TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edwards,H.Sutherland
TI  - History of the opera: from Monteverdi to Donizetti 
SN  - 030677416X
AV  - ML1700 .E26 1977
U1  - 782.109 20
PY  - 1977///
CY  - New York
PB  - Da Capo Press
KW  - Opera
N1  - Reprint of the 2d ed., 1862, published by W. H. Allen, London; Includes index; CHAPTER I; Preface, Prelude, Prologue, Introduction, Overture,&c. - The Origin of Opera in Italy, and its introduction into Germany. - Its History in Europe; Division of the subject --; CHAPTER II; Introduction of Opera into France and England --; CHAPTER III; On the Nature of Opera, and its Merits as compared with other forms of the Drama --; CHAPTER IV; Introduction and progress of the Ballet --; CHAPTER V; Introduction of the Italian Opera into England --; CHAPTER VI; The Italian Opera under Handel --; CHAPTER VII; General view of the Opera in Europe in the Eighteenth Century, until the appearance of Gluck --; CHAPTER VIII; French Opera from Lulli to the Death of Rameau --; CHAPTER IX; Rousseau as a Critic and as a Composer of Music --; CHAPTER X; Cluck and Piccinni in Paris
ER  -