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- This product had a total of 13 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 2 2020.
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The ancient greeks combined recitation and music on stage so the earliest operas were recited verse delivered by actors accompanied by music
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The author covers a history that spans monteverdis orfeo 1607 to puccinis la boheme 1896
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These are the chapters of the book1 what is opera2 giovanni francesco busenello and claudio monteverdi3 nicola francesco haym and george frideric handel4 lorenzo da ponte and wolfgang amadeus mozart5 francesco maria piave and giuseppe verdi6 giuseppe giacosa luigi illica and giacomo puccinioperatic love stories with their seriously flawed characters and exotic settings were high poetical drama set to music
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While the music changed over time from early baroque declamation to late romantic lyricism the words were italian poetry
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The librettist was always a poet using meter rhyme and form because the words in opera are poetical not prose
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Meter rhyme and form are studied in detail for various examples from the operas including folksongs prayer songs toasts and intro songs isongs for the protagonist to introduce himherself to the audience
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At times it read like a talk to a university class or an opera club
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