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List of plates | |
Library abbreviations | |
Introduction Thomas Bauman | |
Prologue | |
Pastoral and musical magic in the birth of opera | |
Opera and the Visual Arts | |
Moralizing at the tomb: Poussin's Arcadian shepherds in eighteenth-century England and Germany | |
Dr Burney, the bear, and the knight: E. F. Burney's Amateurs of Tye-Wig Music | |
New light(s) on Weber's Wolf's Glen scene | |
Serious Opera | |
Sinfonia and drama in early eighteenth-century opera seria | |
The dramatic role of the chorus in French opera: evidence for the use of gesture, 1670-1770 | |
Transforming opera seria: Verazi's innovations and their impact on opera in Italy | |
Handel and Gluck | |
Handel's Serse | |
The 'sweet song' in Demofoonte: a Gluck borrowing from Handel | |
ZTphire et Flore: a 'galant' early ballet | |
Gluck's Iphigenia operas: sources and strategies | |
Concerning Mozart | |
The 'storm' music of Beaumarchais' Barbier de STville | |
On Don Giovanni, No. 2 Joseph Kerman | |
Leopold II, Mozart, and the return to a Golden Age | |
Epilogue | |
From fairy tale to opera in four moves (not so simple) | |
Index | |
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