Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre

by Ellen Rosand

Book Overview

Ellen Rosand shows how opera, born of courtly entertainment, took root in the special social and economic environment of seventeenth-century Venice and there developed the stylistic and aesthetic characteristics we recognize as opera today. With ninety-one music examples, most of them complete pieces nowhere else in print, and enlivened by twenty-eight illustrations, this landmark study will be essential for all students of opera, amateur and professional,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520254260
• ISBN13: 9780520254268
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 710 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.1" x 9.8"