The Development of Certain Tendencies in Modern Opera Thesis for the degree of Bachelor of Music

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11.6 -- -- -- -- 14.07 3.2 -- -- -- 19.50 -- -- -- -- 33.13 -- -- -- -- .833 -- 2.53 -- -- 9.59 6.32 -- -- -- 8.89 5.69 4.47 3.91 6.35 34.2 34.2 22.8 15.75 10.65 2.46 2.97 .743 -- 1.1 8.3 1.66 4.7 -- -- 15.25 4.92 2.7 15.7 -- 1.6 3.1 -- -- -- 6.46 -- .963 -- -- 12.73 6.52 1.76 4.07 -- 6.4 2.07 -- -- -- 3.25 2.42 2.71 -- -- 10.68 8.50 7.89 1.708 -- 5.19 4.24 .033 -- -- 4.31 -- 2.66 -- -- 4.39 2.685 -- -- -- 8.92 1.07 3.74 1.32 -- -- -- -- -- -- 3.9 .4 -- -- -- 12.56 -- -- -- -- 8.87 .306 -- -- -- 4.3 1.97 2.06 -- -- 2.09 -- -- 3.54 -- 2.09 -- -- -- -- 13.92 1.68 -- -- -- 3.41 .134 -- -- -- 1.42 .6 1.91 -- -- .93 -- -- -- -- .07 -- -- -- -- 4.36 -- -- -- --

TABLE VII.

A B C D

Date. Name. Composer. % of Chorus.

1600 Rappresentatione de Anima Cavalieri 14.39 1675 King Arthur Purcell 21.6 1731 La Serva Padrona Pergolese 10.2 1762 Orfeus Gluck 12.88 1767 Alceste Gluck 18.71 1784 Le Domine Noir Auber 23.19 1787 Don Giovanni Mozart 1.582 1762 L'Amant Jaloux Gretry 6.2 1800 Les Deux Journees Cherubini 36.94 1805 Fidelio Beethoven 14.6 1816 The Barber of Seville Rossini 12.2 1821 Der Freischütz Weber 16.31 1831 La Somnambula Bellini 30.6 1832 Le Postilion Lonjuneaux Adam 26.17 1835 Lucia di Lammermoor Donizetti 35.4 1843 The Bohemian Girl Balfe 24.9 1847 Martha Flotow 25.957 1866 Mignon Thomas 33.75 1867 Romeo and Juliet Gounod 13.72 1874 Aida Verdi 30.1 1875 Carmen Bizet 9.32 1882 Parsifal Wagner 10.31 1887 Smason and Delilah Saint Saens 15.07 1890 Cavalleria Rusticana Mascagni 31.64 1892 Il Pagliacci Leoncavello 19.88 1893 Le Cid Massenet 9.75 1894 Hansel and Gretel Humperdinck 5.38 1896 Cricket on the Hearth Goldmark 5.6 1900 Louise Charpentier 15.51 1904 Madame Butterfly Puccini 10.03 1905 Eugene Onegin Tschaikovsky 15.29 1905 Salome Strauss 11.36 1913 L'Amour dei Tre Re Montemezzi 3.57 1914 Madeleine Herbert --

CHORUS

E F G

% of mixed % of men's % of women's chorus. chorus. chorus.

14.39 -- -- 18.3 2.56 1.14 10.2 -- -- 12.88 -- -- 16.05 2.66 -- 12.7 6.09 4.3 .923 .652 -- -- -- -- 9.14 24.8 -- 8.3 2.71 4.59 12.2 -- -- 12.2 3.15 3.85 30.6 -- -- 13.37 -- 14.85 20.99 15.21 -- 21.32 -- 3.58 19.9 .647 5.41 11.08 3.66 -- 9.03 2.5 2.19 19.74 3.5 9.86 5.29 1.64 2.39 5.1 3.29 1.92 10.43 3.21 1.43 22.78 3.46 5.4 19.88 -- -- 7.29 2.46 -- 1.27 4.21 -- 5.6 -- -- 6.29 4.3 4.96 8.48 .262 1.34 10.47 -- 4.82 11.36 -- -- 2.04 1.53 -- -- -- --

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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1. Apthorpe, W. F. Opera, Past and Present. 2. Dannrheuther, E. Wagner and Reform. 3. Edwards, H. S. Rossini and His School. 4. Gounod, Chas. Mozart's Don Giovanni. 5. Henderson, W. J. Some Forerunners of Opera. 6. Henderson, W. J. A Comment on Opera. 7. Krehbiel, A Book of the Opera. 8. Krehbiel, Studies of Wagnerian Drama. 9. Mendelssohn Stories of the Opera. 10. Newman, E. Gluck and the Opera. 11. Newman, E. Opera. 12. Sonneck, O. G. Early Opera in America. 13. Upton, Geo. P. The Standard Operas. 14. Victor Book of the Operas. 15. Introduction--American History and Encyclopedia. H. E. Krehbiel. 16. Groves Musical Dictionary. Pages 446, 454. 17. Moore Encyclopedia of Music. 18. Naaman Zwillingsbruder. Volume II. 19. Dictionary of Music. Rieman. 20. University Music Encyclopedia. 21. W. B. Matthews. History of Music.

Program Notes.

Chicago Grand Opera Company. Boston Grand Opera Company.

Special Articles in the Programs.

1. Brennon, Algernon St. John. Translating Opera.

2. Haexter, Hermann H., English Grand Opera in America.

3. Hackett, Karleton, (a) Madame Butterfly. (b) Il Trovatore. (c) Faust. (d) Cleopatre. (e) Thais. (f) Thanhauser.

4. Oberdorfer, Anne Faukner, (a) Influence of Wagner. (b) Reforms of Gluck. (c) Monna Vanna. (d) Louise.

Aid has been recieved from the following first hand sources.

I. Interview with Mr. C. C. Birchard of Boston. II. Notes from class in Music II, Summer of 1916. III. Lecture on Modern Music. Thos. Whitney Surrette. IV. Attendance at the various operas for the past six seasons at Chicago.

Magazine Articles.

1913 Atlantic Monthly The Opera Thos. W. Surrette.

Vol. 13. Bookman Opera Season 1900-1901 E. Singleton.

Vol. 29. " Lawrence Gilman on "Chapters of the Opera" by Krehbiel.

Vol. 81. Century Acting in Lyric Drama Mary Garden.

Vol. 89. Contemporary Review "Nicolai Andreyevitch Rimski-Korsakov" A. E. Keeton.

Vol. 13. " " Gluck and Puccini A. E. Keeton.

Vol. 97. " " Two Centuries of French Opera.

Vol. 106. " " Gluck & the Reform of Opera. K. Roof.

1908 Craftsman Nationalism in Opera.

1909 " Elektra in Dresden.

Vol. 39. Current Literature Two New French Operas.

Vol. 48. " " (a) American reception of Elektra. (b) Sorrowful Fate of Librettists.

1909 Etude Frank Moore Jeffery Bellini.

1910 " Future of Italian Opera in America Ant. Scott.

" Modern French and German Opera. Arthur Elson.

" Modern Italian Opera and Tendencies. L. C. Elson.

" Gluck's Operatic Ideas Henry T. Finck.

" Beginnings of Opera " "

" Conflict of Speech and Song Fred Corder.

Vol. 37. Forum Music Joseph Sohn.

Vol. 41. " Lesson from Wagner F. R. Burton.

Vol. 3. Fortnightly Centenary of Wagner Franklin Peterson.

" Moussorgsky's Operas.

1909 " Beaumarchais and Musicians E. Newman.

1913 " Puccini.

Vol. 54. Harper's Weekly Two New Operas L. Gilman.

" Bruneau on Opera.

" Strauss' Electra.

" Tschaikovsky's Queen of Spade

1910 " F. S. Converse.

1910 " Pipe of Desire Gilman.

Vol. 64. Independent Bel Canto Tetrazzini.

Vol. 69. " Future of the Opera Puccini.

Vol. 19. Living Age Music and Modern Opera.

1906 " Apostasy of a Wagnerian E. A. Baugham.

1910 " Electra and the Future of Music Drama.

1910 Literary Digest (a) Our Gilded Opera. (b) Slow Growth of Shakespearean Opera.

1905 Musician New School of Music E. B. Hill.

1908 " Peleas and Melisande " " "

1910 " Group of French and Italian Composers F. H. Marling.

1910 " Synopsis of Modern French Music E. B. Hill.

1911 " (a) Music of Greek Drama (b) Rimski-Korsakov C. A. Browne.

Vol. 18. " Opera as a factor in Music Arthur Wilson.

Vol. 9. Music (a) Wagner (b) Gounod " (a) Boris Godonow A. Pougin. " (b) Balakirew and Borodine " (c) First Greek Drama Arthur Weld. " (d) "Mataswinthe"

Vol. 12 Music Young Russian School A. Pougin.

Vol. 13 " Puccini Alfred Vert.

Vol. 14 " Rimski-Korsakov A. Pougin.

Vol. 39 Nation German and Italian Opera.

Vol. 40 " German Opera in New York.

Vol. 90 " Massenet's Music.

Vol. 96 " Weber.

Vol. 102 " H. T. Finck.

Vol. 102 " (a) Comments on the Metroplitan Season. (b) Shakespearean Operas. (c) Music.

1908 19th Century Music Drama of the Future E. J. Levey.

1887 North American Boucicault and Wagner E. J. Levey.

Vol. 9 New Music Review Les Hugenote Saint Saens.

" " " Puccini Vernon Black.

Vol. 8 " " " At the Opera.

1910 " " " Königskinder.

" " " Natoma.

1910 " " " Cyrano Walter Damrosch.

" " " Conchita Riccardo Zandonai.

1895 Saturday Review Opera and Acting J. F. R.

Vol. 80 " " Weber and Wagner J. F. R.

Vol. 80 " " Italian and German Opera J. F. R.

Vol. 80 " " At the Opera J. F. R.

Vol. 84 " " Concerts at the Opera J. F. R.

Vol. 95 " " Italian Opera J. F. R.

Vol. 43 Review of Reviews } Vol. 40 " " } Opera. Vol. 49 " " }

1898 Scribner's (a) Gluck and Wagner. (b) Tendencies of Modern Opera De Koven. (c) Mozart's Magic Flute.

Vol. 18 World Today Chevalier Gluck and the Leading Motive.