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| 1. |  | Title: Opera in seventeenth-century Venice: the creation of a genre  Author: Rosand, Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Opera | European History Publisher's Description: 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 piece . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: The ultimate art: essays around and about opera Author: Littlejohn, David 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Music | Opera Publisher's Description: Anyone who cares about opera will find The Ultimate Art a thoroughly engaging book. David Littlejohn's essays are exciting, provocative, sometimes even outrageous. They reflect his deep love of opera - that exotic, extravagant, and perpetually popular hybrid performing art form - and his fascination . . . [more] Similar Items |