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Contents
- Preface and acknowledgments; List of abbreviations;
- Part I . The Italian Foundations:
- 1. Opera is born: the wedding of music and drama in late Renaissance Florence Barbara Russano-Hanning;
- 2. '...e poi le parole': towards a history of the libretto Tim Carter;
- 3. Opera as spectacle, opera as drama Margaret Murata;
- Part II . Society, Institutions and Production:
- 4. Opera for a paying public (Italy c. 1637-c. 1700) Beth L. Glixon;
- 5. 'Una bella voce, un bel trillo, d un bel passaggio': opera singers in seventeenth-century Italy Colleen Reardon;
- 6. Opera, gender and voice Christine Jeanneret;
- 7. Dance and ballet Rebecca Harris-Warrick;
- 8. Staging opera in the seventeenth century Roger Savage;
- Part III . National Traditions (Outside Italy):
- 9. Opera in France c. 1640-c. 1710 Laura Naudeix;
- 10. Song and declamation in French opera Jacqueline Weber;
- 11. Opera in England Amanda Eubanks Winkler;
- 12. The development of opera in German Michael Maul;
- 13. Opera in Spain and the Spanish dominions in Italy and the Americas Louise K. Stein; Bibliography; Index.