LEADER 05778nam 22006374a 450 001 9910454506703321 005 20210522000705.0 010 $a1-280-59808-5 010 $a9786613627919 010 $a0-231-50772-0 024 7 $a10.7312/grou11958 035 $a(CKB)1000000000523146 035 $a(EBL)909313 035 $a(OCoLC)828303853 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000284163 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11215063 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284163 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10268786 035 $a(PQKB)11288524 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909313 035 $a(DE-B1597)458906 035 $a(OCoLC)614994198 035 $a(OCoLC)704692527 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231507721 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909313 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183414 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL362791 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000523146 100 $a20021204d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA short history of opera$b[electronic resource] /$fDonald Jay Grout and Hermine Weigel Williams 205 $a4th ed. 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (1049 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-231-11958-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [797]-896) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface to the Fourth Edition --$tIntroduction --$tPart 1. Musk and Drama to the End of the Sixteenth Century --$tChapter 1. The Lyric Theater of the Greeks --$tChapter 2. Medieval Dramatic Music --$tChapter 3. The Immediate Forerunners of Opera --$tPart 2. The Seventeenth Century --$tChapter 4. The Beginnings: Opera in Florence and Mantua --$tChapter 5. Other Early Seventeenth-Century Italian Court Operas; Including the first Comic Operas in Florence and Rome --$tChapter 6. Italian Opera in the Later Seventeenth Century in Italy --$tChapter 7. Seventeenth-Century Italian Opera in German-Speaking Lands --$tChapter 8. Early German Opera --$tChapter 9. Opera in France from Lully to Charpentier --$tChapter 10. Opera in England --$tPart 3. The Eighteenth Century --$tChapter 11. Masters of the Early Eighteenth Century --$tChapter 12. Opera Send: General Characteristics --$tChapter 13. Opera Seria: The Composers --$tChapter 14. The Operas of Gluck --$tChapter 15. The Comic Opera of the Eighteenth Century --$tChapter 16. The Operas of Mozart and His Viennese Contemporaries --$tPart 4. The Nineteenth Century --$tChapter 17. The Turn of the Century --$tChapter 18. Grand Opera --$tChapter 19. Opéra Comique, Operetta, and Lyric Opera --$tChapter 20. Italian Opera of the Primo Ottocento: Rossini, Donizetti! Verdi! and Their Contemporaries --$tChapter 21. The Romantic Opera in Germany --$tChapter 22. The Operas of Wagner --$tChapter 23. The Later Nineteenth Century: France! Italy! Germany! and Austria --$tPart 5. Other National Traditions of Opera from the Seventeenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries --$tChapter 24. National Traditions of Opera --$tPart 6. The Twentieth Century --$tChapter 25. Introduction / Opera in France and Italy --$tChapter 26. Opera in the German-Speaking Countries --$tChapter 27. National Opera in Russia and Neighboring Countries Central and Eastern Europe Greece and Turkey the Netherlands! Denmark! Sweden, and England Spain, Portugal, and Latin America --$tChapter 28. Opera in the British Isles! Canada! Australia! and New Zealand --$tChapter 29. Opera in the United States --$tAppendix --$tAbbreviations --$tBibliography --$tSources and Translations of Musical Examples --$tIndex 330 $aWhen first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have. The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day. A Short History of Opera examines not only the standard performance repertoire, but also works considered important for the genre's development. Its expanded scope investigates opera from Eastern European countries and Finland. The section on twentieth-century opera has been reorganized around national operatic traditions including a chapter devoted solely to opera in the United States, which incorporates material on the American musical and ties between classical opera and popular musical theater. A separate section on Chinese opera is also included. With an extensive multilanguage bibliography, more than one hundred musical examples, and stage illustrations, this authoritative one-volume survey will be invaluable to students and serious opera buffs. New fans will also find it highly accessible and informative. Extremely thorough in its coverage, A Short History of Opera is now more than ever the book to turn to for anyone who wants to know about the history of this art form. 606 $aOpera 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aOpera. 676 $a782.1/09 700 $aGrout$b Donald Jay$0530037 701 $aWilliams$b Hermine Weigel$01035124 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454506703321 996 $aA short history of opera$92454636 997 $aUNINA