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Although opera figured importantly in the French quarrel of the Ancients versus the Moderns and in the English discussions of heroic tragedy, it was in Germany that its role in the development of criticism and aesthetics was most pronounced. Beginning with this observation, Gloria Flaherty tries to show how, from its very inception and through most

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This reference lists operas released as motion pictures. It covers theatrical feature films on 35mm film, educational films on 16mm film and videorecordings, including the VHS videotape format and optical video laser disc. Citations to reviews are included from over 22 sources.

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Ottenberg synthesizes material from a variety of sources--annals, memoirs, and scholarly sources--and, with them, weaves a coherent narrative of what was performed where, by whom, and what developments took place. the book casts new light on opera in America--its variety, popularity, and appeal to changing audiences throughout the century.

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This companion volume to Opera Mediagraphy: Video Recordings and Motion Pictures (Greenwood, 1993) indexes opera singers on video and film in concert, recital, and non-operatic feature film and includes VHS videotape, optical video laser disc, CD-ROM, and DVD recordings.

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Covers in detail more than 2,900 English-texted works and includes masques, ballad operas, operattas, musical theater, as well as the standard operatic fare.

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Griffel has prepared a valuable guide to German opera that can be used profitably by both scholars and amateur devotees of opera.

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A list, with critical notes, of the best recordings of orchestral music.

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Presenting detailed bibliographic information on all aspects of orchestration, instrumentation, and musical arranging with the broadest possible historical and stylistic palette, this work includes over 1,200 citations.

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This reference work catalogs music for organ and harpsichord written by more than 700 women composers from 40 countries. Compiler Adel Heinrich has expanded the organ and harpsichord repertoire to include choir and instruments accompanying organ and harpsichord.

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After the Mass Ordinary, the Magnificat was the liturgical text most frequently set by Renaissance composers, and Orlando di Lasso's 101 polyphonic settings form the largest and most varied repertory of Magnificats in the history of European music. In the first detailed investigation of this repertory, David Crook focuses on the forty parody or imi

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During World War I, he captured the public imagination and provided audiences with escapist musicals set in fictional orients.

Oscar Asche excelled in many theatre genres, including musical comedy, pantomime, music hall, melodrama, and Shakespeare.

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English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.

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The essays offer an examination of issues of the musical experience, research in perception and brain functions, the design of computer-based neural networks that emulate human musical activities, investigations into the psychological make-up of artists, and a perspective on how computers are used in many different areas of music.

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With its extensive treatment of his life and career, this book will help to bring Luening's important compositions and his contributions to American music to the attention of a much wider audience.

Ralph Hartsock divides Luening's work into four main sections, each covering a specific aspect of Luening's career.

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The story of how record companies gained ownership of sound recording rights and examines the consequences of this ownership for musical creation and reception.

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The first comprehensive discography on one of Wagner's music dramas, this volume lists all complete performance recordings, all major selections recorded, and hundreds of individually-recorded excerpts, both vocal, and instrumental, from the earliest acoustic recordings to recent laser discs.