A short history of opera
By: Donald Jay Grout & Hermine Weigel Williams
Contributors: Williams, Hermine Weigel
Edition: 4th ed
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1030
Subjects: Opera
Description: "When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have."

"The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [797]-896) and index