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  • A History of the Oratorio

    Vol. 2: the Oratorio in the Baroque Era: Protestant Germany and England

    by Howard E. Smither ...
    Written by an eminent scholar in a style that represents American musicological writing at its communicative best, A History of the Oratorio offers a synthesis and critical appraisal so exhaustive and reliable that the serious student of the oratorio will be compelled to look to these volumes as an indispensable source. No work on the history of the oratorio has yet appeared in the English ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A History of the Oratorio

    Vol. 4: The Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    by Howard E. Smither ...
    With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio. Volumes 1 and 2, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1977, treated the oratorio in the Baroque era, while Volume 3, published in 1987, explored the genre in the Classical era. Here, Smither surveys the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century oratorio, stressing the main geographic areas of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A History of the Oratorio, 4 volumes, Omnibus E-book

    Includes all four volumes of A History of the Oratorio

    by Howard E. Smither ...
    The University of North Carolina Press is proud to announce Howard Smither’s ground-breaking four-volume A History of the Oratorio, are now available in one convenient Omnibus E-Book edition. Published as UNC Press Enduring Editions, these volumes bring Smither’s landmark scholarship to a new generation of readers and scholars.Written by an eminent scholar in a style that represents American ... Read more

    $269.99 USD

  • A History of the Oratorio

    Vol. 1: The Oratorio in the Baroque Era: Italy, Vienna, Paris

    by Howard E. Smither ...
    Howard Smither has written the first definitive work on the history of the oratorio since Arnold Schering published his Geschichte des Oratoriums in 1911. This volume is the first of a four-volume comprehensive study that offers a new synthesis of what is known to date about the oratorio.Volume 1, divided into three parts, opens with the examination of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A History of the Oratorio

    Vol. 3: the Oratorio in the Classical Era

    by Howard E. Smither ...
    The Oratorio in the classical Era is the third volume of Howard Smither’s monumental History of the Oratorio, continuing his synthesis and critical appraisal of the oratorio. His comprehensive study surpasses in scope and treatment all previous works on the subject. A fourth and final volume, on the oratorio in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is forthcoming.In this volume Smither discusses ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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