Roll Over Rock: A Study of Music in Contemporary CultureStainer & Bell, 1981 - 175 pages |
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... opera was transferred from nobles to people in 1637 , with the opening of the Teatro di San Cassino in Venice . By the end of the century there were no fewer than eleven opera theatres in Venice itself and the idea had caught on like ...
... opera was transferred from nobles to people in 1637 , with the opening of the Teatro di San Cassino in Venice . By the end of the century there were no fewer than eleven opera theatres in Venice itself and the idea had caught on like ...
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... opera house an emporium for social ostentation , the same was no less true for musical ostentation . The fashion for composing operas on classical mythology persisted at least until the 1750s , by which time there was presumably little ...
... opera house an emporium for social ostentation , the same was no less true for musical ostentation . The fashion for composing operas on classical mythology persisted at least until the 1750s , by which time there was presumably little ...
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... opera.8 ( 1753 ) Although Rousseau considered that the present state of the arts was of little use in any form , he had just achieved some notoriety with his own opera Le Devin du Village , and wrote : The Italians pretend that our ...
... opera.8 ( 1753 ) Although Rousseau considered that the present state of the arts was of little use in any form , he had just achieved some notoriety with his own opera Le Devin du Village , and wrote : The Italians pretend that our ...
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The Path to Elitism | 21 |
The Path to Chauvinism | 32 |
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