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When Dr. Johnson characterized the opera as an "irrational entertainment," he unknowingly tapped a vein of musical thought that ran through the entire history of the art-form to that date, and continued beyond. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
completest concert, perfect musical form, pure musical parameters, purely musical parameters, extended picardy, pure musical form, fan tulle, scalewise passages, emotive arousal, uniformity amidst variety, stile rappresentativo, emotive life, opera seria, secco recitative, capo aria, irrational entertainment, esprits animaux, dramatic ensemble, pure instrumental music, leading emotion, instrumental ritornello, sung drama, capo form, additive principle, musical expressiveness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Don Giovanni, Council of Trent, Giulio Cesare, King Lear, Peri's Euridice, Fraser Spiral, Harvard Dictionary, Monteverdi's Orfeo, Winton Dean, Compendium of Music, Goldberg Variations, The Magic Mountain, Agnus Dei, Alban Berg, Büchner's Woyzeck, Die Entführung, Girolamo Mei, Mozart's Idomeneo, South India, The Marriage of Figaro New!
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When Dr. Johnson characterized the opera as an "irrational entertainment," he unknowingly tapped a vein of musical thought that ran through the entire history of the art-form to that date, and continued beyond. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
completest concert, perfect musical form, pure musical parameters, purely musical parameters, extended picardy, pure musical form, fan tulle, scalewise passages, emotive arousal, uniformity amidst variety, stile rappresentativo, emotive life, opera seria, secco recitative, capo aria, irrational entertainment, esprits animaux, dramatic ensemble, pure instrumental music, leading emotion, instrumental ritornello, sung drama, capo form, additive principle, musical expressiveness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Don Giovanni, Council of Trent, Giulio Cesare, King Lear, Peri's Euridice, Fraser Spiral, Harvard Dictionary, Monteverdi's Orfeo, Winton Dean, Compendium of Music, Goldberg Variations, The Magic Mountain, Agnus Dei, Alban Berg, Büchner's Woyzeck, Die Entführung, Girolamo Mei, Mozart's Idomeneo, South India, The Marriage of Figaro New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Don Giovanni in Full Score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on 13 pages
- Strunk's Source Readings in Music History (Revised Edition) by Leo Treitler on 6 pages
- Handel and the Opera Seria (Ernest Bloch Lectures) by Winton Dean on 4 pages
- The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (Expanded Edition) by Charles Rosen on 4 pages
- The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro): Vocal Score by Ruth Martin on 4 pages
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- Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna (Cambridge Studies in Opera) by Mary Hunter on page 411, and Back Matter
- The Fine Art of Repetition: Essays in the Philosophy of Music by Peter Kivy on page 167, and page 250
- Music Matters: A New Philosophy of Music Education by David J. Elliott on page 211, and Back Matter
- Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785 (Cambridge Studies in Opera) by Downing A. Thomas in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Opera: A Research and Information Guide (Routledge Music Bibliographies) by Guy A. Marco on page 88, and Index
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