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List of plates; Library abbreviations; Introduction Thomas Bauman; PartI. Prologue: 1. Pastoral and musical magic in the birth of opera GaryTomlinson; Part II. Opera and the Visual Arts: 2. Moralizing at the tomb:Poussin's Arcadian shepherds in eighteenth-century England and Germany ThomasBauman; 3. Dr Burney, the bear, and the knight: E. F. Burney's Amateurs ofTye-Wig Music Kerry S. Grant; 4. New light(s) on Weber's Wolf's Glen sceneAnthony Newcomb; Part III. Serious Opera: 5. Sinfonia and drama in earlyeighteenth-century opera seria Reinhard Strohm; 6. The dramatic role of thechorus in French opera: evidence for the use of gesture, 1670-1770 Mary Cyr;7. Transforming opera seria: Verazi's innovations and their impact on operain Italy Marita Petzoldt McClymonds; Part IV. Handel and Gluck: 8. Handel'sSerse Winton Dean; 9. The 'sweet song' in Demofoonte: a Gluck borrowing fromHandel John H. Roberts; 10. Zephire et Flore: a 'galant' early ballet byAngiolini and Gluck Bruce Alan Brown; 11. Gluck's Iphigenia operas: sourcesand strategies Julie E. Cumming; Part V. Concerning Mozart: 12. The 'storm'music of Beaumarchais' Barbier de Seville Walter E. Rex; 13. On Don Giovanni,No. 2 Joseph Kerman; 14. Leopold II, Mozart, and the return to a Golden AgeJohn A. Rice; Part VI. Epilogue: 15. From fairy tale to opera in four moves(not so simple) Richard Taruskin; Index.