Massenet

Massenet
Author: Demar Irvine
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1997
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781574670240

(Amadeus). This superbly detailed biography examines the life of Jules Massenet (1842-1912), who was at the heart of Parisian musical life during a period of extraordinary artistic vitality.

Massenet's Thaïs

Massenet's Thaïs
Author: Burton D. Fisher
Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2006
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 1102009121

Burton D. Fisher's extremely popular Mini Guides feature Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and an insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis of the opera.

Massenet's Manon

Massenet's Manon
Author: Burton D. Fisher
Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2008-01-30
Genre:
ISBN: 1102009113

Massenet's Werther

Massenet's Werther
Author: Burton D. Fisher
Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2002-06-01
Genre:
ISBN: 110200913X

The Rough Guide to Opera

The Rough Guide to Opera
Author: Matthew Boyden
Publisher: Rough Guides
Total Pages: 756
Release: 2002
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781858287492

Sketches of opera composers, opera synopses, and CD reviews.

French Opera at the Fin de Siècle

French Opera at the Fin de Siècle
Author: Steven Huebner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2006-02-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780199719921

This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven Huebner gives an accessible and colorful account of such operatic favorites as Manon and Werther by Massenet, Louise by Charpentier, and lesser-known gems such as Chabrier's Le Roi malgré lui and Chausson's Le Roi Arthus.

Reader's Guide to Music

Reader's Guide to Music
Author: Murray Steib
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 928
Release: 2013-12-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135942625

The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).

Opera Anecdotes

Opera Anecdotes
Author: Ethan Mordden
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1988
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780195056617

From backstage squabbles and box-office chicanery to the gallantry and glory of creation, this book of stories unveils a delightful panorama of opera lore. "An opera lover's handbook that should always be near at hand".--Schuyler G. Chapin, Columbia University.