Classical music : the era of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven / by Downs, Philip G.

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Music in the classic period / by Pauly, Reinhard G.

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A treasury of early music : an anthology of masterworks of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Baroque era /

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Music in the eighteenth century / by Rice, John A.

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The Choruses in Mozart's Opere Serie and the Genre and Historical Role of the Opera Chorus. by Shrader, James A.

Table of Contents: “…Opera seria -- The opera chorus to 1800 -- Mozart's operas and their choruses.…”
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History of music in sound. Vol. 7: The symphonic outlook, 1745-1790.

Table of Contents: “…Singspiel. Opâera comique. Opera seria. Opera buffa. Church music.--[pt.2] Symphony.…”

W.A. Mozart, Idomeneo / by Rushton, Julian

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Essays on Handel and Italian opera / by Strohm, Reinhard

Table of Contents: “…Heritage: Handel's Italian journey as a European experience ; Alessandro Scarlatti and the eighteenth century ; Handel and his Italian opera texts ; Francesco Gasparini's later operas and Handel -- Operatic practice: Towards an understanding of the opera seria ; An opera autograph of Francesco Gasparini? …”

A short history of opera / by Grout, Donald Jay, Williams, Hermine Weigel

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The lyric theater of the Greeks -- Medieval dramatic music -- The immediate forerunners of opera -- The beginnings : opera in Florence and Mantua -- Other early seventeenth-century Italian court operas, including the first comic operas in Florence and Rome -- Italian opera in the later seventeenth century in Italy -- Seventeenth-century Italian opera in German-speaking lands -- Early German opera -- Opera in France from Lully to Charpentier -- Opera in England -- Masters of the early eighteenth century -- Opera seria : general characteristics -- Opera seria : the composers -- The operas of Gluck -- The comic opera of the eighteenth century -- The operas of Mozart and his Viennese contemporaries -- The turn of the [nineteenth] century -- Grand opera -- Opéra comique, operetta, and lyric opera -- Italian opera of the primo ottacento : Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, and their contemporaries -- The romantic opera in Germany -- The operas of Wagner -- The later nineteenth century : France, Italy, Germany, and Austria -- National traditions of opera -- Introduction [to opera of the twentieth century] ; Opera in France and Italy -- Opera in the German-speaking countries -- National opera in Russia and neighboring countries; central and eastern Europe; Greece and Turkey; the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland; Spain, Portugal, and Latin America -- Opera in the British Isles, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand -- Opera in the United States -- Appendix : Chinese opera (Xiqu).…”
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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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Mozart's operas : a companion / by Hunter, Mary Kathleen, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The musical anatomy of Mozart's operas -- Mozart and opera seria. Mitridate, re di Ponto ; Ascanio in Alba ; Il sogno di Scipione ; Lucio Silla ; Il re pastore ; Idomeneo ; La clemenza di Tito -- Mozart and Singspiel. …”

Demofoonte : (Mailand 1743) / by Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787

Mozart / by Rushton, Julian

Table of Contents: “…Salzburg and the grand tour : 1756-1769 -- Works by an "almost supernatural talent" -- Italy and Salzburg : 1769-1773 -- Opera seria : "fitting the clothes to the figure" -- Salzburg : 1773-1777 -- Sacred music : "I have thoroughly acquainted myself with that style since my youth" -- Mannheim and Paris : 1777-1779 -- The "classical style" : Mozart and the keyboard -- Salzburg and Munich : 1779-1781 -- Orchestral music : "the glorious effect of a symphony with flutes, oboes, and clarinets" -- Vienna : 1781-1785 -- Singspiel : "music must never offend the ear" -- "Land of the clavier": piano concertos and piano chamber music -- Vienna and Prague : 1785-1788 -- Chamber music : "the greatest composer I know" -- Opera buffa : "most important is that it must be really comic" -- The last years : 1788-1791 -- The last works : "a rich possession, but even fairer hopes" -- Aftermath: "--de morte transire ad vitam".…”

Julius Caesar in Egypt = Giulio Cesare in Egitto / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Die Opera buffa in Europa Verbreitungs- und Transformationsprozesse einer neuen Gattung (1740-1765). by Zedler, Andrea, Zedler, Andrea, Hoven, Lena van der, Knaus, Kordula

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Siren songs : representations of gender and sexuality in opera /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Mary Ann Smart -- Through voices, history / Catherine Cl⥭ent -- The absent mother in opera seria / Martha Feldman -- Staging Mozart's women / Wye Jamison Allanbrook, Mary Hunter, Gretchen A. …”

Julius Caesar in Egypt = Giulio Cesare in Egitto / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Siren songs : representations of gender and sexuality in opera /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Mary Ann Smart -- Through voices, history / Catherine Clément -- The absent mother in opera seria / Martha Feldman -- Staging Mozart's women / Wye Jamison Allanbrook, Mary Hunter, Gretchen A. …”
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Opera and drama in eighteenth-century London : the King's Theatre, Garrick and the business of performance / by Woodfield, Ian

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Hobart management -- The new managers take control -- Sacchini and the revival of opera seria -- Recruitment procedures and artistic policy -- The King's Theatre in crisis -- The recruitment of Lovattini -- The English community in Rome -- Lucrezia Agujari at the Pantheon -- Caterina Gabrielli -- Rauzzini's last season -- The King's Theatre flourishes -- The Queen of Quavers satire -- Financial management -- Opera salaries -- The sale of 1778 -- Appendices. …”
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Heavenly voices /

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