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This volume of eleven essays, compiled as a tribute to Winton Dean on his seventieth birthday, focuses on that area which has absorbed Winton Deans interest throughout his distinguished career: opera and other theatre music. The first half of the book covers the period from the late seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth. The second half of the book ranges over later opera: operacomique; Mendelssohns operas; the influence of Wagner; the finales of Janáceks operas; and Brittens first two major operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia.
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This volume of eleven essays, compiled as a tribute to Winton Dean on his seventieth birthday, focuses on that area which has absorbed Winton Deans interest throughout his distinguished career: opera and other theatre music.
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