A History of Opera: Milestones and Metamorphoses (Opera Classics Library Series) By Burton D. Fisher
2002 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 1930841817 | PDF | 3 MB
2002 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 1930841817 | PDF | 3 MB
A comprehensive history of opera that traces each milestone in opera history from Monteverdi to Gluck to Weber through to modern times and Glass and Heggie. All periods are extensively analyzed: Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Bel Canto, Opera Buffa, German Romanticism, Wagner and Music drama, Verismo, plus analyses of the Tristan Chord, atonalism, minimalism, et al.