How to listen to and understand opera /
"The history of opera is traced from its beginning in the early 17th century to around 1924"--Teaching Co. Web site.
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| Format: | CD Audio Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
[2001]
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| Series: | Great courses (Compact disc)
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. lecture 1-2. Introduction and words and music ; lecture 3-4. A brief history of vocal expression in music ; lecture 5-8. The invention of opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo
- pt. II. lecture 9-12. The growth of opera, the development of Italian opera seria, and Mozart's Idomeneo ; lecture 13-16. The rise of opera buffa and Mozart's the Marriage of Figaro
- pt. III. lecture 17-18. The bel canto style and Rossini's the Barber of Seville ; lecture 19-22. Verdi and Otello ; lecture 23-24. French opera
- pt. IV. lecture 25. German opera comes of age
- lecture 26-27. Richard Wagner and Tristan und Isolde
- lecture 28. Late Romantic German opera : Richard Strauss and Salome
- lecture 29-30. Russian opera
- lecture 31-32. Verismo, Puccini, and Tosca.