Opera: A History by Christopher Headington, Roy Westbrook, and Terry Barfoot

Opera:  A History by Christopher Headington, Roy Westbrook, and Terry Barfoot is a 399-page published in 1987 by St. Martin's Press, New York, and is a stated first U.S. Edition.  The dust jacket has light shelf wear and surface rubbing.  Inside, the book pages are clean and unmarked and the binding is solid.  The condition is very good. Book Summary The roots of opera lie in the music drama of ancient Greece and medieval Christian and secular musical plats, but it was not until the Renaissance that opera emerged in Italy as a separate musical form.  If the great majority of works by Italian composers of the seventeenth century are now forgotten, revivals in recent years of operas by Monteverdi and others have shown modern audiences something of the glories of early operatic composition.  A dimension was added when the court of Louis XIV incorporated operatic forms into its traditional masques and ballets in the seventeenth century, and by the early eighteenth century opera had become