A short history of opera / Donald Jay Grout and Hermine Weigel Williams.

"The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre'...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Authors:	Grout, Donald Jay (Author), Williams, Hermine Weigel (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English German
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]
Edition:	4th ed.
Series:	Classical music reference library.
Subjects:	Opera. Opera Biographies