| Author/Contributor(s): | Kivy, Peter |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Date: | 03/30/1999 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical--as opposed to a dramatic--necessity for opera during...