Opera in seventeenth-century Venice : the creation of a genre / 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 piece...

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Main Author: Rosand, Ellen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1991]
Series:Centennial book.
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Music Library

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Call Number: ML 1733.8 .V4 R67 1991
Status: Available