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" The Cambridge companion to eighteenth-century opera "
edited by Anthony R. DelDonna and Pierpaolo Polzonetti.
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556504
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b385175
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Anthony DelDonna
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The Cambridge companion to eighteenth-century opera\ edited by Anthony R. DelDonna and Pierpaolo Polzonetti.
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press,, 2009.
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Cambridge companions to music.
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xxiii, 316 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm.
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0521695384
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: 0521873584
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: 9781139002585
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Opera as process / Pierpaolo Polzonetti -- Aria as drama / James Webster -- Ensembles and finales / Caryl Clark -- Metastasio : the dramaturgy of eighteenth-century heroic opera / Francesco Cotticelli, Paologiovanni Maione -- Roles and acting / Gianni Cicali -- Ballet / Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- Orchestra and voice in eighteenth-century Italian opera / John Spitzer -- To look again (at Don Giovanni) / Alessandra Campana -- Genre and form in French opera / David Charlton -- Genre and form in German opera / Estelle Joubert -- Opera in eighteenth-century England : English opera, masques, ballad operas / Michael Burden -- Opera in Naples / Anthony R. DelDonna -- Portugal and Brazil / Manuel Carlos de Brito -- Opera, genre, and context in Spain and its American colonies / Louise K. Stein, Jóse Máximo Leza.
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Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source. Viewing opera as a complex and fascinating form of art and social ritual, rather than reducing it simply to music and text analysis, individual essays investigate aspects such as audiences, architecture of the theaters, marketing,Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source. Viewing opera as a complex and fascinating form of art and social ritual, rather than reducing it simply to music and text analysis, individual essays investigate aspects such as audiences, architecture of the theaters, marketing,Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source. Viewing opera as a complex and fascinating form of art and social ritual, rather than reducing it simply to music and text analysis, individual essays investigate aspects such as audiences, architecture of the theaters, marketing,
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Pierpaolo Polzonetti
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