Nyal Zeno Williams

A History of the Oratorio

• Author(s): Howard E. Smither

• Categories: Music

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2012-09-01
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• Publisher: UNC Press Books

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 antecedents and origins of the oratorio, with emphasis on Rome and Philip Neri's Congregation of the Oratory and with special attention to the earliest works for which the term oratorio seems appropriate. The second part recounts the development of the oratorio in Italy, circa 1640-1720. It reviews...

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology

• Categories: Dissertations, Academic

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1984
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Masses of Giovanni Francesco Anerio: Supplement : a critical edition

• Author(s): Nyal Zeno Williams

• Categories: Mass (Music)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1978
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• Publisher: Unknown

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National Union Catalog

• Categories: Union catalogs

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1973
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• Publisher: Unknown

Includes entries for maps and atlases.

A Bibliography of Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations in Music Completed at Texas Colleges and Universities, 1919-1962

• Author(s): Texas Music Educators Association. Research in Music Education Committee

• Categories: Dissertations, Academic

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1964
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• Publisher: Unknown

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