The Standard Operaglass

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Excerpt from The Standard Operaglass: Detailed Plots of the Celebrated Operas, With Critical and Biographical Remarks, Dates, Etc, Etc The term "opera, " derived, or rather abbreviated, from e words opera in musica (works in music - i.e., a musical work) is only a convenient title that has found favor by its brevity and through lack of a better. Translate it and read works, and we see that it is a meaningless term in all else than that it is something created. And what is this "something" that has been created, that is in people's mouths so often, and that we designate by the word opera? The least cultured will be able to answer that it is a work for the stage, in which music plays a prominent part, that it is this, and something more, must be shown as we study its rise and development. Since ordinary feelings or emotions are by no means naturally expressed by musical sounds, opera must be admitted to be a thing of artificiality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.