretical writings, Richard Wagner developed a Hegelian-inspired theory linking the evolution of classical Greek politics and poetry. This book demonstrates how, by turning theory into practice, Wagner used this evolutionary paradigm...
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  • The Story Of The Savoy Opera: In Gilbert And Sullivan Days by Fitz-Gerald, S. J. Adair
    S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald

    The Story Of The Savoy Opera: In Gilbert And Sullivan Days

    The Story of the Savoy Opera: In Gilbert and Sullivan Days is a book written by S.J. Adair Fitz-Gerald. It provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of the Savoy Opera, a genre of comic opera that emerged in the late 19th...
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  • Rape at the Opera: Staging Sexual Violence by Cormier, Margaret
    Margaret Cormier

    Rape at the Opera: Staging Sexual Violence

    The most-performed operas today were written at least a hundred years ago and carry some outdated and deeply problematic ideas. When performed uncritically, the misogyny, racism, and other ideologies present in many of these works clash with modern sensibilities. In Rape at the Opera,...
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  • The Choice of Odysseus: Homeric Ethics in Renaissance Epic and Opera by Van Der Laan, Sarah
    Sarah Van Der Laan

    The Choice of Odysseus: Homeric Ethics in Renaissance Epic and Opera

    The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics--tools for living developed in poetry--to navigate the challenges of their age. As they endured schisms, ruptures, and failures of ideals, readers and poets turned to the Odyssey...
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  • The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by Shaw, Bernard
    Bernard Shaw

    The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring

    The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a...
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  • The Beggar's Opera by Havel, Vaclav
    Vaclav Havel

    The Beggar's Opera

    The Czech President Vaclav Havel, a force on behalf of international human rights and his country's most celebrated dissident, first gained prominence as a playwright. During the period when Havel was blacklisted by the Czechoslovakian government for his political activism, productions of his work...
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  • Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov: Myths, Realities, Reconsiderations by Emerson, Caryl
    Caryl Emerson

    Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov: Myths, Realities, Reconsiderations

    Caryl Emerson, a literary specialist, and Robert William Oldani, a music historian, take a new and comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera, Musorgsky's Boris Godunov. The result is both a historical study of a famous work and an interpretative piece of scholarship....
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  • The Essence of Opera by Weisstein, Ulrich
    Ulrich Weisstein

    The Essence of Opera

    The process of operatic creation revealed in original writings by librettists and composers from 1600 to the present.Author: Ulrich WeissteinISBN-10: 0393004988ISBN-13: 9780393004984Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1969Pages: 388Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.86d
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  • György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque by Edwards, Peter
    Peter Edwards

    György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque

    György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (1974-77, revised 1996) has consolidated its position as one of the major operatic works of the twentieth century. Few operas composed since the 1970s have received such numerous productions, bringing the eclectic score to a global audience. Famously dubbed...
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  • Bel Canto Bully: The Life and Times of the Legendary Opera Impresario Domenico Barbaja by Eisenbeiss, Philip
    Philip Eisenbeiss

    Bel Canto Bully: The Life and Times of the Legendary Opera Impresario Domenico Barbaja

    Unscrupulous, devilishly ambitious and undeniably charismatic, Domenico Barbaja was the most celebrated Italian impresario of the early 1800s and one of the most intriguing characters to dominate the operatic empire of the period. Dubbed the "Viceroy of Naples", Barbaja was the influential force behind...
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  • Opera Cinema: A New Cultural Experience by Attard, Joseph
    Joseph Attard

    Opera Cinema: A New Cultural Experience

    Since 2006, leading opera companies have beamed their shows to thousands of cinema screens all over the world - live. 'Opera cinema' is the most successful marriage of this elaborate, esoteric art form and the silver screen. In the twenty-first century, more people watch...
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  • Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age by Steigerwald Ille, Megan
    Megan Steigerwald Ille

    Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age

    Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age draws on seven years of multi-sited ethnography to examine the acclaimed experimental productions of Los Angeles-based opera company The Industry. Steigerwald Ille understands The Industry's productions as part of an emerging...
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  • Fidelio: An Opera In Two Acts. Libretto By Joseph Sonnleithner With Successive Revisions By Stephan Von Breuning And Friedrich by Beethoven, Ludwig Van
    Ludwig Van Beethoven

    Fidelio: An Opera In Two Acts. Libretto By Joseph Sonnleithner With Successive Revisions By Stephan Von Breuning And Friedrich

    Fidelio is an enduring masterpiece of opera that tells the story of love, sacrifice and heroism. This edition includes the libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner with successive revisions by Stephan Von Breuning and Friedrich Treitschke. The vocal score has been newly revised by Gustav F...
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  • Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age by Steigerwald Ille, Megan
    Megan Steigerwald Ille

    Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age

    Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age draws on seven years of multi-sited ethnography to examine the acclaimed experimental productions of Los Angeles-based opera company The Industry. Steigerwald Ille understands The Industry's productions as part of an emerging...
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  • Gracchus: A Tragic Opera in Three Acts by Hughes, David
    David Hughes

    Gracchus: A Tragic Opera in Three Acts

    Gracchus is a grand opera that tells of an unforgettable human drama set to soaring music. The whole unfolds according to the principles of the total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk), incorporating perennial human themes while embracing music, poetry, dance, scenography, and philosophical reflection in...
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  • The World Got Away: A Memoir by Rouse, Mikel
    Mikel Rouse

    The World Got Away: A Memoir

    One of the most innovative composers of his generation, Mikel Rouse is known for a trilogy of operas that includes Dennis Cleveland and a gift for superimposing pop vernaculars onto avant-garde music. This memoir channels Rouse's high energy personality into an exuberant account of...
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  • Giuseppe Verdi: His Life And Works by Toye, Francis
    Francis Toye

    Giuseppe Verdi: His Life And Works

    Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Works is a comprehensive biography of the legendary Italian composer, written by Francis Toye. The book covers Verdi's life from his birth in a small village in Italy in 1813 to his death in Milan in 1901. It explores...
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  • Memoirs And Letters Of Madame Malibran V2 (1840) by Malibran, Maria
    Maria Malibran

    Memoirs And Letters Of Madame Malibran V2 (1840)

    The book ""Memoirs and Letters of Madame Malibran V2"" is a collection of personal memoirs and letters of the famous opera singer, Maria Malibran. The book is a second volume and was originally published in 1840. The memoirs provide an intimate insight into the...
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  • Rape at the Opera: Staging Sexual Violence by Cormier, Margaret
    Margaret Cormier

    Rape at the Opera: Staging Sexual Violence

    The most-performed operas today were written at least a hundred years ago and carry some outdated and deeply problematic ideas. When performed uncritically, the misogyny, racism, and other ideologies present in many of these works clash with modern sensibilities. In Rape at the Opera,...
    $29.95
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  • Pélléas & Mélisande: Alladine & Palomides: Home by Maeterlinck, Maurice
    Maurice Maeterlinck

    Pélléas & Mélisande: Alladine & Palomides: Home

    A collection of three of Maeterlinck's plays that explore themes of love, betrayal, and the supernatural. Pélléas et Mélisande is a classic tragedy set in medieval times, while Alladine et Palomides and Home are shorter plays that delve into the mysterious and otherworldly.This work...
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  • The Star Of La Scala: Or, Recollections Of Madame Malibran, In The Autumn Of 1835 by Anonymous
    Anonymous

    The Star Of La Scala: Or, Recollections Of Madame Malibran, In The Autumn Of 1835

    This book provides a vivid account of the Italian opera singer Maria Malibran's performances at La Scala in Milan in the autumn of 1835. The anonymous author, who is presumed to be a member of the audience, describes Malibran's artistry in detail and provides...
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  • C.W. Von Gluck, Orfeo by Howard, Patricia
    Patricia Howard

    C.W. Von Gluck, Orfeo

    This book explains how and why Gluck's historically important and best-loved opera Orfeo came into existence, and shows why it has retained its popularity. The work is placed in its context of Gluck's 'reform of opera', an artistic movement involving actors, dancers, designers, writers...
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  • Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter Volume 5 by Heller, Michael C.
    Michael C. Heller

    Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter Volume 5

    Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dialogue with a range of sensory and affective modalities, including physical co-presence, textual...
    $85.00
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