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Product Description: These Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. Among the features of this Guide to La Cenerentola,Philip Gossett throws new light on the remarkable story of the opera's composition,while Colin Graham,ENO producer,argues that it is the most sympathetic of all Rossini's comic masterpieces,and Mark Elder,ENO Music Director,shows how Rossini's musical style is exceptionally well suited to this enchanting story...read more
By Arthur Jacobs (trans)

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9780714544052 | Trafalgar Square, February 1, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: These Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera.

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Product Description: What is a fugue? What is the difference between a saxophone and a saxhorn? Who besides Puccini wrote an opera called La Boheme? In what year was the National Broadcasting Company Orchestra formed under Arturo Toscanini's direction? These and thousands of similar questions are answered in this comprehensive dictionary that remains unrivaled as a single-volume summary...read more

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9780202361932 | Aldine De Gruyter, April 30, 2008, cover price $46.95 | About this edition: What is a fugue?

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9781853263705 | Reprint edition (Wordsworth Editions Ltd, August 1, 1997), cover price $7.99

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Product Description: This text is now in its sixth edition. It has been thoroughly revised and expanded and the additional entries, of which there are over 500, include musical instruments, recent compositions, new composers and rising stars of the opera world...read more

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9780140512908 | 6 sub edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1996), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: This text is now in its sixth edition.
9780140511598 | 5th rep edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 1991), cover price $12.95 | also contains Bill Clinton

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Product Description: This biography of Henry J. Wood coincides with the 100th season of the Proms. With family papers put freely at his disposal, Jacobs deals frankly with Wood's complex personality and relationships. Known as "Timber", Woods was a great trainer of orchestral musicians and master-conductor of choirs...read more

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9780413683908 | Methuen, March 1, 1995, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This biography of Henry J.

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Product Description: A full biography of a composer whose work extended far beyond the operettas for which he is known today.

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9780931340512 | 2 sub edition (Amadeus Pr, August 1, 1992), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: A full biography of a composer whose work extended far beyond the operettas for which he is known today.

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9780192820334 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1988), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Remembered primarily for his collaborations with William Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan was considered the most prodigiously gifted English composer since Purcell.

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Discusses more than 2500 musicians

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9780670807550 | Viking Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Discusses more than 2500 musicians

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Discusses symphonies, concertos, and other orchestral music by seventy-five composers whose works form part of the standard repertory

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9780380710201 | Avon Books, August 1, 1990, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Discusses symphonies, concertos, and other orchestral music by seventy-five composers whose works form part of the standard repertory

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Product Description: Great Opera Classics

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9780517641088 | Random House Value Pub, July 1, 1987, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Great Opera Classics

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Biographical sketches of the composers and critical interpretations of their productions accompany these summaries of eighty-seven famous operas

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9780879100445 | Rev enl su edition (Hal Leonard Corp, October 1, 1985), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Biographical sketches of the composers and critical interpretations of their productions accompany these summaries of eighty-seven famous operas

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9780847662555 | 6 edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, February 28, 1980), cover price $11.50

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