Opera and Ideas
From Mozart to Strauss
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1986
- Category
- History & Criticism
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780801494284
- Publish Date
- Oct 1986
- List Price
- $39.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 18
- Grade: 12
Description
Opera and Ideas is a study of the connections between music and intellectual history. Through lucid analysis of six operas and two song cycles, Paul Robinson shows how operas give musical and dramatic expression to ideas about the self, society, and history.