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Handel on the Stage

Product Description: Of all the great composers of the eighteenth century, Handel was the supreme cosmopolitan, an early and extraordinarily successful example of a freelance composer. For thirty years the opera-house was the principal focus of his creative work and he composed more than forty operas over this period...read more

By David Kimbell

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9780521818414 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2016, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Of all the great composers of the eighteenth century, Handel was the supreme cosmopolitan, an early and extraordinarily successful example of a freelance composer.

Opera Libretti of the Eighteenth Century: Esays on the Libretto As Enlightenment Text

Product Description: The etymology of libretto, traced from the Italian libretti, portends its trans- formation as text during the Enlightenment, defining and differentiating Italian from French cultural ideals. Culminating in a reformulation of opera, numerous debates by the philosophes over the nature of the libretto, com- prising the feasibility of French as a language for opera and the possibility of a unified text comprised of word and tone, cause the emergence of the restyled libretto as Enlightenment text...read more

By Pamela Gay-white (editor)

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9781495503009 | Edwin Mellen Pr, March 15, 2015, cover price $159.95 | About this edition: The etymology of libretto, traced from the Italian libretti, portends its trans- formation as text during the Enlightenment, defining and differentiating Italian from French cultural ideals.

The Secular Commedia: Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-century Music

By Richard Taruskin (editor)

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9780520274075 | Univ of California Pr, June 7, 2014, cover price $60.00

Sentimental Opera: Questions of Genre in the Age of Bourgeois Drama

By Stefano Castelvechhi

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9780521632140 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 9, 2013, cover price $99.00

Ombra: Supernatural Music in the Eighteenth Century

Product Description: Ombra is the term which applies to an operatic scene involving the appearance of an oracle or demon, witches, or ghosts. Such scenes can be traced back to the early days of opera and were commonplace in the seventeenth century in Italy and France...read more

By Clive Mcclelland

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9780739169735 | Lexington Books, March 9, 2012, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Ombra is the term which applies to an operatic scene involving the appearance of an oracle or demon, witches, or ghosts.

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9780739188170 | Lexington Books, October 9, 2013, cover price $36.99 | About this edition: Ombra is the term which applies to an operatic scene involving the appearance of an oracle or demon, witches, or ghosts.

Building the Operatic Museum: Eighteenth-century Opera in Fin De Siecle Paris

Product Description: Focusing on the operas of Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau, Building the Operatic Museum examines the role that eighteenth-century works played in the opera houses of Paris around the turn of the twentieth century. These works, mostly neglected during the nineteenth century, became the main exhibits in what William Gibbons calls the Operatic Museum -- a physical and conceptual space in which great masterworks from the past and present could, like works of visual art in the Louvre, entertain audiences while educating them in their own history and national identity...read more

By William Gibbons

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9781580464000, titled "Building the Operatic Museum: Eighteenth-Century Opera in Fin-de-Siecle Paris" | Univ of Rochester Pr, June 30, 2013, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Focusing on the operas of Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau, Building the Operatic Museum examines the role that eighteenth-century works played in the opera houses of Paris around the turn of the twentieth century.

The Rival Sirens: Performance and Identity on Handel's Operatic Stage

By Suzanne Aspden

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9781107033375 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 27, 2013, cover price $104.99

The Choruses in Mozart's Opere Serie and the Genre and Historical Role of the Opera Chorus

By James A. Shrader

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9780773429284 | Edwin Mellen Pr, September 30, 2012, cover price $129.95

Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi Fan Tutte

Product Description: Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment explains how Mozart's music for Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte 'sounds' the intentions of Da Ponte's characters and their relationships with one another. Mozart, by way of the infinitely generative and beautiful logic of the sonata principle, did not merely interpret Da Ponte's characterizations but lent them temporal, musical forms...read more

By Charles Ford

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9780754668893 | Ashgate Pub Co, August 30, 2012, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment explains how Mozart's music for Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte 'sounds' the intentions of Da Ponte's characters and their relationships with one another.

Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution

By Pierpaolo Polzonetti

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9780521897082 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 29, 2011, cover price $109.99

Essays on Opera, 1750-1800

By John A. Rice (editor)

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9780754629047 | Ashgate Pub Co, December 31, 2010, cover price $350.00

Opera Remade, 1700-1750

By Charles Dill (editor)

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9780754629009 | Ashgate Pub Co, December 16, 2010, cover price $350.00

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-century Opera

Product Description: Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source. Viewing opera as a complex and fascinating form of art and social ritual, rather than reducing it simply to music and text analysis, individual essays investigate aspects such as audiences, architecture of the theaters, marketing, acting style, and the politics and strategy of representing class and gender...read more

By Pierpaolo Polzonetti (editor)

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9780521873581 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 31, 2009), cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source.

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9780521695381 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 31, 2009), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source.

Mozart on the Stage

Product Description: Presenting a fresh approach to Mozart's achievements as a composer for the stage, John A. Rice outlines the composer's place in the operatic culture of his time. The book tells the story of how Mozart's operas came into existence, following the processes that Mozart went through as he brought his operas from commission to performance...read more

By John A. Rice

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9780521816342 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 23, 2009), cover price $89.99 | About this edition: Presenting a fresh approach to Mozart's achievements as a composer for the stage, John A.

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9780521016612 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 23, 2009), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Presenting a fresh approach to Mozart's achievements as a composer for the stage, John A.

Mozart's Operas: A Companion

By Mary Hunter

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9780300118339 | Yale Univ Pr, December 9, 2008, cover price $40.00

Mozart's Operas: A Critical Study

By Edward Joseph Dent

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9781437272321 | Kessinger Pub Co, October 31, 2008, cover price $52.95

9780722254769 | Best Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $98.00

9780404200770 | 2 edition (Ams Pr Inc, May 1, 1994), cover price $32.50

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9781437146493 | Kessinger Pub Co, October 31, 2008, cover price $37.95

9780198162643, titled "Mozart's Operas a Critical Study" | 2 reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1991), cover price $13.95

Ancient Rome in Early Opera

By Robert C. Ketterer

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9780252033780 | Univ of Illinois Pr, November 26, 2008, cover price $42.00

The New Grove Guide to Mozart And His Operas

Product Description: Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information on the lives of individual composers, their works, their librettists and interpreters, and the places where they performed...read more

By Julian Rushton

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9780195313178 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 26, 2007, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information on the lives of individual composers, their works, their librettists and interpreters, and the places where they performed.

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9780195313185 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 26, 2007, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information on the lives of individual composers, their works, their librettists and interpreters, and the places where they performed.

Mozart And His Operas

By David Cairns

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9780520228986 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 2006, cover price $46.95

Recognition In Mozart's Operas

Product Description: Since its beginnings, opera has depended on recognition as a central aspect of both plot and theme. Though a standard feature of opera, recognition--a moment of new awareness that brings about a crucial reversal in the action--has been largely neglected in opera studies...read more

By Jessica Pauline Waldoff

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9780195151978 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 13, 2006, cover price $78.00 | About this edition: Since its beginnings, opera has depended on recognition as a central aspect of both plot and theme.

From Garrick to Gluck: Essays on Opera in the Age of Enlightenment

Product Description: One of the most productive and influential musicologists of our time, Daniel Heartz has published many important books and musical editions. But much of his finest work has taken the form of essays, which he has continued to produce throughout his long career...read more

By Daniel Heartz and John A. Rice

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9781576470817 | Pendragon Pr, November 30, 2004, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: One of the most productive and influential musicologists of our time, Daniel Heartz has published many important books and musical editions.

Domenico Cimarosa: His Life and His Operas

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By Talmage Fauntleroy and Nick Rossi

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9780313301124 | Praeger Pub Text, October 1, 1999, cover price $145.00

Don Giovanni's Progress: A Rake Goes to the Opera

Book by Pirrotta, Nino

By Nino Pirrotta and Harry S. Saunders (trans)

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9780941419710 | Marsilio Pub, September 1, 1994, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Book by Pirrotta, Nino

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9780941419949 | Marsilio Pub, September 1, 1994, cover price $17.00

Cosi?: Sexual Politics in Mozart's Operas

By Charles C. Ford

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9780719034879 | Manchester Univ Pr, December 1, 1991, cover price $89.95

The Metropolitan Opera Book of Mozart Operas

Seven librettos include 'Don Giovanni,' 'Cosi Fan Tutte,' and 'The Magic Flute'

By Judyth Schaubhut Smith, David Stivender and Susan Webb (trans)

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9780062715197 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1991, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Seven librettos include 'Don Giovanni,' 'Cosi Fan Tutte,' and 'The Magic Flute'

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