A Short History of Opera

(Fourth Edition)

编者: Donald Jay Grout, Hermine Weigel Williams
出版社： Cambridge University Press
出版时间：2003.8.15
ISBN号：978-0-231-11958-0
页数： 1030页
商品大小： 6.6 x 2.4 x 9.5 inches
索书号：J616.9/G3143
所在库室：锦江校区教参阅览室

内容简介：
When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have.
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.
A Short History of Opera examines not only the standard performance repertoire, but also works considered important for the genre's development. Its expanded scope investigates opera from Eastern European countries and Finland. The section on twentieth-century opera has been reorganized around national operatic traditions including a chapter devoted solely to opera in the United States, which incorporates material on the American musical and ties between classical opera and popular musical theater. A separate section on Chinese opera is also included.
With an extensive multilanguage bibliography, more than one hundred musical examples, and stage illustrations, this authoritative one-volume survey will be invaluable to students and serious opera buffs. New fans will also find it highly accessible and informative. Extremely thorough in its coverage, A Short History of Opera is now more than ever the book to turn to for anyone who wants to know about the history of this art form.
著者简介：
Donald Jay Grout (September 28, 1902 – March 9, 1987) was an American musicologist.
Grout attended Syracuse University and graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1923. He took his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1939. He taught at Harvard from 1936 to 1942, at the University of Texas from 1942 to 1945 and at Cornell University until 1970.
Early in his career, Grout's main body of research was in opera. After 1960 he became more interested in philosophies of music history, due in large part to his publication of a general music history textbook, A History of Western Music. This work, which has gone through seven editions as of 2008 and whose later editions were co-written by Claude Palisca and then J. Peter Burkholder after Grout's death, was the foremost English-language general history of music used in colleges and universities in the late twentieth century.
Grout also performed as a pianist and organist up until the early 1950s. He served as editor of JAMS from 1948 to 1951, and was president of the American Musicological Society (1952–54, 1960–62) and the International Musicological Society (1961–64).
Hermine Weigel Williams is Scholar-in -residence at Hamilton College.
编辑推荐：
Williams has made some wonderful additions and alterations to this book, bringing it up to date with the latest research. Grout's has always been the strongest and most complete of the English language opera histories and now it is even better.
(John Little, James Madison University)
This new enhanced fourth version is... greatly expanded from the original. Sections have been reorganized, the bibliography has been enlarged, footnotes are longer to include updated material and long sections on the twentieth century have been added. It is much easier to read, as composer's names, countries, topics, etc. are now highlighted in bold capital letters.
(Thomas A. Brown, DePaul University)