Author: HOWES, FRANK AND HOPE-WALLACE, PHILIP
Title: A Key to Opera
Description: London, Blackie. 1948. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Purple titles on yellow cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Intenally there is a small neat inscription to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket is complete with some minor chipping. The authors were front rank music critics and in this volume discuss fully the nature of opera and it's central problem of reconciling the conflicting claims of the two arts, musical and dramatic. It uses the history to show how the problem has been solved in various ways at different times. A1C. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Opera Critics


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