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  • I Lombardi: Vocal Score by Verdi, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Verdi

    I Lombardi: Vocal Score

    Author: Giuseppe VerdiISBN-10: 0793528615ISBN-13: 9780793528615Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 356Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.95lbsSize: 10.50h x 7.80w x 1.00d
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  • Il Barbiere Di Siviglia: Libretto by Rossini, Gioacchino
    Gioacchino Rossini

    Il Barbiere Di Siviglia: Libretto

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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  • Gilbert and Sullivan: Class and the Savoy Tradition, 1875-1896 by Oost, Regina B.
    Regina B. Oost

    Gilbert and Sullivan: Class and the Savoy Tradition, 1875-1896

    Making use of archival resources in the United Kingdom and the United States, Regina B. Oost examines advertisements, promotional materials, and programs, as well as letters, diaries, and account books, to reconstruct the ways in which Richard D'Oyly Carte, W.S. Gilbert, and Arthur Sullivan...
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  • Verdi and the French Aesthetic by Giger, Andreas
    Andreas Giger

    Verdi and the French Aesthetic: Verse, Stanza, and Melody in Nineteenth-Century Opera

    Focusing on Verdi's French operas, Giger shows how the composer acquired an ever better understanding of the various approaches to French versification while gradually bringing his works in line with French melodic aesthetic. In his first French opera, J rusalem, Verdi treated the text...
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  • The Lost Tradition of Dvořák's Operas: Myth, Music, and Nationalism by Holland, John
    John Holland

    The Lost Tradition of Dvor疚's Operas: Myth, Music, and Nationalism

    This book investigates the stories behind the neglect and suppression of Anton? Dvoř疚's operas and presents new analysis and understanding of these beautiful works.Author: John HollandISBN-10: 1666930148ISBN-13: 9781666930146Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2023Pages: 204Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
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  • Richard Wagner's Beethoven (1870): A New Translation by Allen, Roger
    Roger Allen

    Richard Wagner's Beethoven (1870): A New Translation

    Wagner's book-length essay on Beethoven is really about Wagner himself rather than Beethoven. It is generally regarded as the principal aesthetic statement of the composer's later years and is an essential text in the teaching of not only Wagnerian thought but also late nineteenth-century...
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  • Lifting My Voice by Hendricks, Barbara
    Barbara Hendricks

    Lifting My Voice

    Growing up African American in segregated Arkansas in the 1950s, Barbara Hendricks witnessed firsthand the painful struggle for civil rights. After graduation from the Juilliard School of Music, Hendricks immediately won a number of important international prizes, and began performing in recitals and operas...
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  • Song Words Of The Lion Tamer: Comic Opera, In Two Acts (1891) by Stahl, Richard
    Richard Stahl

    Song Words Of The Lion Tamer: Comic Opera, In Two Acts (1891)

    ""Song Words of the Lion Tamer: Comic Opera, in Two Acts"" is a musical work written by Richard Stahl and first published in 1891. The opera tells the story of a lion tamer named Leo, who falls in love with a wealthy woman named...
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  • The Bride Elect: Comic Opera In Three Acts by Sousa, John Philip
    John Philip Sousa

    The Bride Elect: Comic Opera In Three Acts

    John Philip Sousa's beloved operetta tells the story of an arranged marriage that is complicated by the arrival of a former flame. With catchy tunes and witty lyrics, it is a delight for audiences of all ages.This work has been selected by scholars as...
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  • Pr'hody lisky Bystrousky, The Cunning Little Vixen: Translations and Pronunciation by Cheek, Timothy
    Timothy Cheek

    Pr'hody lisky Bystrousky, The Cunning Little Vixen: Translations and Pronunciation

    This entire volume is organized in a clear, readable format, resulting in a book that will help to make productions of The Cunning Little Vixen in the original Czech much easier a task than ever before.Author: Timothy CheekISBN-10: 0810846713ISBN-13: 9780810846715Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2003Pages:...
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  • Puccini in Context by Wilson, Alexandra
    Alexandra Wilson

    Puccini in Context

    Exploring the many dimensions of Giacomo Puccini's historical legacy and significance, this book provides new perspectives on the life and work of a much-loved opera composer and demonstrates how political concerns shape the way we approach and perform his works in the present day....
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  • Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado by Lawrence, Robert
    Robert Lawrence

    Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado

    Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado is a book written by Robert Lawrence that provides a comprehensive overview of the popular comic opera. The Mikado is one of the most famous works of Gilbert and Sullivan, and the book delves deep into the history, background,...
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  • Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Marvin, Roberta Montemorra
    Roberta Montemorra Marvin

    Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic "experiences" outside the opera houses of Britain during the nineteenth century. The essays adopt a variety of perspectives exploring the processes through which opera and ideas about opera were cultivated and disseminated,...
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  • The Jewels Of The Madonna by Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno
    Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

    The Jewels Of The Madonna

    This stirring opera tells the story of an ordinary woman living in Naples who is driven to extraordinary deeds by her love for the Madonna. Wolf-Ferrari's intricate score and vivid characters make this a must-see for opera lovers around the world.This work has been...
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  • The Pirates of Penzance: Or the Slave of Duty Vocal Score by Gilbert, William S.
    William S. Gilbert

    The Pirates of Penzance: Or the Slave of Duty Vocal Score

    (Vocal Score). The Pirates of Penzance, premiered in 1879, confirmed the comic genius of librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan, following on the heels of their wildly successful H.M.S. Pinafore . Pirates invade the rocky coast of Cornwall in this topsy-turvy tale of...
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  • Pavarotti Up Close by Magiera, Leone
    Leone Magiera

    Pavarotti Up Close

    (Misc). Pavarotti Up Close is an unprecedented and affectionate portrait of the greatest tenor of the twentieth century, told through the eyes of his longtime musical coach and accompanist Leone Magiera. The secrets of the legendary voice are revealed for the first time, written...
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  • The Music Dramas Of Richard Wagner And His Festival Theatre In Bayreuth by Lavignac, Albert
    Albert Lavignac

    The Music Dramas Of Richard Wagner And His Festival Theatre In Bayreuth

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Lucia Di Lammermoor: Libretto by Donizetti, Gaetano
    Gaetano Donizetti

    Lucia Di Lammermoor: Libretto

    Author: Gaetano DonizettiISBN-10: 0793528291ISBN-13: 9780793528295Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 10.20h x 6.50w x 0.30d
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  • Haydn's Jews: Representation and Reception on the Operatic Stage by Clark, Caryl
    Caryl Clark

    Haydn's Jews: Representation and Reception on the Operatic Stage

    This fascinating study of ethnic theatrical representation provides original perspectives on the cultural milieu, compositional strategies and operatic legacy of Joseph Haydn. The portrayal of Jews changed markedly during the composer's lifetime. Before the Enlightenment, when Jews were treated as a people apart, physical...
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  • North German Opera in the Age of Goethe by Bauman, Thomas
    Thomas Bauman

    North German Opera in the Age of Goethe

    This book is the first study of the development of German opera in northern Germany from the first comic operas of Johann Adam Hiller at Leipzig in 1766 to the end of the century. Intellectually and historically, the period witnessed the flowering of the...
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  • Richard Wagner's Women by Rieger, Eva
    Eva Rieger

    Richard Wagner's Women

    This book is a well-researched and exhaustive analysis of the role of women in Wagner's operas. Wagner's varied portrayal of the relationships of the sexes is revealingly interpreted. There was no doubt that Wagner regarded women subservient to men. This comes out not only...
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  • Medievalism and Nationalism in German Opera: Euryanthe to Lohengrin by Richardson, Michael S.
    Michael S. Richardson

    Medievalism and Nationalism in German Opera: Euryanthe to Lohengrin

    Medievalism, or the reception or interpretation of the Middle Ages, was a prominent aesthetic for German opera composers in the first half of the nineteenth century. A healthy competition to establish a Germanic operatic repertory arose at this time, and fascination with medieval times...
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  • Nicolai Gedda: My Life and Art by Gedda, Nicolai
    Nicolai Gedda

    Nicolai Gedda: My Life and Art

    This autobiography is the first full-length book in English on Nicolai Gedda, born in Sweden in 1925 but deeply influenced by his Russian-born stepfather, himself a singer with a renowned Russian emigr choir. A leading tenor throughout the latter half of the 20th century,...
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  • Mozart's Operas and National Politics: Canon Formation in Prague from 1791 to the Present by Nedbal, Martin
    Martin Nedbal

    Mozart's Operas and National Politics

    Author: Martin NedbalISBN-10: 1009257595ISBN-13: 9781009257596Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/10/2023Pages: 306Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.52lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.75d
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  • La Sonnambula: Vocal Score by Bellini, Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Bellini

    La Sonnambula: Vocal Score

    Author: Vincenzo BelliniISBN-10: 0634072536ISBN-13: 9780634072536Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/1996Pages: 201Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 10.60h x 8.10w x 0.80d
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  • Opera in Context: Essays on Historical Staging from the Late Renaissance to the Time of Puccini by Radice, Mark a.
    Mark a. Radice

    Opera in Context: Essays on Historical Staging from the Late Renaissance to the Time of Puccini

    OPERA IN CONTEXT ESSAYS ON HISTORICAL STAGING FROM THE LATE RENAISSANCE TOAuthor: Mark a. RadiceISBN-10: 1574670328ISBN-13: 9781574670325Publisher: AmadeusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2003Pages: 410Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.63lbsSize: 8.95h x 7.16w x 1.19d
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  • Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act by Wilde, Oscar
    Oscar Wilde

    Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act

    "Salomé" is a 1891 play in one act by Oscar Wilde. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of the most popular in London during the 1880s and 1890s. Well-known for his sharp wit and extravagant...
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  • Opera in Old San Francisco: A Brief Anecdotal History by Clauss, Mary Jean
    Mary Jean Clauss

    Opera in Old San Francisco: A Brief Anecdotal History

    Gold was the lure Opera in the world's western hemisphere - whether sung in Italian, French, German, or English - began in the Spanish colonies of South and Central America. Years before operas were first staged in San Francisco, opera companies flourished in Lima,...
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  • La Fanciulla del West: Full Score by Puccini, Giacomo
    Giacomo Puccini

    La Fanciulla del West: Full Score

    (Study Score). Paperback edition with new art cover.Author: Giacomo PucciniISBN-10: 1423403479ISBN-13: 9781423403470Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2005Pages: 440Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.40lbsSize: 10.60h x 7.70w x 1.00d
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  • Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera Volume 13 by Smart, Mary Ann
    Mary Ann Smart

    Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera Volume 13

    When Nietzsche dubbed Richard Wagner "the most enthusiastic mimomaniac" ever to exist, he was objecting to a hollowness he felt in the music, a crowding out of any true dramatic impulse by extravagant poses and constant nervous movements. Mary Ann Smart suspects that Nietzsche...
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  • Latin America and the Transports of Opera: Fragments of a Transatlantic Discourse by Díaz, Roberto Ignacio
    Roberto Ignacio D僘z

    Latin America and the Transports of Opera: Fragments of a Transatlantic Discourse

    Latin America and the Transports of Opera studies a series of episodes in the historical and textual convergence of a hallowed art form and a part of the world often regarded as peripheral. Perhaps unexpectedly, the archives of opera generate new arguments about several...
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  • Latin America and the Transports of Opera: Fragments of a Transatlantic Discourse by Díaz, Roberto Ignacio
    Roberto Ignacio D僘z

    Latin America and the Transports of Opera: Fragments of a Transatlantic Discourse

    Latin America and the Transports of Opera studies a series of episodes in the historical and textual convergence of a hallowed art form and a part of the world often regarded as peripheral. Perhaps unexpectedly, the archives of opera generate new arguments about several...
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  • Manon Lescaut: A Lyric Drama In Four Acts by Puccini, Giacomo
    Giacomo Puccini

    Manon Lescaut: A Lyric Drama In Four Acts

    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...
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  • The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia by Vazsonyi, Nicholas
    Nicholas Vazsonyi

    The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia

    Richard Wagner is one of the most controversial figures in Western cultural history. He revolutionized not only opera but the very concept of art, and his works and ideas have had an immeasurable impact on both the cultural and political landscapes of the late...
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  • The Opera Past and Present by Apthorp, William Foster
    William Foster Apthorp

    The Opera Past and Present

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan by Eden, David
    David Eden

    The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan

    Memorable melodies and fanciful worlds - the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan remain as popular today as when they were first performed. This Companion provides a timely guide to the history and development of the collaboration between the two men, including a fresh...
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  • Queer Opera by Sutherland, Andrew
    Andrew Sutherland

    Queer Opera

    In Queer Opera, Andrew Sutherland argues that operas often reflect characteristics of the society and epistime in which they are written but that they also do much more than that; operas have agency. LGBTQ+ social, cultural, and political issues have become an increasingly defining...
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  • Salome A Tragedy in One Act by Douglas, Alfred Bruce
    Alfred Bruce Douglas

    Salome A Tragedy in One Act

    Salome is a tragic play written by Oscar Wilde, which tells the biblical story of Salome. Salome dances the Dance of the Seven Veils so well that she receives a boon from her stepfather Herod Antipas. Much to his dismay and her mother's delight...
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  • Italian for Opera Lovers: Dictionary by Newborn, Sasha
    Sasha Newborn

    Italian for Opera Lovers: Dictionary

    In the sixteenth century, a group of Renaissance Italians sat down together to revive the lost art of Greek and Roman drama, as part of the great rebirth of learning that had already revolutionized the arts of painting, poetry, architecture. To name this "new"...
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  • Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Ross, Alex
    Alex Ross

    Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

    Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics--an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its...
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  • Igor Stravinsky, the Rake's Progress by Griffiths, Paul
    Paul Griffiths

    Igor Stravinsky, the Rake's Progress

    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...
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  • Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style by Davis, Andrew
    Andrew Davis

    Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style

    Giacomo Puccini is one of the most frequently performed and best loved of all operatic composers. In Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style, Andrew Davis takes on the subject of Puccini's last two works to better understand how the composer creates meaning through...
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  • Wagner & Cinema by Joe, Jeongwon
    Jeongwon Joe

    Wagner & Cinema

    The work of Richard Wagner is a continuing source of artistic inspiration and ideological controversy in literature, philosophy, and music, as well as cinema. In Wagner and Cinema, a diverse group of established and emerging scholars examines Wagner's influence on cinema from the silent...
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  • Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera by André, Naomi
    Naomi André

    Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera

    The early 19th century was a period of acute transition in operatic tradition and style, when time-honored practices gave way to the developing aesthetics of Romanticism, the rise of the tenor overtook the falling stars of the castrati, and the heroic, the masculine, and...
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  • Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg by Warrack, John
    John Warrack

    Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von N?nberg

    This book presents a lively and informative account of Die Meistersinger von N rnberg, including its literary sources and the evolution of the text from a light comic opera into its final form. John Warrack examines the music and historical tradition of the Mastersingers;...
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  • Rigoletto in Full Score by Verdi, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Verdi

    Rigoletto in Full Score

    Remarkable for its bold characterization, color, atmosphere, and dramatic plot, Verdi's 1851 opera was an immediate success upon its Venice debut, and it remains a staple of the repertoire to this day. The tale of a despised hunchback and his beloved daughter marked the...
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  • Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai: Transpositions of a 'Japanese Tragedy' by Groos, Arthur
    Arthur Groos

    Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai

    Puccini's famous but controversial Madama Butterfly reflects a practice of 'temporary marriage' between Western men and Japanese women in nineteenth-century treaty ports. Groos' book identifies the plot's origin in an eye-witness account and traces its transmission via John Luther Long's short story and David...
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  • Opera Through Other Eyes by Levin, David J.
    David J. Levin

    Opera Through Other Eyes

    A Stanford University Press classic.Author: David J. LevinISBN-10: 0804722404ISBN-13: 9780804722407Publisher: Stanford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1994Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 7.96h x 6.49w x 0.66d
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  • Opera on the Couch: Music, Emotional Life, and Unconscious Aspects of Mind by Goldberg, Steven H.
    Steven H. Goldberg

    Opera on the Couch: Music, Emotional Life, and Unconscious Aspects of Mind

    In this widely ranging collection of essays, a group of contemporary psychoanalyst/authors turn their finely-honed listening skills and clinical experience to plumb the depths and illuminate themes of character, drama, myth, culture, and psychobiography in some of the world's most beloved operas. The richly...
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  • Transformations of Musical Modernism by Guldbrandsen, Erling E.
    Erling E. Guldbrandsen

    Transformations of Musical Modernism

    This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.Author: Erling E. GuldbrandsenISBN-10: 1107566096ISBN-13: 9781107566095Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2023Pages: 367Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.76d
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