The King's Theatre Collection
Ballet and Italian Opera in London, 1706-1883, Revised and Expanded Edition
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. September 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
553 pages
978-0-9765472-2-8 (ISBN)
Description
The John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection of the Harvard Theatre Collection is comprised of thousands of books, scores, librettos, playbills, illustrations, and ephemera relating to public performances that incorporate music and dance in an essential way. The revised and expanded edition of The King's Theatre Collection: Ballet and Italian Opera in London, 1706-1883 has an additional 200 entries, 20 new illustrations, and several new indexes. With over 1,600 entries and 40 color illustrations, this volume provides a window into the historical significance of the King's Theatre to the cultural life of London and abroad, and will appeal to musicologists, historians, theater scholars, and librarians interested in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century opera and ballet.
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
40 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 267 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1860 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9765472-2-8 (9780976547228)
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Persons
Morris S. Levy is a Cataloger at Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library. John Milton Ward is William Powell Professor of Music, Emeritus, and Honorary Curator of Dance and Music for the Theatre in the Harvard College Library.