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The Singing Turk

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

The Singing Turk

By Larry Wolff

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About the book

While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a series of works, including The Italian Girl in Algiers. And these are only the best known of a vast repertory. This book explores how these representations of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, the great nemesis of Christian...Show more

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9781503608238

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Stanford University Press

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2018

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1

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The Singing Turk

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Paperback

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