pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: A SHORT HISTORY OF OPERA
By: Donald Grout, Hermine Weigel Williams
Format: Hardback

List price: £50.00
Our price: £40.00
Discount:
20% off
You save: £10.00
ISBN 10: 0231119585
ISBN 13: 9780231119580
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
 Delivery rates
Stock: Currently 0 available
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 27 June, 2003
Edition: 4th edition
Pages: 992
Description: Traces the developments in the evolution of musical drama. This book aims to reveal the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and its progress. It examines the standard performance repertoire and works considered important for the genre's development. It also presents an investigation of opera from Eastern European countries and Finland.
Synopsis: When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have.The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day. A Short History of Opera examines not only the standard performance repertoire, but also works considered important for the genre's development. Its expanded scope investigates opera from Eastern European countries and Finland. The section on twentieth-century opera has been reorganized around national operatic traditions including a chapter devoted solely to opera in the United States, which incorporates material on the American musical and ties between classical opera and popular musical theater. A separate section on Chinese opera is also included.With an extensive multilanguage bibliography, more than one hundred musical examples, and stage illustrations, this authoritative one-volume survey will be invaluable to students and serious opera buffs. New fans will also find it highly accessible and informative. Extremely thorough in its coverage, A Short History of Opera is now more than ever the book to turn to for anyone who wants to know about the history of this art form.
Illustrations: 30 photos, 143 music examples
Publication: US
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:
A HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC (HB)
A HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC (HB)
A HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC (PB)
A HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC (PB)
A HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC (PB)
A SHORT HISTORY OF OPERA
A SHORT HISTORY OF OPERA (HB)
HANES CERDDORIAETH Y GORLLEWIN (HB)
HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC
HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC (PB)
MISS BEECHER'S HOUSEKEEPER AND HEALTHKEEPER
NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WESTERN MUSIC (PB)
NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WESTERN MUSIC (PB)
NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WESTERN MUSIC (PB)
NORTON RECORDED ANTHOLOGY OF WESTERN MUSIC
NORTON RECORDED ANTHOLOGY OF WESTERN MUSIC
NORTON RECORDED ANTHOLOGY OF WESTERN MUSIC
SIBELIUS AND HIS MASONIC MUSIC
SIBELIUS AND HIS MASONIC MUSIC (HB)
THE INNOVATIVE UNIVERSITY (HB)
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WESTERN MUSIC
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WESTERN MUSIC (PB)
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WESTERN MUSIC (PB)
THE OPERAS (PB)
THERESE VON JAKOB ROBINSON
THOMAS HASTINGS
THOMAS HASTINGS (HB)

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
Oyster (Hardback)
Abrams
Our Price : £18.25
more details
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The Tudors: England 1485-1603 (Paperback)
Oxford University Press
Our Price : £30.62
more details
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The American Dream: Reality and Illusion 1945-1980 (Paperback)
Oxford University Press
Our Price : £28.44
more details
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The Quest for Political Stability: Germany 1871-1991 (Paperback)
Oxford University Press
Our Price : £30.62
more details
Oxford AQA History for A Level: Challenge and Transformation: Britain c1851-1964 (Paperback)
Oxford University Press
Our Price : £30.62
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 HUMANITIES
 history
 history of specific subjects


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 






Early Learning
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB) Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
add to basket

Early Learning
add to basket

Picture Book
All the Things We Carry PB What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
add to basket