A Short History of Opera by Grout, Donald -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half title Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Part 1. Music and Drama to the End of the Sixteenth Century

1. The Lyric Theater of the Greeks 2. Medieval Dramatic Music 3. The Immediate Forerunners of Opera

Part 2. The Seventeenth Century

4. The Beginnings: Opera in Florence and Mantua 5. Other Early Seventeenth-Century Italian Court Operas, Including the First Comic Operas in Florence and Rome 6. Italian Opera in the Later Seventeenth Century in Italy 7. Seventeenth-Century Italian Opera in German-Speaking Lands 8. Early German Opera 9. Opera in France from Lully to Charpentier 10. Opera in England

Part 3. The Eighteenth Century

11. Masters of the Early Eighteenth Century 12. Opera Seria: General Characteristics 13. Opera Seria: The Composers 14. The Operas of Gluck 15. The Comic Opera of the Eighteenth Century 16. The Operas of Mozart and His Viennese Contemporaries

Part 4. The Nineteenth Century

17. The Turn of the Century 18. Grand Opera 19. Opéra Comique, Operetta, and Lyric Opera 20. Italian Opera of the Primo Ottocento: Rossini, Donizetti,Verdi, and Their Contemporaries 21. The Romantic Opera in Germany 22. The Operas of Wagner 23. The Later Nineteenth Century: France, Italy, Germany, and Austria

Part 5. Other National Traditions of Opera from the Seventeenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries

24. National Traditions of Opera

Part 6. The Twentieth Century

25. Introduction / Opera in France and Italy 26. Opera in the German-Speaking Countries 27. National Opera in Russia and Neighboring Countries; Central and Eastern Europe; Greece and Turkey; the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland; Spain, Portugal, and Latin America 28. Opera in the British Isles, Canada,Australia, and New Zealand 29. Opera in the United States

Appendix: Chinese Opera (Xiqu) List of Abbreviations Bibliography Sources and Translations of Musical Examples Index

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