Opera : the basics /

Main Author: Gallo, Denise P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2006.
Series:The basics
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Oorigins of opera
  • 2. Musical terminology
  • 3. Musical and text relationships
  • 4. Professions
  • 5. Singers
  • 6. Opera onstage and off
  • 7. Opera as a mirror of society
  • 8. Serious and semi-serious opera
  • 9. Comic opera and operetta
  • 10. Vernacular opera
  • 11. Scores and editions.