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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface to the Fourth Edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Music and Drama to the End of the Sixteenth Century | |
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| The Lyric Theater of the Greeks | |
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| Medieval Dramatic Music | |
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| The Immediate Forerunners of Opera | |
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| The Seventeenth Century | |
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| The Beginnings: Opera in Florence and Mantua | |
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| Other Early Seventeenth-Century Italian Court Operas, Including the First Comic Operas in Florence and Rome | |
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| Italian Opera in the Later Seventeenth Century in Italy | |
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| Seventeenth-Century Italian Opera in German-Speaking Lands | |
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| Early German Opera | |
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| Opera in France from Lully to Charpentier | |
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| Opera in England | |
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| The Eighteenth Century | |
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| Masters of the Early Eighteenth Century | |
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| Opera Seria: General Characteristics | |
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| Opera Seria: The Composers | |
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| The Operas of Gluck | |
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| The Comic Opera of the Eighteenth Century | |
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| The Operas of Mozart and His Viennese Contemporaries | |
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| The Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Turn of the Century | |
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| Grand Opera | |
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| Opera Comique, Operetta, and Lyric Opera | |
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| Italian Opera of the Primo Ottocento: Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, and Their Contemporaries | |
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| The Romantic Opera in Germany | |
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| The Operas of Wagner | |
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| The Later Nineteenth Century: France, Italy, Germany, and Austria | |
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| Other National Traditions of Opera from the Seventeenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries | |
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| National Traditions of Opera | |
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| The Twentieth Century | |
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| Introduction / Opera in France and Italy | |
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| Opera in the German-Speaking Countries | |
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| National Opera in Russia and Neighboring Countries; Central and Eastern Europe; Greece and Turkey; the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland; Spain, Portugal, and Latin America | |
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| Opera in the British Isles, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand | |
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| Opera in the United States | |
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| Chinese Opera (Xiqu) | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Sources and Translations of Musical Examples | |
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| Index | |