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Operetta : a theatrical history / Richard Traubner.
- Title
- Operetta : a theatrical history / Richard Traubner.
- Author
- Traubner, Richard
- Publication
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1983.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Irwin K. Carson Collection. mus
- Description
- xvii, 461 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This book goes further into the history of operetta, branching out from American operetta. It is useful in understanding how operetta is used and what ideas and concepts have been explored using this art form. It covers Offenbach, Viennese operetta, Gilbert and Sullivan, Kalman, Kurt Weill, Broadway, pasticcio and zarzuela.
- Subject
- Operetta
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 434-440.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Overture -- Beginners, please! -- The emperor of operetta -- Post-1870 Paris -- Vienna gold -- The school of Strauss II -- The Savoy tradition -- The Edwardesian era -- Fin de siécle -- The Merry Widow and her rivals -- Silver Vienna -- Continental varieties -- The West End -- American operetta -- Broadway -- Pasticcio and zarzuela, Italy and Russia -- Bibliography -- Index.
- ISBN
- 0385132328
- LCCN
- ^^^77027684^/MN
- OCLC
- 7947883
- SCSB-10392959
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library