Opera in seventeenth-century Venice the creation of a genre /
Ellen Rosand shows how opera, born of courtly entertainment, took root in the special social and economic environment of seventeenth-century Venice and there developed the stylistic and aesthetic characteristics we recognize as opera today. With ninety-one music examples, most of them complete piece...
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| Main Author: |
Rosand, Ellen. |
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EBSCOhost. |
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eBook
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| Language: |
English
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| Published: |
Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
[1991]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxii, 684 pages) : illustrations.
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