have separate entries in this guide: on recitative (#358), on Beethoven (#495),
and on Sosarme(#998).
70.Essays Presented to Egon Wellesz. Ed. Jack Westrup. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1966. viii, 188p. ML55 .W38 W5.
Sixteen essays; seven about opera, of which four are given separate treatment
in this guide: F. W. Sternfeld on Gluck’s Orfeoand Alceste(#899), Hans F.
Redlich on Wagnerian elements in pre-Wagnerian opera (#2010), Jack
Westrup on Bizet’s La jolie fille de Perth(#587), and Gerald Abraham on Serov
(#1659).- Lee, M. Owen. First Intermissions: Twenty-One Great Operas Explored,
Explained, and Brought to Life from the Met. New York: Oxford U.P., 1995.
xv, 248p. ISBN 0-19-509225-4. MT95 .L54.
A gathering of Lee’s entertaining and insightful intermission features from the
Metropolitan radio broadcasts. Six are about Verdi, five about Wagner, three
about Richard Strauss, and two about Puccini; there is one essay each about
Mozart, Gounod, Berlioz, Offenbach, and Massenet. Index of names and
titles.
72.Essays on Opera and English Music: In Honour of Sir Jack Westrup. Ed. F. W.
Sternfeld, Nigel Fortune, and Edward Olleson. Oxford: Blackwell, 1975. x,
189p. ISBN 0-631-15890-1. ML55 .E78.
Fourteen contributions; four are treated separately in this guide: Donald Jay
Grout on Griselda(#1619), Winton Dean on Sosarme(#998), Gerald Abra-
ham on opera in Poland (#2618), and Eric Walter White on opera at Oxford
(#2728).
73.Studies in Eighteenth-Century Music: A Tribute to Karl Geiringer on His 70th
Birthday. Ed. H. C. Robbins Landon. London: Allen & Unwin, 1970. 425p.
ISBN 0-306-79519-1. ML55 .G24 S8.
Consists of 38 essays, including the following on opera (those with entry num-
bers are treated later in this guide): George J. Buelow on Johann Mattheson’s
opera Cleopatra(#1171), Winton Dean, “Vocal Embellishment in a Handel
Aria,” Edith Vogel Garrett on Georg Benda (#522), Dolores Menstell Hsu on
Weber (#2086), Emanuel Winternitz, “A Homage of Piccinni to Gluck,” and
Hellmuth Christian Wolff, “The Fairy Tale of the Neapolitan Opera” (#2530).
74.Studies in Musical Sources and Analysis: In Honor of Jan La Rue. Ed. Eugene
K. Wolf and Edward H. Roesner. Madison, Wisc.: A-R Editions, 1990. xii,
555p. ISBN 0-89579-253-2. ML55 .L217.
Of the 17 essays here, two on opera subjects have separate entries in this guide:
Martin Chusid on Don Carlos(#1873), and Ellen Rosand on L’incoronazione
di Poppea(#1233).
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