Item Detail
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Alm, Irene
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University of California, Los Angeles
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Catalog of Venetian librettos at the University of California, Los Angeles
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Book
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Catalogs and bibliographies, vol. 9
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Berkeley, Calif.
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c1993
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University of California Press
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xxviii, 1053 p. ; 27 cm.
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English
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0520097629; 9780520097629
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Operas--17th century--Librettos--Bibliography--Catalogs.
Operas--18th century--Librettos--Bibliography--Catalogs.
Opera--Italy--Venice--17th century.
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Operas; Librettos; Seventeenth Century; Eighteenth Century; Venice; Italy
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ML 136 .L842 U682 1993
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Alm, Irene. Catalog of Venetian Librettos at the University of California, Los Angeles. Catalogs and Bibliographies, ed. Roger B. Berry, J. Richard Blanchard, Vinton Dearing, James Deetz, Robert D. Harlan and John W. Tanno, vol. 9. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
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A catalog of a collection for the study of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century opera serving as a guide to the history of Venetian opera.
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This resource catalogs the complete set of opera librettos printed in Venice between 1637 and 1769 offering a continuous record of performances from the opening of the first public theater to within three decades of the fall of the Republic. Roughly 1286 librettos have been cataloged from 117 small volumes now housed at the University of California. Of these librettos, 470, or a little more than one-third, date from the seventeenth century, while the remaining 816 are from the eighteenth century.
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The original librettos from 1637 to 1674 are represented by twenty-two volumes, twelve of which contain librettos for two or three years bound together. The remaining ninety-five volumes each represent a single year, from 1675-1769. The order in which the librettos were bound with a few exceptions is identical to the order of entries within this catalog which is therefore generally chronological. The basic format of the catalog entries contain the volume (year), number, and index number referring to the position of the libretto within the individual volume and the entire collection. Entries also contain the title page transcription, pagination, prologue/acts/scenes, balli or intermedii, summary of contents, a list of roles, theater information, names of the poet, composer, ballet master, set designer, costume designer, and those working under them such as singers and dancers where available and appropriate. The catalog also contains five appendices and seventeen indexes.
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Number of appendices and indexes provide multiple alternate means for locating specific data and has helpful guides for using them.
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Baker, Evan. Fontes artis musicae 43 (April 1996): 214-16.
Selfridge-Field, Eleanor. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 51 (December 1994): 575-78.http://www.jstor.org/stable/898870 -
BYU Mus Ref
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294