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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> A LESSANDRO SCARLATTI (1659-1725) father of Domenico Scarlatti has too long stood in the shadow of the four great masters of the eighteenth century Bach and Handel and Haydn and Mozart. With this readable introduction to Alessandro Scarlatti’s operas Donald Jay Grout contributes to the revaluation and restoration of Scarlatti’s work that he has begun with his complete modern edition of the operas. Historically Scarlatti’s operas mark the culmination of the first hundred years of Italian opera. Their conventions of stage scenery and costume of dramatic subject matter of poetic form and language and of musical form though they may seem remote to us today are perfectly consistent within themselves and perfectly consonant with the social conditions of their time and place. With this book Professor Grout helps make those conventions understandable to to-day’s music-lovers. He discusses Ales-sandro Scarlatti’s life and work in the context of eighteenth-century Naples. (LL)