Music and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Subtitle: A Source Book
Contributors: Wolfgang Freis (Translator); Lisa Gasbarrone (Translator); Michael Louis Leone (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: August 15, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780226267319
Subjects: Cultural studies; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Western music: periods & styles; Music Of The 18th Century; Music/Songbooks; Music; Europe; History & Criticism - General; Music / History & Criticism; 18th century; History and criticism; Sources
First sentence: IT IS SYMPTOMATIC THAT Italian literati, like the French, devoted some attention to music and to opera in their works on tragedy.