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Tables of Contents for Monteverdi's Musical Theatre
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vi
Monteverdi and the `problems of opera'
1
16
Music on the late Renaissance stage
17
30
Monteverdi and his librettists
47
27
The art of the theatre
74
35
Orfeo (1607)
109
29
The balli
138
29
The Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (1624)
167
30
Approaching the lost works
197
40
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1640)
237
26
L'incoronazione di Poppea (1643)
263
35
Appendix: Monteverdi's theatrical works
298
8
Works cited
306
11
Index of Monteverdi's theatrical works
317
3
Index of names, institutions and theatres
320