Library of Congress, Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Library of Congress, Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800, Vol. 1: Title CatalogueApplied to musical dramas like Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, the term libretto sounds absurd, but it would be difficult to substitute for the purely practical purpose of naming a catalogue an equally convenient, an equally generic, and at the same time equally specific term. By international consent libretto has come to mean a text that is intended for musical composition, whether it be a text for musical tragedy, comedy or farce, oratorio, sacred or secular cantata. Exactly therein lies the value of this somewhat artificial traditional term for purposes of modern phraseology that it circumscribes with out necessity of further definition one distinctive field of literature, just as Opera, a similarly artificial term, possesses an unmistakable significance. Certainly the combination of the two - Opera-libretto can not be surpassed in terseness of self-explanatory meaning.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.