A Guide to Modern Opera (Classic Reprint) - Rilegato

Singleton, Esther

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0666434123 ISBN 13: 9780666434128

Casa editrice: Forgotten Books, 2018

Riassunto

Excerpt from A Guide to Modern Opera

The scores of the new works not only demand increase of numbers, but constantly call for strange instruments, barbaric instruments, instruments that have become obsolete, and new instruments. Conspicuous among the latter are the Celesta and the Heckelphone (see pages 215 and There seems to be a growing fondness for the sound of bells and the throb of drums; and Puccini has even tried the humming voice used as an instrument in the introduction to the last Act of M adama Butterfly.

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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0666434123
• ISBN 13: 9780666434128
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 378
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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