Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface to the Fourth Edition xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1. Musk and Drama to the End of the Sixteenth Century
7. Chapter 1. The Lyric Theater of the Greeks 9
8. Chapter 2. Medieval Dramatic Music 13
9. Chapter 3. The Immediate Forerunners of Opera 21
10. Part 2. The Seventeenth Century
11. Chapter 4. The Beginnings: Opera in Florence and Mantua 41
12. Chapter 5. Other Early Seventeenth-Century Italian Court Operas; Including the first Comic Operas in Florence and Rome 60
13. Chapter 6. Italian Opera in the Later Seventeenth Century in Italy 83
14. Chapter 7. Seventeenth-Century Italian Opera in German-Speaking Lands 107
15. Chapter 8. Early German Opera 121
16. Chapter 9. Opera in France from Lully to Charpentier 132
17. Chapter 10. Opera in England 147
18. Part 3. The Eighteenth Century
19. Chapter 11. Masters of the Early Eighteenth Century 165
20. Chapter 12. Opera Send: General Characteristics 203
21. Chapter 13. Opera Seria: The Composers 225
22. Chapter 14. The Operas of Gluck 253
23. Chapter 15. The Comic Opera of the Eighteenth Century 272
24. Chapter 16. The Operas of Mo~art and His Viennese Contemporaries 305
25. Part 4. The Nineteenth Century
26. Chapter 17. The Turn of the Century 335
27. Chapter 18. Grand Opera 353
28. Chapter 19. Opéra Comique, Operetta, and Lyric Opera 369
29. Chapter 20. Italian Opera of the Primo Ottocento: Rossini, Donizetti! Verdi! and Their Contemporaries 383
30. Chapter 21. The Romantic Opera in Germany 417
31. Chapter 22. The Operas of Wagner 436
32. Chapter 23. The Later Nineteenth Century: France! Italy! Germany! and Austria 473
33. Part 5. Other National Traditions of Opera from the Seventeenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries
34. Chapter 24. National Traditions of Opera 507
35. Part 6. The Twentieth Century
36. Chapter 25. Introduction / Opera in France and Italy 577
37. Chapter 26. Opera in the German-Speaking Countries 611
38. Chapter 27. National Opera in Russia and Neighboring Countries Central and Eastern Europe Greece and Turkey the Netherlands! Denmark! Sweden, and England Spain, Portugal, and Latin America 662
39. Chapter 28. Opera in the British Isles! Canada! Australia! and New Zealand 708
40. Chapter 29. Opera in the United States 729
41. Appendix 787
42. Abbreviations 795
43. Bibliography 797
44. Sources and Translations of Musical Examples 897
45. Index 911