Series: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
(Pub. Date: 23-Jul-2019, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781317082422)
The epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, attributed to Homer, are among the oldest surviving works of literature derived from oral performance. Deeply embedded in these works is the notion that they were intended to be heard: there is something musi...More info...
Series: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
(Pub. Date: 23-Jul-2019, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781317082415)
The epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, attributed to Homer, are among the oldest surviving works of literature derived from oral performance. Deeply embedded in these works is the notion that they were intended to be heard: there is something musi...More info...
(Pub. Date: 12-Jan-2004, PDF+DRM, Publisher: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520919341)
Opera developed during a time when the position of women-their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality-was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the represe...More info...