Sternfeld, F. W.
Sternfeld, Frederick William
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Paperback
Edition: Pbk. Ed
280 pages
Frontispiece, Music Examples, Tables, Bibliography
Published: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0198165730
This text examines the role of poets and composers in establishing the new genre of opera in northern Italy around 1600. The accent is on the early operas of Peri and Monteverdi and their predecessors, the Intermedi.
