Opera in the British Isles, 1875-1918 / by Rodmell, Paul, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions

Table of Contents: “…Prologue--Opera in the British Isles in 1875 -- Opera in London 1876-96 -- Opera in London 1897-1918 -- Opera in the Provinces -- The operatic problem -- Operas by British and Irish composers premiered 1875-1918 -- Epilogue--Opera in the British Isles in 1918.…”
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American musical traditions / by Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings

Table of Contents: “…African American music -- v. 3. British Isles music -- v. 4. European American music -- v. 5 Latino and Asian American music.…”

Listening to art song : an introduction / by Olson, Margaret, 1971-, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to song -- The development of art song -- The elements of song -- How to listen to song -- Italian song -- German lieder -- French mélodies -- Songs of the British Isles -- American songs : part one -- American songs : part two.…”
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Early keyboard instruments; from their beginnings to the year 1820, by James, Philip Brutton, 1901-

Table of Contents: “…--Appendix: A list of makers and sellers of keyboard instruments (excluding the organ) working in the British Isles up to the year 1820, including resident foreigners.…”

The persistence of voice : instrumental music and romantic orality / by Neubauer, John, 1933-2015, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…-- "Write as You Speak" -- in Serbian -- Contrafacts from the British Isles -- Vernacular Operas -- Epilogue.…”
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Tenor : history of a voice / by Potter, John (Tenor)

Table of Contents: “…The prehistory of the voice -- Handel, Mozart and the tenor-castrato connection -- Nourrit, Duprez and the tenorino d'hier -- The tenor as artist -- Caruso and the Italian succession -- The romantic tenor hero -- Splendid isolationists? : the British Isles in the twentieth century -- France and the decline of linguistic lyricism -- Russia and the preservation of lost traditions -- The twentieth-century Heldentenor -- Post-war losses and gains -- Notes --Tenorography -- Audio, video and website sources -- Select bibliography -- Index.…”
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A History of Western Choral Music, Volume 2. by Alwes, Chester L., Oxford Scholarship Online

Table of Contents: “…The American Experience; 12. The British Isles; 13. The New Simplicities; Notes; Bibliography…”
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Rhythms of labour : music at work in Britain / by Korczynski, Marek, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…From work song to singing at work -- 3. Hearing the British Isles singing -- 4. Fancy and function -- 5.Community -- 6. …”
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A short history of opera / by Grout, Donald Jay, Williams, Hermine Weigel

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The lyric theater of the Greeks -- Medieval dramatic music -- The immediate forerunners of opera -- The beginnings : opera in Florence and Mantua -- Other early seventeenth-century Italian court operas, including the first comic operas in Florence and Rome -- Italian opera in the later seventeenth century in Italy -- Seventeenth-century Italian opera in German-speaking lands -- Early German opera -- Opera in France from Lully to Charpentier -- Opera in England -- Masters of the early eighteenth century -- Opera seria : general characteristics -- Opera seria : the composers -- The operas of Gluck -- The comic opera of the eighteenth century -- The operas of Mozart and his Viennese contemporaries -- The turn of the [nineteenth] century -- Grand opera -- Opéra comique, operetta, and lyric opera -- Italian opera of the primo ottacento : Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, and their contemporaries -- The romantic opera in Germany -- The operas of Wagner -- The later nineteenth century : France, Italy, Germany, and Austria -- National traditions of opera -- Introduction [to opera of the twentieth century] ; Opera in France and Italy -- Opera in the German-speaking countries -- National opera in Russia and neighboring countries; central and eastern Europe; Greece and Turkey; the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland; Spain, Portugal, and Latin America -- Opera in the British Isles, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand -- Opera in the United States -- Appendix : Chinese opera (Xiqu).…”
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A pioneer songster : texts from the Stevens-Douglass manuscript of Western New York, 1841-1856 /

Table of Contents: “…SONGS AND BALLADS FROM THE BRITISH ISLES; A. Child Ballads; 1. The Bishop of Canterbury (45); 2. …”
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