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A History of the Oratorio: Vol. 4: the Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Author(s): Howard E. Smither (Author)
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date: 30 Nov. 2000
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 856 pages
- ISBN-10: 0807825115
- ISBN-13: 9780807825112
Book Description
This volume completes Howard E. Smither’s history of the oratorio, and it covers the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the oratorio in each language and geographical area by studying the cultural and social context, and offering analyses of 31 specific oratorios.
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The final volume of an essential musical reference. Howard Smither surveys the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century oratorio, stressing the main geographic areas of oratorio composition and performance: Germany, Britain, America, and France.
