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Emblems of eloquence : opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice
- Title
- Emblems of eloquence : opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / Wendy Heller.
- Author
- Heller, Wendy, 1955-
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
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- Description
- xix, 386 p. : ill., music; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-369) and index.
- Contents
- The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- "Disprezzata regina" : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure -- Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan.
- Call Number
- JME 04-72
- ISBN
- 0520209338 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003001853
- OCLC
- 51566365
- Author
- Heller, Wendy, 1955-
- Title
- Emblems of eloquence : opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / Wendy Heller.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-369) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JME 04-72