Department of Music
Stanford University

CONTENTS

W.H. Auden, "Notes on Music and Opera," The Dyer's Hand & Other Essays (London: Faber and Faber, 1963)

Peter Conrad, "Orpheus," A Song of Love and Death: The Meaning of Opera (New York: Poseidon, 1987)

John Whenham, "Orfeo: A Masterpiece for a Court," The Operas of Monteverdi, English National Opera Guide 45 (London: Calder, 1992 )

Bruce Wood and Andrew Pinnock, "'Unscarr'd by turning times?': The Dating of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas," Early Music 10/3 (1992)

Curtis Price, "Dido and Aeneas: Questions of Style and Evidence," Early Music 12/1 (1994)

Bruce Wood and Andrew Pinnock, "'Singin' in the Rain': Yet More on dating Dido," Early Music 10/2 (1994)

Winton Dean, "The Opera Seria Convention," "Handel's Solution," and excerpt from "Anti-Heroic Operas," Handel and the Opera Seria, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969)

Daniel Heartz, "Three Schools for Lovers, or 'Così fan tutte le belle'," Mozart's Operas (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)

George Bernhard Shaw, "The Rhine Gold," "Wagner as Revolutionist," The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring (London: Constable & Co., ⁴1923)

Joseph Kerman, "Verdi's Otello: Traditional Opera and the Image of Shakespeare," Opera as Drama (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988)

Mark DeVoto, "Wozzeck in Context," Wozzeck, English National Opera Guide 42 (London: Calder, 1990 )

Geoffrey Chew, "Pastoral and Neoclassicism: A Reinterpretation of Auden's and Stravinsky's Rake's Progress," Cambridge Opera Journal 5/3 (1993)