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| Preface | |
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| The Medici Wedding Festivities of 1589 (de' Rossi) | |
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| Pietro Bardi on the Birth of Opera | |
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| L'Euridice, the Second Opera (Buonarroti, Rinuccini, Peri, Caccini) | |
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| Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di anima, et di corpo (Guidotti, Cavalieri) | |
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| Monteverdi Criticizes a Libretto | |
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| Sant'Alessio at the Barberini Palace, Rome (Rospigliosi, Bouchard) | |
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| Opera Comes to Venice and Goes Public (Ivanovich) | |
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| Lully is Granted a Monopoly on Opera in French (Colbert, Lully) | |
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| The Grand Siecle Absorbs the Tragedie en musique (Perrault, La Fontaine, Boileau) | |
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| Saint-Evremond's Views on Opera | |
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| The First English Operas (Dryden) | |
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| Handel's Rinaldo at the Haymarket Theatre (Hill, G. Rossi, Addison, Steele) | |
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| Pier Jacopo Martello on Opera (1715) | |
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| The President de Bosses in Italy (1739) | |
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| Metastasio on Setting Dramatic Recitative to Music | |
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| From Rousseau's Confessions | |
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| The War of the Buffoons (d'Holbach) | |
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| Interlude: A Traveling Company (G. Gozzi) | |
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| Operatic Reform in Vienna: Gluck and Calzabigi | |
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| Gluck in Paris (Meister) | |
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| Mozart at Work on Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail | |
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| Gretry's Richard Coeur-de-Lion (Meister, Gretry) | |
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| The Making of Le nozze di Figaro (L. and W.A. Mozart, Da Ponte) | |
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| Kierkegaard's Don Giovanni | |
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| Fidelio in 1806 (Rockel) | |
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| Berlioz's Estimate of Spontini | |
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| E. T. A. Hoffman on ""Music Drama That Springs from the Heart"" | |
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| The First Performance of Il barbiere di Siviglia (Righetti-Giorgi) | |
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| Der Freischutz: A German Triumph (M. M. von Weber) | |
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| Parisian Grand Opera: Auber's La Muette de Portici as Seen by Wagner | |
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| Interlude: Madame Pasta (Hunt) | |
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| Verdi's Own Story of How Nabucco Was Composed | |
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| Verdi's Operatic Style Analyzed by a Contemporary (Basevi) | |
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| Wagner on the Evolution of his Style | |
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| Wagner's Theory of Drama | |
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| Divergent Reactions to Boris Godunov (Laroche, Stasov) | |
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| Tchaikovsky on Eugene Onegin | |
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| Nietzsche vs. Wagner | |
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| Verdi's Otello (Boito, Verdi, Morelli) | |
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| Interlude: Verdi and Wagner in Vienna (J. Sulzer) | |
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| Verismo (Verga) | |
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| Four Men at Work on La boheme (Illica, Puccini, Ricordi, Giacosa) | |
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| Pelleas et Melisande (Mauclair, journalist, Debussy) | |
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| Strauss and Hofmannsthal Work on Der Rosenkavalier | |
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| Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Ballasz) | |
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| Busoni and the Reinstatement of Disbelief | |
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| In Defense of Kat'a Kabanova (Stuart) | |
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| Alban Berg on Wozzeck | |
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| Brecht on ""Epic Opera"" | |
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| Shostakovich and the Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Debacle (Shostakovich, Pravda) | |
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| Interlude: An Italian Claque (Montale) | |
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| Peter Grimes in Postwar London (Edm. Wilson) | |
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| Stravinsky, Auden, and The Rake's Progress | |
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| A First Reaction to Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites (Mila) | |
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| Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass (Page) | |
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| John Adams on Nixon in China | |
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| Index | |