The Ritualization of Mormon History, and Other Essays
The Ritualization of Mormon History, and Other Essays

Author: Davis Bitton

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780252020797

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How did the Latter-day Saints of the 19th century defend their plural marriage system? What kind of poetry was written on the Mormon frontier, and what social function did it perform? In a collection intended to convey the excitement and variety of Mormon history, Bitton considers these and other issues, and demonstrates how a religious group survives and maintains its sense of identity in the face of change and adaptation to new circumstances.

Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice
Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice

Author: Ellen Rosand

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2007-10-09

Total Pages: 712

ISBN-13: 0520254260

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"In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi