The King′s Theatre Collection - Ballet and Italian Opera in London 1706-1883 Revised Edition

2. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-9765472-2-8
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 553 Seiten, Format (B × H): 218 mm x 272 mm, Gewicht: 1852 g

Reihe: Houghton Library Publications

The John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection of the Harvard Theatre Collection is comprised of thousands of books, scores, librettos, playbills, illustrations, and ephemera relating to public performances that incorporate music and dance in an essential way. The revised and expanded edition of The King's Theatre Collection: Ballet and Italian Opera in London, 1706-1883 has an additional 200 entries, 20 new illustrations, and several new indexes. With over 1,600 entries and 40 color illustrations, this volume provides a window into the historical significance of the King's Theatre to the cultural life of London and abroad, and will appeal to musicologists, historians, theater scholars, and librarians interested in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century opera and ballet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levy, Morris S.

Ward, John Milton

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik

Über Autor(innen)

Ward, John Milton
John Milton Ward is William Powell Professor of Music, Emeritus, and Honorary Curator of Dance and Music for the Theatre in the Harvard College Library.

Levy, Morris S.
Morris S. Levy is a Cataloger at Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library.