(Dis)embodying myths in Ancien Régime opera : multidisciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Ketterer -- Envoicing the divine : oracles in lyric and spoken drama in seventeenth-century France / Geoffrey Burgess -- Addressing the divine : the 'numinous' accompagnato in opera seria / Bruno Forment -- Iphigenia's curious Menange à trois in myth, drama, and opera / Reinhard Strohm -- Spectatorship and involvement in Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride / Bram van Oostveldt.…”
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Coquettes, wives, and widows : gender politics in French baroque opera and theater / by Ray, Marcie

Subjects: “…Opera France 18th century.…”
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Music in the London theatre from Purcell to Handel /

Table of Contents: “…Purcell's "scurvy" poets / Roger Savage -- Opera as literature and the triumph of music / Martin Adams -- The British enchanters and George Granville's theory of opera / Wolfgang Hirschmann -- Lost chances: obstacles to English opera for Purcell and Handel / Jeffrey Barnouw -- Alexander's feast, or The power of perseverance: Dryden's plan for English opera and its near-fulfilment in a Handel ode / Andrew Pinnock and Bruce Wood -- Ombra mai fu: shades of Greece and Rome in the librettos for Handel's London operas / Peter Brown -- Handel and the uses of antiquity / Reinhard Strohm -- From Metastasio's Alessandro to Handel's Poro: a change of dramatic emphasis / Graham Cummings -- Deidamia as an "Heroi-comi-pastoral" opera / Sarah McCleave -- Seventeenth-century literary classics as eighteenth-century libretto sources: Congreve, Dryden and Milton in the 1730s and 1740s / Matthew Gardner -- "In this ballance seek a character": the role of "il moderato" in L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato / Ruth Smith -- "Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures": glancing and gazing spectatorship in Handel's L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato / Matthew Badham -- Accompanied recitative and characterisation in Handel's oratorios / Liam Gorry -- Handel, Charles Jennens and the advent of scriptural oratorio / John H. …”
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Opera and the political imaginary in old regime France / by Bloechl, Olivia Ashley

Table of Contents: “…A Theater of Precarity; Appendix. Operas and Ballets Cited; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Dance and drama in French baroque opera : a history / by Harris-Warrick, Rebecca

Table of Contents: “…6 The Lighter Side of LullyLes Fêtes de l'Amour et de Bacchus; Cadmus et Hermione, Alceste, and Thésée; Le Carnaval; Psyché; Le Triomphe de l'Amour; Acis et Galatée; Part II The Rival Muses in the Age of Campra; 7 The Muses Take the Stage; Genre Terminology; Sources; Reading the Cast Lists in Librettos; 8 Thalie, Muse of Comedy; The Decade after Lully; "Italy" Comes to the Opéra; L'Europe galante (1697); Les Fêtes vénitiennes (1710); 9 Thalie Visits the Fairs; Appropriated Frames; Operatic Parodies; Dancing Master Scenes; The Masked Ball on Stage; Comic Simultaneity; "Fragments" as a Genre…”
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The Italian Opera Libretto and Dubrovnik Theatre : (17th and 18th Century) / by Franić Tomić, Viktoria

Subjects: “…Opera Italy Influence.…”
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The marqués, the divas, and the castrati : Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán and opera in the early modern Spanish orbit / by Stein, Louise K.

Table of Contents: “…Inventing Hispanic Opera : Opera as Epithalamium -- Negotiating Operatic Culture in Rome 1677-82 -- Naples, Opera, and Spanish Viceroys to 1683 -- Carpio and the Integration of Opera in Public Life, Naples 1683-87 -- An Operatic Legacy in the Americas.…”
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The Baroque Libretto : Italian operas and oratorios in the thomas fisher library, u of t / by Pietropaolo, Domenico, Parker, Mary Ann

Table of Contents: “…The Collection -- The Opera Libretty -- The Music -- Dance in Italian Opera -- The Oratorio.…”
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Libretti vom "Mittelalter" : Entdeckungen von Historie in der (nord)deutschen und europaischen Oper um 1700 / by Seebald, Christian

Subjects: “…History in opera.…”
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The beggar's 'children' : how John Gay changed the course of England's musical theatre / by Atkins, Madeline Smith, 1932-

Subjects: “…Gay, John, 1685-1732. Beggar's opera.…”
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Aesthetics of opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785 / by Thomas, Downing A.

Table of Contents: “…pt. I. French opera in the shadow of tragedy -- 1. Song as performance and the emergence of French opera -- 2. …”

The Baroque libretto : Italian operas and oratorios in the Thomas Fisher Library at the University of Toronto / by Pietropaolo, Domenico, 1949-, Parker, Mary Ann, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The Collection -- The Opera Libretty -- The Music -- Dance in Italian Opera -- The Oratorio.…”
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Music and the city : musical cultures and urban societies in the southern Netherlands and beyond, c. 1650-1800 /

Table of Contents: “…The urban stage--staging the city : "Les operas etaient en vogue." Opera in a city in crisis : Antwerp between 1682 and 1794 /…”
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Musicians' mobilities and music migrations in early modern Europe : biographical patterns and cultural exchanges /

Table of Contents: “…Italian Opera Singers in Moravian Sources c. 1720-1740 (Part I) /…”
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Musicians' Mobilities and Music Migrations in Early Modern Europe : Biographical Patterns and Cultural Exchanges. by Gesa zur Nieden; Berthold Over

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Music of the Bach family : an anthology /

Table of Contents: “…Three instrumental pieces (from the opera Amadis des Gaules) /…”

Before the baton : musical direction and conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain / by Holman, Peter, 1946-

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Musicians' Mobilities and Music Migrations in Early Modern Europe. by Nieden, Gesa zur

Table of Contents: “…The Example of Filippo Balatri / Matthias Schnettger -- Soloists of the Opera Productions in Brno, Holesov, Kromeriz and Vyskov. …”
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The allure of the ancient : receptions of the ancient Middle East, ca. 1600-1800 /

Table of Contents: “…Middleton -- Reading the East : from the Enlightenment to the utopic projects of the revolutionary architects / Elisa Boeri -- Freemasons and Platonism : the allure of Egypt between big ideas and small details / Florian Ebeling -- Zoraster's French moment / Maryam Sanjabi -- Ancient and modern : citational practices and the status of ancient in Jean Terrasson's Séthos / Margaret Geoga -- Representing Egypt in French Enlightenment musical theatre : from Gherardi to the Opéra national / Mark Darlow -- From tragic hero to Creole businesswoman : Voltaire's Semiramis and her parodies in 18th-century France and Saint-Domingue / Julia Prest -- Babylonians in sixteenth-century Mexico : comparative antiquarianism in teh work of Sahagún / Felipe Rojas Silva -- Egypt and Babylon in eighteenth-century European histories of astronomy / John Steele -- What was oriental studies in early modern Europe? …”
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The lively arts of the London stage, 1675-1725 /

Table of Contents: “…6From Scaramouche to Harlequin: Dances 'in grotesque characters' on the London Stage7 Music, Magic, and Morality: Stage Reform and the Pastoral Mode; 8Madness 'Free from Vice': Musical Eroticism in the Pastoral World of The Fickle Shepherdess; 9 'Let all be husht': Songs in Praise of Anne Bracegirdle and Arabella Hunt; 10Burning and Stoic Men: Mad Rants and the Performance of Passionate Pain in the Plays of Nathaniel Lee, 1674 to 1678; 11Appreciating Bononcini's Astianatte (1727): An Italian Opera for the London Stage; Part IIIAfterpiece: Comedy, Farce, and Competition; 12 The Right to Write.…”
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