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Opera libretti of the eighteenth century : essays on the libretto as enlightenment text / edited and compiled by Pamela Gay-White ; with a foreword by Alfred E. Lemmon.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML2110 .O647 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Libretto--18th century.
- Libretto.
- Opera--18th century.
- Opera.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 235 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston, New York : Edwin Mellen Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Forsaking all 'others' : marriage and the birth of comedy in Jean-Philippe Rameau's Platee / by Marcie Ray
- Rousseau and the operatic sentimental / by Pamela Gay-White
- The Pasha does not sing : enlightenment themes and their musical treatment in Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail / by Laurel Zeiss
- Beaumarchais' Tarare : courtly art and radical enlightenment / by Daren Hodson
- Matrimonio segreto : marriage options in Venetian comic opera / by Adrienne Ward
- La Tosca or the perfect anti-18th century libretto / by Susan Vandiver Nicassio.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dhiren H. Shah W'82 and Katherine M. Shah Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1495503003
- 9781495503009
- OCLC:
- 898158599
- Publisher Number:
- 99962943063
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