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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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1991]
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| Series: | Centennial book.
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