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  • Opera for Everyone: A Historic, Social, Artistic, Literary, and Musical Study by Fanelli, Jean Grundy
    Jean Grundy Fanelli

    Opera for Everyone: A Historic, Social, Artistic, Literary, and Musical Study

    Opera for Everyone is a concise history of opera that concentrates on artistic and cultural aspects and links up to history, art, and literature, rather than potted plots, anecdotes, and biographies of composers and performers. Each of the 25 chapters deals with around three...
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  • Music Theater and Popular Nationalism in Spain, 1880-1930 by Young, Clinton D.
    Clinton D. Young

    Music Theater and Popular Nationalism in Spain, 1880-1930

    From its earliest appearance in the mid-1600s, the lyric theater form of zarzuela captivated Spanish audiences with its witty writing and lively musical scores. Clinton D. Young's Music Theater and Popular Nationalism in Spain, 1880-1930 persuasively links zarzuela's celebration of Spanish history and culture...
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  • The Singing Turk: Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon by Wolff, Larry
    Larry Wolff

    The Singing Turk: Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon

    While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a...
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  • Opera and Drama by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    Opera and Drama

    With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera and Drama outlines a new, revolutionary type of musical stage work, which would finally materialize as The Ring of the Nibelung. Wagner's music...
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  • Osmin's Rage by Kivy, Peter
    Peter Kivy

    Osmin's Rage

    In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical--as opposed to a dramatic--necessity for opera during this period and that Mozart's Idomeneo...
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  • Il Trovatore: Vocal Score by Verdi, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Verdi

    Il Trovatore: Vocal Score

    (Vocal Score). Italian/English. Translated by Jeffreys.Author: Giuseppe VerdiISBN-10: 0793584760ISBN-13: 9780793584765Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.90lbsSize: 10.50h x 7.80w x 0.80d
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  • Prima Donna's Album: 42 Celebrated Arias from Famous Operas by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    Prima Donna's Album: 42 Celebrated Arias from Famous Operas

    (Vocal Collection). Contents: Mozart: Durch Zartlichkeit und Schmeicheln (Abduction from the Seraglio) * Ach, ich liebte (Abduction from the Seraglio) * Una donna a quindici anni (Cosi fan tutte) * Per pieta., ben mio (Cosi fan tutte) * Batti, batti (Don Giovanni) * Vedrai,...
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  • The Philosophies of Richard Wagner by Young, Julian
    Julian Young

    The Philosophies of Richard Wagner

    Julian Young presents Richard Wagner as an important philosopher of art and life, first as a utopian anarchist-communist and later as a Schopenhauerian pessimist. Understanding Wagner's philosophy is crucial to understanding his operas, as it is to understanding Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Heidegger.Author: Julian YoungISBN-10:...
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  • Zarzuela!: Baritone by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    Zarzuela!: Baritone

    (Music Sales America). Songs from the Zarzuela for Baritone with piano accompaniment, including notes on the dramatic context of each song and English literal translations by Christopher Webber. This unique collection presents celebrated songs from Zarzula, the popular Spanish tradition of music theatre which...
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  • Giacomo Puccini and His World by Schwartz, Arman
    Arman Schwartz

    Giacomo Puccini and His World

    Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing on Puccini for the first time, offers a variety...
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  • Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century by Abbate, Carolyn
    Carolyn Abbate

    Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century

    Who "speaks" to us in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in Wagner's operas, in a Mahler symphony? In asking this question, Carolyn Abbate opens nineteenth-century operas and instrumental works to new interpretations as she explores the voices projected by music. The nineteenth-century metaphor of music that...
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  • Wagner and the Erotic Impulse by Dreyfus, Laurence
    Laurence Dreyfus

    Wagner and the Erotic Impulse

    Though his image is tarnished today by unrepentant anti-Semitism, Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical eroticism. In this illuminating study of the composer and his works, Laurence Dreyfus shows how Wagner's obsession with sexuality prefigured the...
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  • Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera by Fiedler, Johanna
    Johanna Fiedler

    Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera

    If the opera world is full of "intrigue, double meanings, and devious dramatics," then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous Metropolitan Opera, where politics, ambition, and oversized egos have traditionally taken center stage along with some of the world's richest music. Drawing...
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  • The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain by McGeary, Thomas
    Thomas McGeary

    The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain

    The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain examines the involvement of Italian opera in British partisan politics in the first half of the eighteenth century, which saw Sir Robert Walpole's rise to power and George Frideric Handel's greatest period of opera production. McGeary argues...
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  • The Spectral Piano: From Liszt, Scriabin, and Debussy to the Digital Age by Nonken, Marilyn
    Marilyn Nonken

    The Spectral Piano: From Liszt, Scriabin, and Debussy to the Digital Age

    The most influential compositional movement of the past fifty years, spectralism was informed by digital technology but also extended the aesthetics of pianist-composers such as Franz Liszt, Alexander Scriabin, and Claude Debussy. Students of Olivier Messiaen such as Tristan Murail and G rard Grisey...
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  • Mozart And Masonry by Nettl, Paul
    Paul Nettl

    Mozart And Masonry

    Speculative Masonry was pervasive in eighteenth century society, when Mozart (a Freemason) composed The Magic Flute.Author: Paul NettlISBN-10: 1258116375ISBN-13: 9781258116378Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2011Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.36d
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  • Il Matrimonio Segreto: The Secret Marriage, A Comic Opera (1834) by Cimarosa, Domenico
    Domenico Cimarosa

    Il Matrimonio Segreto: The Secret Marriage, A Comic Opera (1834)

    Il Matrimonio Segreto, also known as The Secret Marriage, is a comic opera written by Italian composer Domenico Cimarosa in 1792. The story is set in 18th century Italy and follows the tale of Carolina, the daughter of Geronimo, a wealthy merchant who wants...
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  • The Singing Girl: Comic Opera In Three Acts (1899) by Stange, Stanislaus
    Stanislaus Stange

    The Singing Girl: Comic Opera In Three Acts (1899)

    ""The Singing Girl"" is a comic opera in three acts written by Stanislaus Stange and first published in 1899. The story revolves around a young woman named Rosalind who dreams of becoming a famous singer. She falls in love with a wealthy man named...
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  • The Idol's Eye: Comic Opera In Three Acts (1897) by Smith, Harry Bache
    Harry Bache Smith

    The Idol's Eye: Comic Opera In Three Acts (1897)

    The Idol's Eye is a comic opera written by Harry Bache Smith and originally published in 1897. The story follows the adventures of a group of American tourists who travel to Europe and become embroiled in a series of comic misadventures. Along the way,...
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  • The Tattooed Man: A Comic Opera (1907) by Smith, Harry Bache
    Harry Bache Smith

    The Tattooed Man: A Comic Opera (1907)

    The Tattooed Man: A Comic Opera is a book written by Harry Bache Smith and was first published in 1907. The book is a comic opera, which means that it is a musical play that is characterized by its humorous and lighthearted tone. The...
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  • The Wizard Of The Nile: Comic Opera In Three Acts (1895) by Smith, Harry Bache
    Harry Bache Smith

    The Wizard Of The Nile: Comic Opera In Three Acts (1895)

    The Wizard of the Nile is a comic opera in three acts, first performed in 1895. The book was written by Harry Bache Smith, an American playwright and lyricist. The story is set in Egypt and follows the adventures of an American tourist named...
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  • Orphee Aux Enfers: An Operetta In Four Tableaux (1868) by Offenbach, Jacques
    Jacques Offenbach

    Orphee Aux Enfers: An Operetta In Four Tableaux (1868)

    Orphee Aux Enfers, also known as Orpheus in the Underworld, is a comedic operetta composed by Jacques Offenbach in 1868. The story is a satirical retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Paris. The operetta is divided into four...
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  • Opera in a Multicultural World: Coloniality, Culture, Performance by Ingraham, Mary
    Mary Ingraham

    Opera in a Multicultural World: Coloniality, Culture, Performance

    Through historical and contemporary examples, this book critically explores the relevance and expressions of multicultural representation in western European operatic genres in the modern world. It reveals their approaches to reflecting identity, transmitting meaning, and inspiring creation, as well as the ambiguities and contradictions...
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  • The Operas of Maurice Ravel by Kilpatrick, Emily
    Emily Kilpatrick

    The Operas of Maurice Ravel

    Maurice Ravel's operas L'Heure espagnole (1907/1911) and L'Enfant et les sortil ges (1919-25) are pivotal works in the composer's relatively small oeuvre. Emerging from periods shaped by very distinct musical concerns and historical circumstances, these two vastly different works nevertheless share qualities that reveal...
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  • The Operas of Maurice Ravel by Kilpatrick, Emily
    Emily Kilpatrick

    The Operas of Maurice Ravel

    Maurice Ravel's operas L'Heure espagnole (1907/1911) and L'Enfant et les sortil ges (1919-25) are pivotal works in the composer's relatively small oeuvre. Emerging from periods shaped by very distinct musical concerns and historical circumstances, these two vastly different works nevertheless share qualities that reveal...
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  • Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music by Bribitzer-Stull, Matthew
    Matthew Bribitzer-Stull

    Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music

    The musical leitmotif, having reached a point of particular forcefulness in the music of Richard Wagner, has remained a popular compositional device up to the present day. In this book, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the background and development of the leitmotif, from Wagner to the...
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  • The Sounds of Paris in Verdi's La Traviata by Sala, Emilio
    Emilio Sala

    The Sounds of Paris in Verdi's La Traviata

    How did Paris and its musical landscape influence Verdi's La traviata? In this book, Emilio Sala re-examines La traviata in the cultural context of the French capital in the mid-nineteenth century. Verdi arrived in Paris in 1847 and stayed for almost two years: there,...
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  • The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia by Vazsonyi, Nicholas
    Nicholas Vazsonyi

    The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia

    Richard Wagner is one of the most controversial figures in Western cultural history. He revolutionized not only opera but the very concept of art, and his works and ideas have had an immeasurable impact on both the cultural and political landscapes of the late...
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  • Lucrezia Borgia: Donizetti by Donizetti, Gaetano
    Gaetano Donizetti

    Lucrezia Borgia: Donizetti

    A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...
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  • Linda Di Chamounix: Opera Completa Per Canto E Pianoforte by Donizetti, Gaetano
    Gaetano Donizetti

    Linda Di Chamounix: Opera Completa Per Canto E Pianoforte

    A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...
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  • La Boheme: Vocal Score by Puccini, Giacomo
    Giacomo Puccini

    La Boheme: Vocal Score

    (Vocal Score). Italian/English. Translated by Grist-Pinkerton.Author: Giacomo PucciniISBN-10: 0634071327ISBN-13: 9780634071324Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 294Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 10.50h x 7.80w x 0.80d
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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Lied by Parsons, James
    James Parsons

    The Cambridge Companion to the Lied

    Several generations before Schubert, the Lied emerged as domestic entertainment destined to move beyond the home to the symphony hall. This introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre analyzes the Lied in its musical, literary, and cultural contexts--with chapters devoted to focal composers; influence of...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera by Waeber, Jacqueline
    Jacqueline Waeber

    The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera

    The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera is a much-needed introduction to one of the most defining areas of Western music history - the birth of opera and its developments during the first century of its existence. From opera's Italian foundations to its growth through...
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  • The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia by Marvin, Roberta Montemorra
    Roberta Montemorra Marvin

    The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia

    Verdi's enduring presence on the opera stages of the world and as a subject for scholarly study by researchers in various disciplines has placed him as a central figure within modern culture. The composer's undisputed popularity from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day,...
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  • Vincenzo Bellini: Norma by Kimbell, David R. B.
    David R. B. Kimbell

    Vincenzo Bellini: Norma

    Norma is considered one of the finest of the ten operas composed during Vincenzo Bellini's short career, representing his genius more comprehensively than is usually the case with any single work by an operatic composer. This handbook provides the biographical and cultural context of...
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  • Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg by Warrack, John
    John Warrack

    Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von N?nberg

    This book presents a lively and informative account of Die Meistersinger von N rnberg, including its literary sources and the evolution of the text from a light comic opera into its final form. John Warrack examines the music and historical tradition of the Mastersingers;...
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  • Singers of Italian Opera: The History of a Profession by Rosselli, John
    John Rosselli

    Singers of Italian Opera: The History of a Profession

    Adelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in the 19th century. She earned nearly $5000 a night and had her own railway carriage; yet during the same period a minor comic singer would perform for the cost of his food and a pair...
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  • Georges Bizet: Carmen by McClary, Susan
    Susan McClary

    Georges Bizet: Carmen

    Bizet's Carmen is probably the best known opera of the standard repertoire, yet its very familiarity often prevents us from approaching it with the seriousness it deserves. This Handbook explores the opera in a number of contexts, bringing to the surface the controversies over...
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  • W. A. Mozart: La Clemenza Di Tito by Rice, John A.
    John A. Rice

    W. A. Mozart: La Clemenza Di Tito

    This is the first book to be devoted to Mozart's opera, La clemenza di Tito. Rice considers the opera from a variety of historical and critical viewpoints. Tito is a political opera. The author examines its origins in the politically unstable Habsburg Empire of...
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  • Richard Strauss: Elektra by Puffett, Derrick
    Derrick Puffett

    Richard Strauss: Elektra

    The contributions to this handbook bring together a full-length study of Elektra in English. The volume examines the many facets of one of Richard Strauss's most complex operas. First, P. E. Easterling surveys the mythological background, while Karen Forsyth discusses Hofmannsthal's adaptation of his...
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  • Richard Strauss, Salome by Puffett, Derrick
    Derrick Puffett

    Richard Strauss, Salome

    This full-length study of Salome is the first in English since Lawrence Gilman's introductory guide of 1907. The handbook presents an informative collection of historical, critical and analytical studies of one of Strauss's most familiar operas. Classic essays by Mario Praz and Richard Ellmann...
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  • Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera by Hinton, Stephen
    Stephen Hinton

    Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera

    This is a book on the best known of the Weill-Brecht collaborations which explores the extent and significance of the composer's contribution. After a detailed reconstruction of the work's genesis and continued revision over three decades, Stephen Hinton examines the spin-offs on which Weill...
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  • W.A. Mozart, Le Nozze Di Figaro by Carter, Tim
    Tim Carter

    W.A. Mozart, Le Nozze Di Figaro

    Le nozze di Figaro (1786) was Mozart's first mature opera buffa. It was also the first of his three major collaborations with the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. Unlike Don Giovanni (1787) and Così fan tutte (1790), Figaro has few obvious problems, and even if...
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  • Wagner: A Biography by Westernhagen, Curt Von
    Curt Von Westernhagen

    Wagner: A Biography

    Originally published in 1981, this is a one-volume paperback edition of Dr von Westernhagen's distinguished biography, first published in English by Cambridge University Press as a hardcover edition in two volumes. Its distinction was that it made use of fresh archive material, and took...
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  • Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff by Hepokoski, James a.
    James a. Hepokoski

    Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff

    This book is a compact, up-to-date guide to the history and construction of Verdi's last - and possibly greatest - opera. Incorporating the findings of the most recent research, it provides performers, opera enthusiasts, students and scholars alike with a reliable summary of what...
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  • Giuseppe Verdi: Otello by Hepokoski, James a.
    James a. Hepokoski

    Giuseppe Verdi: Otello

    James Hepokoski provides a reliable summary of what is currently known about Otello, along with an interpretation of the significance of the work within Verdi's career. The book begins with a detailed synopsis which interweaves some of the specific stage action from the 1887...
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  • The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kindsvolume 16 by Feldman, Martha
    Martha Feldman

    The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds Volume 16

    The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of...
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  • Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre by Rosand, Ellen
    Ellen Rosand

    Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre

    Ellen Rosand shows how opera, born of courtly entertainment, took root in the special social and economic environment of seventeenth-century Venice and there developed the stylistic and aesthetic characteristics we recognize as opera today. With ninety-one music examples, most of them complete pieces nowhere...
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  • Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas by Brown-Montesano, Kristi
    Kristi Brown-Montesano

    Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas

    Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro? Is Don Giovanni's story the only one--or even the most interesting one--in the opera that bears his name? For generations of critics, historians, and directors, it's Mozart's men who have mattered most. Too often, the female...
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  • Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung: A Companion by Spencer, Stewart
    Stewart Spencer

    Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung: A Companion

    There had long been a need for a modern English translation of Wagner's Ring--a version that would be reliable and readable yet at the same time be a true reflection of the literary quality of the German libretto. First published in 1993, this acclaimed...
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