Project Gutenberg 2012-08-19 Public domain in the USA. 234 Kobbé, Gustav 1857 1918 Kobbe, Gustav The Complete Opera Book The Stories of the Operas, together with 400 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical Notation Produced by Charlene Taylor, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Complete Opera Book" by Gustav Kobbé is a comprehensive reference work on opera written in the early 20th century. This publication serves as a detailed guide to the stories of operas, presenting analyses alongside musical notation of over 400 significant arias and motives. It touches upon the evolution of opera across different schools, particularly Italian, French, and German, while also highlighting key composers and their works. The opening of the book introduces readers to the essential schools of opera, explaining the distinctive characteristics of each: the melodic focus of Italian opera, the rich orchestration of French compositions, and the dramatic depth found in German operas. Furthermore, it discusses the evolution leading to Gluck’s reforms, which aimed to restore balance between vocal and instrumental elements in opera, emphasizing the importance of dramatic expression over mere vocal display. Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice" is noted as a pivotal work that marked the transition to a more dramatic and expressive form of opera. Overall, this introductory segment effectively sets the stage for a deep exploration of operatic history and analysis. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/40540/40540-h/images/cover.jpg en Operas -- Stories, plots, etc. MT Text Browsing: Music Browsing: Fiction 2153379 2153361 2024-09-17T06:46:44.071498 2023-09-17T14:56:06.639348 text/html text/html 2081779 2012-08-19T13:53:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 23138658 2012-08-19T13:54:42 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 19409267 2024-09-17T06:47:49.038702 application/epub+zip 19439047 2024-09-17T06:47:01.729473 application/epub+zip 847979 2024-09-17T06:46:50.601461 application/epub+zip 14218611 2024-09-17T06:48:13.605556 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 13952653 2024-09-17T06:47:35.497239 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1275301 2022-09-18T14:37:59.360423 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1632266 1632038 2024-09-17T06:46:28.952622 2023-09-17T14:55:53.574210 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 1629859 2012-08-19T13:53:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 621395 2012-08-19T13:54:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1630427 2012-08-19T13:53:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 620070 2012-08-19T13:54:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20220 2024-09-17T06:48:13.877557 application/rdf+xml 20235 2024-09-17T06:46:51.104474 image/jpeg 2570 2024-09-17T06:46:50.858461 image/jpeg 23145376 2024-09-17T06:46:46.304483 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia