The Baroque Libretto : Italian operas and oratorios in the thomas fisher library, u of t / by Pietropaolo, Domenico, Parker, Mary Ann

Subjects: “…Librettos Bibliography Catalogs.…”
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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-

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The Italian Opera Libretto and Dubrovnik Theatre : (17th and 18th Century) / by Franić Tomić, Viktoria

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Handel's oratorios and eighteenth-century thought / by Smith, Ruth, 1947-

Subjects: “…Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Oratorios. Librettos.…”

Handel's oratorios and eighteenth-century thought / by Smith, Ruth, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Towards oratorio -- pt. II. The Patriot Libretto from the Excise Bill to the Jew Bill: Israelite Oratorios and English Politics. 8. …”
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The Classical style : an opera (of sorts) / by Stucky, Steven

Me : for bass-baritone and piano from The classical style : an opera (of sorts) / by Stucky, Steven

Catalog aria : for tenor and piano from The classical style : an opera (of sorts) / by Stucky, Steven

British opera in America : Children of the wood (1794) and Blue Beard (1811) /

Subjects: “…Operas 18th century Librettos.…”

A harlot's progress : opera in six scenes : vocal score / by Bell, Iain, 1980-

Le nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebe : (Pillnitz bei Dresden 1747) : dramma per musica in zwei Teilen / by Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787

Subjects: “…Operas Austria 18th century Librettos.…”

Alceste : version Paris 1776 = Pariser Fassung 1776 = Paris version 1776 : tragédie-opéra en trois actes = in drei Akten = in three acts / by Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787

Operatic Pasticcios in 18th-Century Europe : Contexts, Materials and Aesthetics /

Table of Contents: “…Christoph Graupner and the Use of Non-domestic Librettos in the Early 18th Century --…”
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Handel on the Stage / by Kimbell, David

Table of Contents: “…Handel and opera : a biographical survey of the circumstances -- The libretto (1) : argument : dramatis personae -- The libretto (2) : words for music -- The music (1) : mastering the medium -- The music (2) : its role in the drama -- Aspects of the performance of Handelian opera in his time and ours.…”
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Handel on the stage / by Kimbell, David R. B.

Table of Contents: “…Handel and opera : a biographical survey of the circumstances -- The libretto (1) : argument : dramatis personae -- The libretto (2) : words for music -- The music (1) : mastering the medium -- The music (2) : its role in the drama -- Aspects of the performance of Handelian opera in his time and ours.…”
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A History of the Oratorio, Vol. 3 : the Oratorio in the Classical Era. by Smither, Howard E.

Table of Contents: “…Social Contexts of the Italian Oratorio; Introduction: Terminology and Genre Definition; Italian and Latin Oratorio in Italy; Italian Oratorio Abroad; Chapter II. The Libretto and Music of the Italian Oratorio; The Libretto; The Music: General Characteristics; Chapter III. …”
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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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The Italian opera singers in Mozart's Vienna / by Link, Dorothea

Table of Contents: “…The Establishment and Management of the Italian Opera Company at the Vienna Court Theater -- Classification of Operatic Roles, Voice Types, and Singing Styles -- Casting Information in Scores and Librettos of the Operas Produced in the Italian Company, 1783-91 -- Nancy Storace : The Italian Company, 1783-84 -- Nancy Storace : The Company Stabilizes, 1784-85 -- Nancy Storace's Annus Horribilis and Celeste Coltellini, 1785-86 -- Nancy Storace's Exuberant Year, 1786-87 -- Anna Morichelli Comes and Goes, 1787-88 -- Luisa Laschi : The Year of the Three Prima Donnas, 1788-89 -- Adriana Ferrarese : Opera on a Shoestring, 1789-90 -- Adriana Ferrarese : Portents of Change, 1790-91 -- A Neapolitan Prima Donna and the End of Josephine Opera, 1791-92.…”
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The haunted tower : a comic opera, in three acts, as performed by the Old American Company. / by Cobb, James, 1756-1818

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Music in eighteenth-century England : essays in memory of Charles Cudworth /

Table of Contents: “…Zimmerman -- "Or rather our musical Shakespeare" : Charles Burney's Purcell / Richard Luckett -- Walsh's editions of Handel's opera 1-5 : the texts and their sources / Donald Burrows -- The recovery of Handel's operas / Winton Dean -- Intellectual contexts of Handel's English oratorios / Ruth Smith -- Handel's successor : notes on John Christopher Smith the younger / Alfred Mann -- The late additions to Handel's oratorios and the role of the younger Smith / Anthony Hicks -- Handel's harpsichord music : a checklist / Terence Best -- New light on the libretto of The creation / Nicholas Temperley -- The English symphony : some additions and annotations to Charles Cudworth's published studies / Jan LaRue -- Thematic index of English symphonies / Charles Cudworth and Jan LaRue -- A bibliography of the writings of Charles Cudworth / Richard Andrewes.…”