Music and Theatre: Essays in Honour of Winton Dean

By Winton Dean

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 Jan cek's operas; and Britten's first two major operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521619289
• ISBN13: 9780521619288
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"