The Ashgate Library of Essays in Opera Studies: The Ashgate Library of Essays in Opera Studies
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Essays on Opera, 1750-1800
1st Edition
Edited
By John A. Rice
October 14, 2024
The study of opera in the second half of the eighteenth century has flourished during the last several decades, and our knowledge of the operas written during that period and of their aesthetic, social, and political context has vastly increased. This volume explores opera and operatic life of the ...
National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume I: Italy, France, England and the Americas
1st Edition
Edited
By Steven Huebner
October 14, 2024
This volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). The book is divided into four sections that are thematically, rather than geographically, conceived: Places-essays centering on contexts for operatic culture; Genres and ...
National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume II: Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael C. Tusa
October 14, 2024
This volume offers a cross-section of English-language scholarship on German and Slavonic operatic repertories of the "long nineteenth century," giving particular emphasis to four areas: German opera in the first half of the nineteenth century; the works of Richard Wagner after 1848; Russian opera ...
Opera Remade, 1700�1750
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles Dill
October 14, 2024
Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work. Recent research on this period has been especially fruitful, showing renewed interest in how opera operated within its local cultures, what audience members felt was at stake in opera ...
Opera after 1900
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret Notley
October 14, 2024
The articles reprinted in this volume treat operas as opera and from some sort of critical angle; none of the articles uses methodology appropriate for another kind of musical work. Additional criteria used in selecting the articles were that they should not have been reprinted widely before and ...
Studies in Seventeenth-Century Opera
1st Edition
Edited
By Beth L. Glixon
October 14, 2024
The past four decades have seen an explosion in research regarding seventeenth-century opera. In addition to investigations of extant scores and librettos, scholars have dealt with the associated areas of dance and scenery, as well as newer disciplines such as studies of patronage, gender, and ...