Massenet

Massenet

Author: Demar Irvine

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9781574670240

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(Amadeus). This superbly detailed biography examines the life of Jules Massenet (1842-1912), who was at the heart of Parisian musical life during a period of extraordinary artistic vitality.


Massenet's Thaïs

Massenet's Thaïs

Author: Burton D. Fisher

Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 1102009121

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Burton D. Fisher's extremely popular Mini Guides feature Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and an insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis of the opera.


The Rough Guide to Opera

The Rough Guide to Opera

Author: Matthew Boyden

Publisher: Rough Guides

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 756

ISBN-13: 9781858287492

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Sketches of opera composers, opera synopses, and CD reviews.


French Opera at the Fin de Siècle

French Opera at the Fin de Siècle

Author: Steven Huebner

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006-02-02

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 9780199719921

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This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven Huebner gives an accessible and colorful account of such operatic favorites as Manon and Werther by Massenet, Louise by Charpentier, and lesser-known gems such as Chabrier's Le Roi malgré lui and Chausson's Le Roi Arthus.


Reader's Guide to Music

Reader's Guide to Music

Author: Murray Steib

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-02

Total Pages: 928

ISBN-13: 1135942625

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The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).


Opera Anecdotes

Opera Anecdotes

Author: Ethan Mordden

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780195056617

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From backstage squabbles and box-office chicanery to the gallantry and glory of creation, this book of stories unveils a delightful panorama of opera lore. "An opera lover's handbook that should always be near at hand".--Schuyler G. Chapin, Columbia University.