This volume of eleven essays, compiled as a tribute to Winton Dean on his seventieth birthday, focuses on that area which has absorbed Winton Dean’s interest throughout his distinguished career: opera and other theatre music. The first half of the book covers the period from the late seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth. The second half of the book ranges over later opera: operacomique; Mendelssohn’s operas; the influence of Wagner; the finales of Janácek’s operas; and Britten’s first two major operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia.
Bibliographic information
Title | Music and Theatre: Essays in Honour of Winton Dean |
Authors | Winton Dean, Nigel Fortune |
Editors | Winton Dean, Nigel Fortune |
Edition | illustrated |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2005 |
ISBN | 0521619289, 9780521619288 |
Length | 408 pages |