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On Opera.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (170 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300142280
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: On OperaDDC classification:
  • 782.1
LOC classification:
  • ML1700 -- .W48 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Editorial Preface by Patricia Williams -- Introduction by Michael Tanner -- 1 The Nature of Opera: Entry for The New Grove Dictionary of Opera -- 2 Mozart's Comedies and the Sense of an Ending -- 3 Mozart's Figaro -- 4 Don Giovanni as an Idea -- 5 Passion and Cynicism -- 6 Rather Red than Black -- 7 Tristan and Time -- 8 The Elusiveness of Pessimism -- 9 Wagner and the Transcendence of Politics -- 10 L'Envers des destinées -- 11 Manifest Artifice -- 12 Comments on Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss by Paul Robinson -- 13 The Marriage and the Flute -- 14 ˇ Janácek's Modernism: Doing Less with More in Music and Philosophy -- 15 Authenticity and Re-creation: Musicology, Performance and Production -- 16 Naïve and Sentimental Opera Lovers -- Acknowledgments -- Index of Names and Works.
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Intro -- Contents -- Editorial Preface by Patricia Williams -- Introduction by Michael Tanner -- 1 The Nature of Opera: Entry for The New Grove Dictionary of Opera -- 2 Mozart's Comedies and the Sense of an Ending -- 3 Mozart's Figaro -- 4 Don Giovanni as an Idea -- 5 Passion and Cynicism -- 6 Rather Red than Black -- 7 Tristan and Time -- 8 The Elusiveness of Pessimism -- 9 Wagner and the Transcendence of Politics -- 10 L'Envers des destinées -- 11 Manifest Artifice -- 12 Comments on Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss by Paul Robinson -- 13 The Marriage and the Flute -- 14 ˇ Janácek's Modernism: Doing Less with More in Music and Philosophy -- 15 Authenticity and Re-creation: Musicology, Performance and Production -- 16 Naïve and Sentimental Opera Lovers -- Acknowledgments -- Index of Names and Works.

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