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Opera scenes for class and stage [electronic resource].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallace, Mary Elaine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Opera.
- Music--Reference.
- Music industry.
- Opera--Production and direction.
- Opera.
- Local Subjects:
- Music--Opera.
- Music--Reference.
- Music industry.
- Opera--Production and direction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Musically sound and fully annotated, this new reference work provides ready access to over 700 excerpts from 100 operas, by voice categories, and thus provides information on a wide variety of matters of interest to directors, teachers, and singers. A table of voice categories, coded excerpts (including length and reference to accessible scores), character descriptions (including estimations of degrees of difficulty of the music), summaries of the action of each excerpt, and indexes to titles, composers, and well-known arias and ensembles make this book an indispensable too
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; A Note on the Text; Table of Voice Categories; Opera Scenes; Selected Bibliography; Index of Operas; Index of Composers; Index of Arias and Ensembles; Index to Editions of Piano- Vocal Scores; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8093-8455-8
- 0-585-18245-0
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