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Authors: Robert Sherman,Philip Seldon,Naixin He
Gotterdammerung
Lohengrin
Parsifal
The Ring of the Niebelung
Siegfried
Tannhauser
Tristan and Isolde
Fidelio
history
La Boheme
Lehmann, Lilli
librettos
literary borrowing
Lucia di Lammermoor
Madame Butterfly
Puccini, Giacomo
compositions
Rigoletto
Rossini, Gioacchino
compositions
singers
Anderson, June
Anderson, Marian,
Bartoli, Cecilia
Callas, Maria
Caruso, Enrico
Chernov, Vladimir,
Freni, Mirella
Gruberova, Edita
Hadley, Jerry
Hampson, Thomas
Heppner, Ben
Horne, Marilyn
Leiferkus, Sergei
Lind, Jenny
McMillan, Kevin
Merritt, Chris
Millo, Aprile
Milnes, Sherrill
Morris, James
Norman, Jessye
Patti, Adelina
Plishka, Paul
Price, Leontyne
Ramey, Samuel
Sills, Beverly
Sutherland, Joan
Upshaw, Dawn
Van Dam, Jose
Voight, Deborah
Von Stade, Frederica
Zajick, Dolora
sources
successes and failures
themes
Three Tenors
Carreras, Jose
Domingo, Placido
Pavarotti, Luciano
Tosca
Verdi, Giuseppe
Wagner
Melchoir, Lauritz
Nilsson, Birgit
Wagnerian
leitmotifs
orchestration
opera buffa
Gilbert and Sullivan
compositions
Offenbach, Jacques
compositions
operettas
plots
Daughter of the Regiment
Don Pasquale
Falstaff
Gianni Schicchi
The Barber of Seville
The Marriage of Figaro
Strauss, Johann
opera houses
tickets prices
operetta
oratorio
orchestras
concertmasters
conductors
podiums
diversity
electronic
instruments
texture
timbre
Ordinary (Mass)
organs
outdoor concerts
overture
Ozawa, Seiji
P
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan
Paganini, Niccolo
compositions
Parsifal
(Wagner)
Pastorale
Patti, Adelina
Pavarotti, Luciano
Perahia, Murray
Perlman, Itzhak
phonograph
phrases
pianissimo
pianists
pianos
giraffe piano
tone clusters
trios
virtuosos
Alkan
de Pachmann, Vladimir
Gottschalk, Louis Moreau
Horowitz, Vladimir
Liszt, Franz
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Rosenthal, Moriz
Rubinstein, Arthur
Thalberg, Sigismond
piccolos
Pires, Maria Joao
pitch
pizzicato
plainchant,
see
chants
plainsong,
see
chants
Plishka, Paul
podiums
“Poem of Ecstacy,”
ref-1
polyphony
Ponselle, Rosa
portative organ
Pratt, Awadigan
premature applause
Prestissimo
Presto
Price, Leontyne
prima donnas
Callas, Maria
Lind, Jenny
Patti, Adelina
Prokofiev, Sergei
Prometheus
Proper (mass)
psalms
Puccini, Giacomo
Purcell, Henry
Q
quadraladeral triangles
quartets
Mozart
quintets
R
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
radio
Ramey, Samuel
Rammel, Hal
Rampal, Jean-Pierre
Rattle, Simon
Ravel, Maurice
recapitulation
receivers, selecting
recognizing classical music
recordings
CDs
collecting
see also LPs; stereo equipment
records
reeds
Reich, Steve
Reiner, Fritz
Requiem
Rhythmicana
Rhythmicon
Richter, Sviatoslav
Rigoletto
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai
compositions
The Ring of the Niebelung
(Wagner)
Ring Cycle
Robeson, Paul
Rodzinski, Artur
Rolling Stones
Romantic composers
Berlioz, Hector
Brahms, Johannes
Chopin, Frederic
Cowell, Henry
tone clusters
Debussy, Claude
Ives, Charles
Mahler, Gustav
Schoenberg, Arnold
compositions
Schumann, Robert
Strauss, Richard
Stravinsky, Igor
Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich
compositions
Williams, Vaughan
compositions
rondos
Rosenthal, Moriz
Rossini, Gioacchino
roulade
Rozsa, Miklos
Rubinstein, Arthur
S
sackbuts
sacred music
Gregorian chants
hymns
Mass
motets
oratorio
psalms
Salonen, Esa-Pekka
Sanctus
saxophones
scale
Scarlatti, Domenico