Musically sound and fully annotated, this new reference work provides ready access to over 700 excerpts from 100 operas, by voice categories, and thus provides information on a wide variety of matters of interest to directors, teach-ers, and singers. A table of voice cate-gories, coded excerpts (including length and reference to accessible scores), char-acter descriptions (including estimations of degrees of difficulty of the music), summaries of the action of each excerpt, and indexes to titles, composers, and well-known arias and ensembles make this book an indispensable tool.
- ISBN13 9780809332809
- Publish Date 1 October 2013 (first published 16 August 1979)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Southern Illinois University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 310
- Language English