Prologue to the opera / by Dryden, John, 1631-1700

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(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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Coquettes, wives, and widows : gender politics in French baroque opera and theater / by Ray, Marcie

Subjects: “…Opera France 18th century.…”
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Monteverdi's last operas : a Venetian trilogy / by Rosand, Ellen

Subjects: “…Monteverdi, Claudio, 1567-1643. Operas.…”
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French Baroque opera : a reader / by Wood, Caroline

Subjects: “…Opera France 17th century Sources.…”

Inventing the business of opera : the impresario and his world in seventeenth-century Venice / by Glixon, Beth Lise, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The business of opera. Introduction to the business of opera in seventeenth-century Venice : people and finances ;…”

Opera's first master : the musical dramas of Claudio Monteverdi / by Ringer, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Living with Monteverdi's operas -- Monteverdi and the path to L'Orfeo : polyphony, madrigal, and Monteverdi's early years -- "Lend me a castrato" : opera comes to Mantua -- "So that memory of his glory may live" : L'Orfeo -- The first lost opera and other works for Mantua -- "Contraries to move the mind" : Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and the journey toward the Venetian operas -- "Tempests are kind, and salt waves fresh in love" : Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria -- "Nothing human is alien to me" : L'incoronazione di Poppea.…”

Monteverdi's last operas : a Venetian trilogy / by Rosand, Ellen

Subjects: “…Monteverdi, Claudio, 1567-1643. Operas.…”

Emblems of eloquence : opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / by Heller, Wendy Beth

Table of Contents: “…The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- "Disprezzata regina" : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure -- Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan.…”

Emblems of eloquence : opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / by Heller, Wendy, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- 'Disprezzata regina' : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure -- Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan.…”
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Dance and drama in French baroque opera : a history / by Harris-Warrick, Rebecca

Subjects: “…Dance in opera History 17th 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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Music in the London theatre from Purcell to Handel /

Subjects: “…Opera England 17th century.…”
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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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Opera in seventeenth-century Venice : the creation of a genre / by Rosand, Ellen

Subjects: “…Opera Italy Venice 17th century.…”
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Opera in seventeenth-century Venice : the creation of a genre / by Rosand, Ellen

Table of Contents: “…Far recitare un'opera a Venezia : origins and sources. Venetian foundations ; Monteverdi in the wings ; Orfeo and Poppea ; The documents of a history -- Dramma per musica : the question of genre. …”
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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 English opera, or, The vocal musick in Psyche : with the instrumental therein intermix'd : to which is adjoyned the instrumental musick in The tempest / by Locke, Matthew, 1621 or 2-1677

Subjects: “…Operas 17th century Scores.…”
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Hugonis Grotii Opera omnia theologica : in tres tomos divisa : ante quidem per partes, nunc autem conjunctim & accuratius edita. by Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645

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