Music and Theatre: Essays in Honour of Winton DeanNigel Fortune Cambridge University Press, 17. veebr 2005 - 408 pages This volume of eleven essays, compiled as a tribute to Winton Dean on his seventieth birthday, focuses on that area which has absorbed Winton Dean's interest throughout his distinguished career: opera and other theatre music. The first half of the book covers the period from the late seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth. The second half of the book ranges over later opera: operacomique; Mendelssohn's operas; the influence of Wagner; the finales of Janácek's operas; and Britten's first two major operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia. |
Contents
a serenata a tre voci? | 31 |
George Is Venetian palace and theatre boxes in the 1720s | 95 |
Vivaldis and Handels settings of Giustino | 131 |
Handel and Charles Jennenss Italian opera manuscripts | 159 |
aspects of a collaboration | 203 |
an essay | 229 |
Mendelssohns operas | 263 |
Wagnerian tendencies in Italian opera | 299 |
The cathartic slow waltz and other finale conventions | 333 |
Grimes and Lucretia | 353 |
A bibliography of the writings of Winton Dean | 367 |
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