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List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Winton Dean Philip Radcliffe; 2.Political allegory in late-seventeenth-century English opera Curtis A.Price; 3. Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus: a 'serenata a tre voci'? BrianTrowell; 4. George I's venetian palace and theatre boxes in the 1720sColin Timms; 5. Vivaldi's and Handel's settings of Giustino ReinhardStrohm; 6. Handel and Charles Jennens's Italian opera manuscripts JohnH. Roberts; 7. Handel, Jennens and Saul: aspects of a collaborationAnthony Hicks; 8. 'L'art dramatico-musical': an essay David Charlton;9. Mendelssohn's operas John Warrack; 10. Wagnerian tendencies inItalian opera Julian Budden; 11. The cathartic slow waltz and otherfinale conventions in Janacek's operas John Tyrrell; 12. Grimes andLucretia Philip Brett; 13. A bibliography of the writings of WintonDean Stephen Dean.