A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-century Music: Edited by Stewart CarterStewart Carter This is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. |
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... Opera Production for Those Not Normally Involved in Opera Production James Middleton " From Aurora's spicy bed / Phœbus rears his glorious head . . . ” Nahum Tate , Dido and Æneas , prologue To many well - informed people in the English ...
... Opera Production for Those Not Normally Involved in Opera Production James Middleton " From Aurora's spicy bed / Phœbus rears his glorious head . . . ” Nahum Tate , Dido and Æneas , prologue To many well - informed people in the English ...
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... opera " encompasses a wide variety of types of music theater , from the earliest Florentine operas through the Venetian operas written for the public stage , Roman opera , and Neapolitan opera , to the French tragédie lyrique , English ...
... opera " encompasses a wide variety of types of music theater , from the earliest Florentine operas through the Venetian operas written for the public stage , Roman opera , and Neapolitan opera , to the French tragédie lyrique , English ...
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... operas ( particularly Italian ones ) existed as inviolable texts the way a late Wagner opera does : they were cut , rearranged , and otherwise messed with in ways that we would not dare to . So go ahead and do what you think your ...
... operas ( particularly Italian ones ) existed as inviolable texts the way a late Wagner opera does : they were cut , rearranged , and otherwise messed with in ways that we would not dare to . So go ahead and do what you think your ...
Contents
Bel canto Style | 30 |
ANNE HARRINGTON | 43 |
GARY TOWNE Vocal Ensembles | 54 |
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