Summary
Dent, Edward Joseph. The Rise of
Romantic Opera. Cambridge; NY:
Cambridge University Press, 1976
782.1094 D4345r
Summary by Kelly Chinen
This book is a compilations of lectures
delivered at Cornell University which
describes the evolution of romantic
opera. The book chronologically
discusses opera through its following
developments: its beginning conventions
(opera used as comedy), the heritage
of Gluck and his influence on later
romantic opera and composers, and
the effects of Parisian opera and
romantic composers (Cherubini, Mehul,
Spontini, Rossini) on romantic composers
contemporaries of Beethoven, Weber,
Bellini. The book finally expostulates
the genesis of romantic opera to
be from the French, the tranformation
romantic opera from "comedy" to "serious,"
and how romantic opera served as
the principal source of nineteenth
century German symphonies and instrumental
style.
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Jesse D. Hurlbut--Last Updated November 15, 1993