Opera

Stallings, Bonnie L. “Diagetic Music in the Operas of Benjamin Britten: The Case of Peter Grimes.” Ph.D. diss., U. of Californi ...

Francesca Caccini (1587–ca.1640) Caccini, Francesca. La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina. Ed. Doris Silbert Smith. S ...

examined, with passing attention to his operatic work (he was primarily a writer of oratorios). Footnoted, with bibliography but ...

Alfredo Catalani (1854–1893) Gatti, Carlo. Alfredo Catalani, la vita e le opere. Milan: Garzanti, 1953. 250p. ML410 .C37 G3. A ...

Contrasts serious and comic arias: they differ in musical and textual struc- tures. The comic has sectional contrast “based on t ...

of librettist Cicognini, who “concocted this new drammafrom various and diverse ingredients.” The result was a “romantic comedy ...

Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956) Delmas, Marc. Gustave Charpentier et le lyrisme française.Paris: Delagrave, 177p. ML410 .C5 D4. ...

operas, extensive genesis and reception studies, with program notes. Sauland David et Jonathasare especially well treated. Notes ...

motifs, seeking to explain “the overpowering effect of one sublime natural and moral event.” Lodoïska Pencak, William. “Cherubi ...

Johnson, Jennifer Elizabeth. “Domenico Cimarosa (1749–1801).” Ph.D. diss., U. of Wales, 1976. 3v. Includes a chronology of work ...

has genesis and program notes, p.469–478; The Second Hurricaneis covered on p.303–310. Backnotes, strong bibliography of about 1 ...

tion. Cui wrote his own, anonymous, review: that one was favorable. The study of that opera takes up most of the article, but th ...

writing. Detailed critical reception of the works. Bibliography of about 50 items, presenting a useful guide to the literature; ...

Claude Debussy (1862–1918) Bibliographies and Guides to Resources Briscoe, James R. Claude Debussy: A Guide to Research. Garlan ...

A close technical study of Debussy’s idiom, drawing on set theory and Schenkerian methods. Pitch-class analysis, drawing on Alle ...

sizing that “Debussy is Wagnerian in a unique way.” Musical examples display the relationships. No bibliography or index. Youen ...

Sharp, Stuart Walter. “The Twilight of French opéra lyrique,1880–1900.” D.M.A. diss., U. of Kentucky, 1975. “Best English work ...

Karl Ditters Von Dittersdorf (1739–1799) Die Liebe in Narrenhausis in GO,v.15. Riedinger, Lothar. “Karl von Dittersdorf als Ope ...

Bibliographies and Guides to Resources Sacchiero, Valerio. “Contributo ad un catalogo donizettiano.” In Atti(#764), v.2, 835–94 ...

Letters and Documents Zavadini, Guido. Donizetti: Vita, musiche, epistolario.Bergamo: Istituto Ital- iano d’Arti Grafiche, 1948 ...