| Physical description |
xlvii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to music. |
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Cambridge companions to music.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-357) and indexes. |
| Contents |
A chronology of twentieth-century operatic premieres Nigel Simeone xviii -- Part 1 Legacies 1 -- 1 Opera in transition / Arnold Whittall 3 -- 2 Wagner and beyond / John Deathridge 14 -- 3 Puccini and the dissolution of the Italian tradition / Virgilio Bernardoni 26 -- Part 2 Trends 45 -- 4 Words and actions / Caroline Harvey 47 -- 5 Symbolist opera: trials, triumphs, tributaries / Philip Weller 60 -- 6 Expression and construction: the stage works of Schoenberg and Berg / Alan Street 85 -- 7 Neo-classical opera / Chris Walton 105 -- Part 3 Topographies 123 -- 8 France and the Mediterranean / Nigel Simeone 125 -- 9 Austria and Germany, 1918-1960 / Guido Heldt 146 -- 10 Eastern Europe / Rachel Beckles Willson 165 -- 11 Russian opera: between modernism and romanticism / Marina Frolova-Walker 181 -- 12 American opera: innovation and tradition / Elise K. Kirk 197 -- 13 Opera in England: taking the plunge / Christopher Mark 209 -- Part 4 Directions 223 -- 14 Music theatre since the 1960s / Robert Adlington 225 -- 15 Minimalist opera / Arved Ashby 244 -- 16 Opera and film / Mervyn Cooke 267 -- 17 Popular musical theatre (and film) / Stephen Banfield 291 -- 18 Opera in the marketplace / Nicholas Payne 306 -- 19 Technology and interpretation: aspects of 'modernism' / Tom Sutcliffe 321. |
| Local note |
Copy 3 in Lenton Parr Music, Visual and Performing Arts Library from the Melba Conservatorium Library Collection |
| Other author |
Cooke, Mervyn.
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| Subject |
Opera -- 20th century.
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| Local series |
Melba Conservatorium Library Collection
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| Standard Number |
9780521783934 (pbk.) |
| ISBN |
0521783933 (paperback) |
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9780521780094 (hardback) |
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0521780098 (hardback) |
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