Great Singers — Second Series
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- Great Singers — Second Series
- Author
- George T. Ferris
- Language
- English
- Type
- Collective singer biography / opera performance history
- Notes
- Second series in Ferris’s Great Singers collection.
SCOPE & CONTENT
The second series extends Ferris’s gallery of singers and further documents the transnational operatic world in which reputations circulated between Italian, French, German, British and American stages.
RESEARCH VALUE
Used together with the first series, it offers a broad source for the social history of singing, celebrity and repertory transmission in the nineteenth century.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT
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RESEARCH VALUE AND LIMITS
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- Catalogue completeness
- 3 / 10 core bibliographic fields