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Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre
Opera in SeventeenthCentury Venice The Creation of a Genre
Author: Ellen Rosand
Ellen Rosand shows how opera, born of courtly entertainment, took root in the special social and economic environment of seventeenth- century Venice and there developed the stylistic and aesthetic characteristics we recognize as opera today. With ninety-one music examples, most of them complete pieces nowhere else in print, and enlivened ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520068087
ISBN-10: 0520068084
Publication Date: 12/1/1990
Pages: 684
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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