Author: Donald Jay Grout
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231119585
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 1049
Book Description
"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's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day."--Jacket.