Grout, D: Short History of Opera

Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Preface to the Fourth Edition
• Introduction
• Part 1 Music and Drama to the End of the Sixteenth Century 1 The Lyric Theater of the Greeks 2 Medieval Dramatic Music 3 The Immediate Forerunners of Opera
• Part 2 The Seventeenth Century 4 The Beginnings: Opera in Florence and Mantua 5 Other Early Seventeenth-Century Italian Court Operas, Including the First Comic Operas in Florence and Rome 6 Italian Opera in the Later Seventeenth Century in Italy 7 Sevent
• Part 3 The Eighteenth Century 11 Masters of the Early Eighteenth Century 12 Opera Seria: General Characteristics 13 Opera Seria: The Composers 14 The Operas of Gluck 15 The Comic Opera of the Eighteenth Century 16 The Operas of Mozart and His Viennese Co
• Part 4 The Nineteenth Century 17 The Turn of the Century 18 Grand Opera 19 Opera Comique, Operetta, and Lyric Opera 20 Italian Opera of the Primo Ottocento: Rossini, DOnizetti, Verdi, and Their Contemporaries 21 The Romantic Opera in Germany 22 The Opera
• Part 5 Other National Traditions of Opera from the Seventeenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries 24 National Traditions of Opera
• Part 6 The Twentieth Century 25 Introduction/Opera in France and Italy 26 Opera in the German-Speaking Countries 27 National Opera in Russia and Neighboring COuntries; Central and Eastern Europe; Greece and Turkey; the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Fi
• Appendix Chinese Opera (Xiqu) List of Abbreviations
• Bibliography Sources and Translations of Musical Examples
• Index