by Mary Elaine Wallace and Robert Wallace
Southern Illinois University Press, 1979
Cloth: 978-0-8093-0903-0 | Paper: 978-0-8093-3280-9 | eISBN: 978-0-8093-8455-6
Library of Congress Classification MT955.W24
Dewey Decimal Classification 782.1071

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Musically sound and fully annotated, this new reference work provides ready access to over 700 excerpts from 100 operas, by voice categories, and thus provides information on a wide variety of matters of interest to directors, teach­ers, and singers. A table of voice cate­gories, coded excerpts (including length and reference to accessible scores), char­acter descriptions (including estimations of degrees of difficulty of the music), summaries of the action of each excerpt, and indexes to titles, composers, and well-known arias and ensembles make this book an indispensable tool.