Opera / [by] Edward J. Dent ; with nineteen illustrations from photographs and seventeen original decorations in the text by Kay Ambrose.
| Author/creator | Dent, Edward J. |
| Other author | Ambrose, Kay, illustrator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York : Penguin Books Limited, [1940] |
| Description | 192 pages, 8 leaves of plates : illustrations (including portrait, facsimiles) ; 18 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | A "Pelican special" |
| Contents | Preface -- Introduction -- The beginnings of opera -- Monteverdi -- Venetian opera -- Lully and Rameau -- Comic opera -- Gluck -- Beginnings of German opera -- Mozart -- Opera under the French revolution -- The beginnings of Romantic opera -- Beethoven -- Rossini -- Weber -- Wagner -- Verdi -- Gounod -- Puccini -- The Russians -- The musical conventions of opera -- Recitative and air -- Ensembles and finales -- Popular songs -- Canons -- The orchestra -- Librettos -- Scenery -- Acting -- Modern opera -- Richard Strauss -- Debussy -- Busoni -- Hindemith -- Kurt Weill -- Pizzetti -- Opera in England. The beginnings -- Locke -- Purcell -- Opera in England. Handel -- The Beggar's Opera -- Balfe and Wallace -- Covent Garden and Sadler's Wells -- Opera in England. The idealists -- Rutland Boughton -- Amateur opera -- English repertory -- Ethel Smyth and Vaughan Williams. |
| General note | First published 1940. |
| General note | Illustrated title pages: black/white; two commedia dell'arte characters on stage. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: pages 191-192. |
| LCCN | a 41000461 |