ISBN: 9780521281997 - igor stravinsky: the rake's progress (cambridge opera handbooks) (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

paperback. Zustand: Good. Ex-library copy with usual markings.

Zustand: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. 982 1st edition with B&W illustrations and musical examples; a clean, tidy copy. Cambridge Opera Handbooks.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:0521281997.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Slight wear, spine faded.

Zustand: New. pp. 124 1:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam.

Paperback. Zustand: Like New. First Edition. In nearly new condition: firm and square with strong joints, no creases. Just a few hardly noticeable rubs or very mild bumps. Hence a non-text page shows a small 'damaged' stamp. Despite such this book looks and feels unread. Thus the contents are crisp, fresh and tight. And so a very nice book in great condition, now offered for sale at a reasonable price. …

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 109 pages. 8.75x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. Includes explanatory essays on the opera by Gabriel Josipovici and Paul Griffiths, a detailed synopsis, an outline of the work's performance history, and a discussion of its genesis as well as a discography and bibliography. Series Editor(s): Wagner, Richard. Series: Cambridge Opera Handbooks. Num Pages: 124 pages, illustrations, music, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 7. Weight in Grams: 170. . 1982. Illustrated. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky's biggest work and one of the few great operas written since the 1920s, rare too for the unusual quality of its libretto, by Auden and Kallman. Its importance is undisputed, but so too are the problems it raises: problems of both performance and understanding, caused by the irony with which it is so thoroughly permeated. In aspects of style and operatic convention it looks back to the eighteenth century, and in particular to the operas of Mozart and da Ponte, while making references also to other periods, to operas from Monteverdi to Verdi. Yet at the same time it is wholly a work of the twentieth-century, and indeed it is centrally concerned with the impossibility of return, artistic, psychological or actual, as well as with the nature and limitation of human free will. The Rake's Progress is not one of unbridled dissipation but rather, more interestingly, one of attachment to naive notions of freedom and choice, and his tragedy is that he can never go back.…

Zustand: New. Inhaltsverzeichnis1. The composer s view Igor Stravinsky 2. The makers and their work 3. A note on the sketches and the two version of the libretto Robert Craft 4. Synopsis 5. Performance history 6. Some thoughts on the libretto Gab.