Divining the Powers of Music: Aesthetic Theory and the Origins of Opera

By Ruth Katz

The intensive effort, toward the end of the sixteenth century, to animate dramatic texts through the use of music created a strain to define the unique properties of words and music and the optimum... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918728487
• ISBN13: 9780918728487
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Pendragon Press
• Length: 235 Pages