Item Detail
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La Gioia, Diana
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Libretti italiani d'operetta nella Bibliioteca nazionale centrale di Roma
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Book
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Biblioteconomia e bibliografia: Saggi e studi ; no. 11
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Firenze
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1979
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L.S. Olschki
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135 p., [6] l. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
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Italian
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8822228391
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Operas--Librettos.
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ML 48 .L27
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La Gioia, Diana. Libretti italiani d'operetta nella Bibliioteca nazionale centrale di Roma. Biblioteconomia e bibliografia. Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 1979.
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Study of italian operetta libretti/librettists between 1879-1932. Researches existing editing houses of the time. It gives a physical description of the manuscript.
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Libretti of Italian operetta, full of spirit and comedy from 1879-1932. It emphasizes three editing houses, Casa Sonzogno, Editore Ricordi and Carlo Combardo. It compares the designs that these houses used in presenting these operettas.
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It has 155 operettas cited in alphabetical order by composer name. The end contains black and white facsimiles of title pages. It also has short indexes of musicians, librettists, editors and their respective editing houses and theatrical companies.
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It gives the title pages even described in words. This might be of interest in getting a better idea about the costumes when performing that specific operetta.
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Iesue, Alberto. Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana 14 (July-September 1979): 441-42.
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BYU Library
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