Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
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Chapters (33)
- E-text prepared by Louise Hope, David Newman, Chuck Greif, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/)
- SOME FORERUNNERS
- ITALIAN OPERA
- TO HER
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- SOME FORERUNNERS OF ITALIAN OPERA
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- Footnotes
- INDEX
- LAVIGNAC'S MUSIC AND MUSICIANS
- ANGELO NEUMANN'S PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF WAGNER
- WAGNER'S ART, LIFE, AND THEORIES
- WAGNER'S RING OF THE NIBELUNG
- BANISTER'S MUSIC
- JOHNSON'S (Helen K., ed.) OUR FAMILIAR SONGS AND THOSE WHO MADE THEM
- HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
- KREHBIEL'S CHAPTERS OF OPERA
- ROMAIN ROLLAND'S JEAN-CHRISTOPHE
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