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800 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691033013
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 15 August 1993
Description
W. H. Auden called opera the last refuge of the High Style, and considered it the one art in which the grand manner survived the ironic levelings of modernity. He began writing libretti soon after he arrived in America in 1939 and abandoned his ea...
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800 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691033013
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 15 August 1993
Description
W. H. Auden called opera the last refuge of the High Style, and considered it the one art in which the grand manner survived the ironic levelings of modernity. He began writing libretti soon after he arrived in America in 1939 and abandoned his ea...