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  • Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera: A History by Harris-Warrick, Rebecca
    Rebecca Harris-Warrick

    Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera: A History

    Since its inception, French opera has embraced dance, yet all too often operatic dancing is treated as mere decoration. Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera exposes the multiple and meaningful roles that dance has played, starting from Jean-Baptiste Lully's first opera in 1672....
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  • Die Walküre by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    Die Walk?e

    A landmark in the history of opera, Die Walk re is the most popular and most frequently performed opera among those that make up the Ring Cycle. It contains some of Wagner's best-known and most memorable music and stands alone as a complete work.This...
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  • Compl Operas of Richard Wagner PB by Osborne, Charles
    Charles Osborne

    Compl Operas of Richard Wagner PB

    Wagner's operas can be counted among the most important works of art of the nineteenth century. But Wagner was a composer around whom violent artistic, political, and literary controversies raged during his lifetime. Even today, Wagner's music seems to arouse either adulation or antipathy....
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  • D'Oyly Carte: The Decline and Fall of an Opera Company by Seeley, Paul
    Paul Seeley

    D'Oyly Carte: The Decline and Fall of an Opera Company

    This book considers and discusses aspects of the management of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the twentieth century since the death of its founder Richard D'Oyly Carte, and concentrates on key events that contributed to its demise in 1982. In this book, Paul...
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  • Coquettes, Wives, and Widows: Gender Politics in French Baroque Opera and Theater by Ray, Marcie
    Marcie Ray

    Coquettes, Wives, and Widows: Gender Politics in French Baroque Opera and Theater

    A revelatory study of how composers and dramatists of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France criticized and trivialized independent women in their portrayals of them in works of theater and opera. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French theatrical works created an uneasy dialogue with the often-blistering depictions of...
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  • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: A Biography by Neunzig, Hans A.
    Hans A. Neunzig

    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: A Biography

    The predominant lieder singer of his generation, Fischer-Dieskau also had a distinguished career on the operatic stage. This biography provides a comprehensive and frank account of his extraordinary career, from his debut in Verdi's Don Carlos in 1948 to his farewell concert appearance in...
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  • Center Stage: Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe by Ther, Philipp
    Philipp Ther

    Center Stage: Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe

    Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed...
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  • Dido and Aeneas: Vocal Score by Purcell, Henry
    Henry Purcell

    Dido and Aeneas: Vocal Score

    In perhaps the most famous English opera, Dido tells the story of the Queen of Carthage and her love for Aeneas. Purcell's opera includes the sublime lament, Dido's 'When I Am Laid in Earth'.Author: Henry PurcellISBN-10: 153972543XISBN-13: 9781539725435Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/26/2016Pages:...
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  • Definitive Opera Encyclopedia: New & Expanded Edition by Sadie, Stanley
    Stanley Sadie

    Definitive Opera Encyclopedia: New & Expanded Edition

    Updated and expanded version of the classic reference work, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Opera, this new text edition examines the history and development of opera, from its roots in the theatrical choral dances of Ancient Greece, through the sublime compositions of Handel and Mozart...
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  • Claude Debussy, Pelleas Et Melisande by Nichols, Roger
    Roger Nichols

    Claude Debussy, Pelleas Et Melisande

    This first comprehensive guide to Debussy's only completed opera, Pell饌s et M駘isande was written by the leading authorities on French music of the period. As a background to the opera, the authors, together with David Grayson, discuss various aspects of the play. They consider...
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  • Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde by Scruton, Roger
    Roger Scruton

    Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde

    A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's arms. While critics have lauded Wagner's Tristan and Isolde for the originality...
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  • Bringing Soprano Arias to Life by Goldovsky, Boris
    Boris Goldovsky

    Bringing Soprano Arias to Life

    New in Paperback! This book supplies a soprano with nearly everything she may need to perform the operatic arias discussed. The 28 arias included are chosen from among those that are more popular and most widely studied and performed. There are descriptions of stage...
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  • Beethoven: The String Quartets by Vernon, David
    David Vernon

    Beethoven: The String Quartets

    '[An] extraordinary and exciting book' - John SimpsonBeethoven's string quartets have long been held up as the pinnacle of chamber music: their fertility, complexity, depth and range mark them out as amongst the greatest of all musical creations. Yet they are also elusive, slippery...
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  • Britten's Unquiet Pasts by Wiebe, Heather
    Heather Wiebe

    Britten's Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction

    Examining the intersections between musical culture and a British project of reconstruction from the 1940s to the early 1960s, this study asks how gestures toward the past negotiated issues of recovery and renewal. In the wake of the Second World War, music became a...
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  • Bill Viola: Love/Death - The Tristan Project by Perov, Kira
    Kira Perov

    Bill Viola: Love/Death - The Tristan Project

    In 2004, the opera scene was taken by storm by the ground-breaking production of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde in Los Angeles. This book offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the visionary American artist Bill Viola created four hours of video as a...
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  • Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes by Brett, Philip
    Philip Brett

    Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes

    Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is one of the few operas of the last half-century to have gained a secure place in the repertory. Its appearance in 1945 shortly after the end of the war in Europe was a milestone in operatic history as well...
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  • Carl Maria Von Weber by Warrack, John
    John Warrack

    Carl Maria Von Weber

    The first edition of John Warrack's study of Weber was published in 1968 and quickly became recognized as the standard 'life and works' - indeed the best book on Weber in any language. The second edition was produced in 1976 to mark the 150th...
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  • Brecht at the Opera: Volume 9 by Calico, Joy H.
    Joy H. Calico

    Brecht at the Opera: Volume 9

    From an award-winning author, the first thorough examination of the important influence of opera on Brecht's writings. Brecht at the Opera looks at the German playwright's lifelong ambivalent engagement with opera. An ardent opera lover in his youth, Brecht later denounced the genre as...
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  • Carmen Abroad: Bizet's Opera on the Global Stage by Langham Smith, Richard
    Richard Langham Smith

    Carmen Abroad: Bizet's Opera on the Global Stage

    A transnational history of the performance, reception, translation, adaptation and appropriation of Bizet's Carmen from 1875 to 1945.Author: Richard Langham SmithISBN-10: 1108723039ISBN-13: 9781108723039Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/23/2022Pages: 386Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.80d
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  • Beethoven and the Lyric Impulse: Essays on Beethoven Song by Glauert, Amanda
    Amanda Glauert

    Beethoven and the Lyric Impulse: Essays on Beethoven Song

    Amanda Glauert revisits Beethoven's songs and studies his profound engagement with the aesthetics of the poets he was setting, particularly those of Herder and Goethe. The book offers readers a rich exploration of the poetical and philosophical context in which Beethoven found himself when...
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  • Building a Career in Opera from School to Stage: Operapreneurship: CMS Emerging Fields in Music by Harrington, James
    James Harrington

    Building a Career in Opera from School to Stage: Operapreneurship: CMS Emerging Fields in Music

    Building a Career in Opera from School to Stage: Operapreneurship provides early-career singers with an overview of the structure of the opera industry and tools for strategically approaching a career within it. Today's voice students leave the conservatory with better training than ever, but...
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  • Between Opera and Cinema by Joe, Jeongwon
    Jeongwon Joe

    Between Opera and Cinema

    Leading scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together from the silent-film era to today.Author: Jeongwon JoeISBN-10: 0815334508ISBN-13: 9780815334507Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/15/2002Pages: 264Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.28h x 6.28w x 0.88d
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  • Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity by Berger, Karol
    Karol Berger

    Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity

    In this erudite and elegantly composed argument, Karol Berger uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support two groundbreaking claims: first, that it was only in the later eighteenth century that music began to take the flow of time from the...
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  • Brecht at the Opera: Volume 9 by Calico, Joy H.
    Joy H. Calico

    Brecht at the Opera: Volume 9

    From an award-winning author, the first thorough examination of the important influence of opera on Brecht's writings. Brecht at the Opera looks at the German playwright's lifelong ambivalent engagement with opera. An ardent opera lover in his youth, Brecht later denounced the genre as...
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  • Carmen: Libretto by Bizet, Georges
    Georges Bizet

    Carmen: Libretto

    (Opera). French/English. Standard Version with sung recitatives.Author: Georges BizetISBN-10: 0793526205ISBN-13: 9780793526208Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 10.52h x 6.76w x 0.15d
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  • Beauty and Sadness: Mahler's 11 Symphonies by Vernon, David
    David Vernon

    Beauty and Sadness: Mahler's 11 Symphonies

    'A beautiful and important book' - Marina MahlerGustav Mahler wrote some of the most challenging and cherished music of all time: eleven extraordinary symphonies that continue to fascinate, intrigue and infuriate music lovers around the world.In his dazzling new book, David Vernon celebrates these...
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  • Building the Operatic Museum: Eighteenth-Century Opera in Fin-De-Siècle Paris by Gibbons, William
    William Gibbons

    Building the Operatic Museum: Eighteenth-Century Opera in Fin-De-Si鐵le Paris

    The pathbreaking revival in Paris ca. 1900 of long-neglected operas by Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau -- and what this meant to French audiences, critics, and composers. Focusing on the operas of Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau, Building the Operatic Museum examines the role that eighteenth-century...
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  • Beyond Elite Law: Access to Civil Justice in America by Estreicher, Samuel
    Samuel Estreicher

    Beyond Elite Law: Access to Civil Justice in America

    Are Americans making under $50,000 a year compelled to navigate the legal system on their own, or do they simply give up because they cannot afford lawyers? We know anecdotally that Americans of median or lower income generally do without legal representation or resort...
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  • Carmen by Guirard, Ernest
    Ernest Guirard

    Carmen

    Title: Carmen Composer: Georges Bizet Original Publisher: Schirmer The complete French/English vocal score to Bizet's Carmen as originally published by Schirmer in 1895. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project. These are out of print or historical editions,...
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  • Beethoven and the Lyric Impulse: Essays on Beethoven Song by Glauert, Amanda
    Amanda Glauert

    Beethoven and the Lyric Impulse: Essays on Beethoven Song

    Amanda Glauert revisits Beethoven's songs and studies his profound engagement with the aesthetics of the poets he was setting, particularly those of Herder and Goethe. The book offers readers a rich exploration of the poetical and philosophical context in which Beethoven found himself when...
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  • Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage by Naroditskaya, Inna
    Inna Naroditskaya

    Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage

    In Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage, author Inna Naroditskaya investigates the musical lives of four female monarchs who ruled Russia for most of the eighteenth century: Catherine I, Anna, Elizabeth, and Catherine the Great. Engaging with ethnomusicological, historical, and philological...
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  • Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd by Cooke, Mervyn
    Mervyn Cooke

    Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd

    Billy Budd, based on Herman Melville's nautical allegory, is one of Britten's most challenging operas. This comprehensive guide considers the work from both literary and musical viewpoints. Melville's novella is discussed, as is the interpretation given to the novella by the librettists E. M....
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  • Avidly Reads Opera by Kinney, Alison
    Alison Kinney

    Avidly Reads Opera

    "Opera is community, comfort, art, voice, breath, life. It's hope." All art exists to make life more bearable. For Alison Kinney, it was the wild, fantastical world of opera that transformed her listening and her life. Whether we're listening for the first time or...
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  • Bizet's Carmen Uncovered by Langham Smith, Richard
    Richard Langham Smith

    Bizet's Carmen Uncovered

    Bizet's Carmen Uncovered exposes the myths and stereotypes that so often surround this much loved opera by exploring its first staging, and the particularly Spanish contexts in which the opera was conceived, written, and staged. What were the forces that brought Carmen to the...
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  • Bel Canto: A Theoretical and Practical Vocal Method by Marchesi, Mathilde
    Mathilde Marchesi

    Bel Canto: A Theoretical and Practical Vocal Method

    Mathilde Marchesi (1821-1913) was probably the most renowned singing teacher of the late nineteenth century. Herself the pupil of the great Manuel Garcia the Second and the associate of the unsurpassable divas of the middle nineteenth century, she also linked the traditional bel canto...
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  • Carmen in Full Score by Bizet, Georges
    Georges Bizet

    Carmen in Full Score

    When he first heard Carmen, Tchaikovsky enthusiastically predicted it would become the world's most popular opera. Wagner, too, was an admirer of this dramatic masterpiece, and Brahms claimed to have seen it 29 times. At its premiere in Paris in 1873, however, Carmen did...
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  • Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement by Andre, Naomi
    Naomi Andre

    Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement

    From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. Naomi Andr draws on the experiences of performers and...
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  • Building a Career in Opera from School to Stage: Operapreneurship: CMS Emerging Fields in Music by Harrington, James
    James Harrington

    Building a Career in Opera from School to Stage: Operapreneurship: CMS Emerging Fields in Music

    Building a Career in Opera from School to Stage: Operapreneurship provides early-career singers with an overview of the structure of the opera industry and tools for strategically approaching a career within it. Today's voice students leave the conservatory with better training than ever, but...
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  • Callas at Juilliard: The Master Classes by Ardoin, John
    John Ardoin

    Callas at Juilliard: The Master Classes

    Today the celebrated master classes of Maria Callas remain an important part of her legacy. John Ardoin's brilliant transcription, returned to print in this volume, captures the insights of a supremely self-aware artist of impeccable musicianship. In detailed commentaries on seventy-five arias, she talks...
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  • Avidly Reads Opera by Kinney, Alison
    Alison Kinney

    Avidly Reads Opera

    "Opera is community, comfort, art, voice, breath, life. It's hope." All art exists to make life more bearable. For Alison Kinney, it was the wild, fantastical world of opera that transformed her listening and her life. Whether we're listening for the first time or...
    $89.00
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  • Carmen Fantasy for Two Pianos by Anderson, Greg
    Greg Anderson

    Carmen Fantasy for Two Pianos

    Monstrous challenges await. A concert fantasy based on Georges Bizet's beloved opera "Carmen," this show-stopper for two pianos treats its source material with reverence, creativity, and unadulterated joy. Made famous by the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo. "Carmen Fantasy for Two Pianos, based on...
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  • Beyond the Aria: Artistic Self-Empowerment for the Classical Singer: Why You Want It, Why You've Been Denied It, and How to Achieve It by Goren, Neal
    Neal Goren

    Beyond the Aria: Artistic Self-Empowerment for the Classical Singer: Why You Want It, Why You've Been Denied It, and How to Achieve It

    It is no secret that the opera industry is contracting and that there are fewer professional opportunities. But what causes one singer to be in demand over another is not exclusively a special instrument or exceptional vocal technique--rather, the ability to interpret the music...
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  • Britten's Gloriana: Essays and Sources by Banks, Paul
    Paul Banks

    Britten's Gloriana: Essays and Sources

    A collection of essays which explore the cultural background and creative evolution of this once-overlooked work. This volume is based on a selection of papers presented during a study course devoted to Gloriana held at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in 1991....
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  • Caruso's Method of Voice Production: The Scientific Culture of the Voice by Marafioti, P. M.
    P. M. Marafioti

    Caruso's Method of Voice Production: The Scientific Culture of the Voice

    He was the greatest tenor of his day and probably of all time. Trained naturally in singing Neapolitan ballads, Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) achieved a vocal quality often described as "celestial" or "golden." His breath control was such that he could deliver the longest phrase...
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  • Ballet and Opera in the Age of "Giselle" by Smith, Marian
    Marian Smith

    Ballet and Opera in the Age of "Giselle"

    Marian Smith recaptures a rich period in French musical theater when ballet and opera were intimately connected. Focusing on the age of Giselle at the Paris Op駻a (from the 1830s through the 1840s), Smith offers an unprecedented look at the structural and thematic relationship...
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  • Berlioz in Time: From Early Recognition to Lasting Renown by Bloom, Peter
    Peter Bloom

    Berlioz in Time: From Early Recognition to Lasting Renown

    Fourteen revealing essays by a prominent Berlioz authority on some of the composer's acclaimed compositions (the Symphonie fantastique, Les Nuits d'été, Les Troyens) and writings (the celebrated Mémoires). Written for both music lovers and scholars, these essays probe some of Berlioz's major works, including...
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  • Birgit Nilsson: 100: An Homage by Reisch, Rutbert
    Rutbert Reisch

    Birgit Nilsson: 100: An Homage

    Though arguably the last of the "true" Wagnerians, Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005) was by no means limited to Wagner in her repertoire. Her roles as Isolde, Br nnhilde, Salome, Elektra, Dyer's Wife and Turandot were often collectively referred to as the "Nilsson repertoire."...
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  • Black Diva of the Thirties: The Life of Ruby Elzy by Weaver, David E.
    David E. Weaver

    Black Diva of the Thirties: The Life of Ruby Elzy

    While undergoing routine surgery to remove a benign tumor, Ruby Elzy died. She was only thirty-five. Had she lived, she would have been one of the first black artists to appear in grand opera. Although now in the shadows, she was a shining star...
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  • Carmen by Bizet, Georges
    Georges Bizet

    Carmen

    Title: Carmen Composer: Georges Bizet Original Publisher: Choudens The complete score to Bizet's Carmen, as arranged for solo piano by Bizet, originally published by Choudens in 1875. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project. These are out of...
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  • Carmen Abroad: Bizet's Opera on the Global Stage by Langham Smith, Richard
    Richard Langham Smith

    Carmen Abroad: Bizet's Opera on the Global Stage

    From the 'old world' to the 'new' and back again, this transnational history of the performance and reception of Bizet's Carmen - whose subject has become a modern myth and its heroine a symbol - provides new understanding of the opera's enduring yet ever-evolving...
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