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 | | A Short History of Opera by Donald Jay Grout ISBN-10: 9780231061926 ISBN-10: 0-231-06192-7 ISBN-13: 9780231061926 ISBN-13: 978-0-231-06192-6 Hardcover 1988-04-15 Columbia University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Book Description A systematic survey, presenting the essential points in the history of opera clearly and in the proper proportion, with musical examples throughout. | ||
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Improved edition. It seems that this was the standard textbook for most university opera history courses at one time (at least it was when I took the course in the early 80's). However, it seems to have fallen out of favor because those of us who read the earlier editions and are now teaching opera history courses recall the writing to be confusing, if not outright dull. In my opinion this lastest edition, written with Hermione Weigel Williams, is an improvement, and I think the book deserves a second reading. After teaching our opera history course using another text, I returned to this one because I feel it provides a better narrative: there seems to be more of an effort to relate the various movements in opera to one another. This cause and effect relationship is helpful to the student in their attempt to retain the information, and as well as understand the significance of each operatic movement. Give it another chance! | ||