Music and Theatre

Contents

• List of illustrations
• Preface
• 1. Winton Dean Philip Radcliffe
• 2. Political allegory in late-seventeenth-century English opera Curtis A. Price
• 3. Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus: a 'serenata a tre voci'? Brian Trowell
• 4. George I's venetian palace and theatre boxes in the 1720s Colin Timms
• 5. Vivaldi's and Handel's settings of Giustino Reinhard Strohm
• 6. Handel and Charles Jennens's Italian opera manuscripts John H. Roberts
• 7. Handel, Jennens and Saul: aspects of a collaboration Anthony Hicks
• 8. 'L'art dramatico-musical': an essay David Charlton
• 9. Mendelssohn's operas John Warrack
• 10. Wagnerian tendencies in Italian opera Julian Budden
• 11. The cathartic slow waltz and other finale conventions in Janacek's operas John Tyrrell
• 12. Grimes and Lucretia Philip Brett
• 13. A bibliography of the writings of Winton Dean Stephen Dean.