Download or read book Ormisda drama altered from Apostolo Zeno etc Ormisda an Opera etc Additional Songs to the Opera of Ormisda both in Italian and English Ital Eng Few MS notes written by King of Persia HORMISDAS IV. and published by . This book was released on 1730 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Handel and Italian Opera written by Reinhard Strohm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinhard Strohm examines the relationship between Handel's great operas and the earlier European Baroque tradition.

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Download or read book The Decameron Selected Tales written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition presents 33 of the 100 tales, with at least two from each of the ten days of storytelling. Boccaccio’s general introduction and conclusion to the work are also included, as are the introduction and conclusion to the first day; the reader is thus provided with a real sense of the Decameron’s framing narrative. Extensive explanatory notes are provided, and the volume is prefaced by a concise but wide-ranging introduction to Boccaccio’s life and times, as well as to the Decameron itself. A unique selection of contextual materials concludes the volume.

Download or read book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 written by Library of Congress. Music Division and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Collectio Avellana and Its Revivals written by Rita Lizzi Testa and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collectio Avellana (CA) has an extraordinary richness and variety of content. Imperial rescripts, reports of urban prefects, letters of bishops, and exchanges of letters between popes and emperors, some of which only this compilation preserves, constitute an exceptional documentary collection for researchers of various sectors of antiquity. This volume is the first publication to reconstruct the history of this compilation through the fascinating questions that it poses to the scholar. There are essays on its general structure, and on some of the most singular texts preserved therein. Other papers offer a comparison between this compilation and the other canonical collections compiled in Italy between the fourth and sixth centuries, as well as between the CA and other contemporary literary products. Adopting a new approach, some contributions also ascertain who could physically have access to the materials that were collected in the CA, and where the compiler could find them. All these fresh studies have led to new hypotheses regarding the period in which the collection, or at least some of its parts, took shape and the personality of its author.

Download or read book The Decameron Including Forty of Its Hundred Novels written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Opera Remade 1700 750 written by Charles Dill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work. Recent research on this period has been especially fruitful, showing renewed interest in how opera operated within its local cultures, what audience members felt was at stake in opera performances, who the people-composers and performers-were who made opera possible. The essays for this volume capture the principal themes of current research: the "idea" of opera, opera criticism, the people of opera, and the emerging technologies of opera.

Download or read book Operatic Pasticcios in 18th Century Europe written by Berthold Over and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Early Modern times, techniques of assembling, compiling and arranging pre-existing material were part of the established working methods in many arts. In the world of 18th-century opera, such practices ensured that operas could become a commercial success because the substitution or compilation of arias fitting the singer's abilities proved the best recipe for fulfilling the expectations of audiences. Known as »pasticcios« since the 18th-century, these operas have long been considered inferior patchwork. The volume collects essays that reconsider the pasticcio, contextualize it, define its preconditions, look at its material aspects and uncover its aesthetical principles.

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Download or read book Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2004 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day.

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Download or read book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 Author list composer list and aria index written by Library of Congress. Music Division and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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