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Introduces the concept and history of dramma per musica. The text examines the contemporary reception and environment of this operatic tradition, analyzing its social and repertorial patterns and relating it to theories concerning French spoken drama and Italian libretto reform.
In this valuable collection of essays, published to coincide with the tercentenary of Handel's birth, Reinhard Strohm examines the relationship between Handel's great operas and the earlier European Baroque tradition, focusing on the Italian school, to which they are so crucially indebted.
This is a detailed and comprehensive survey of music in the late middle ages and early Renaissance. It describes a period of dramatic expansion and transformation of the musical heritage. In narrating the history of styles, composers and works, it sketches developments in many different countries, but also discusses the 'common traditions' of musical life and practice.
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