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Massenet and His Operas

Henry T. Finck
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Henry T. Finck. Massenet and His Operas. New York: John Lane Company, 1910.
Title
Massenet and His Operas
Author
Henry T. Finck
Publisher
John Lane Company
Place
New York
Year
1910
Extent
illustrated critical study
Language
English
Type
Opera biography / works study

SCOPE & CONTENT

Published in New York in 1910, this volume belongs to the historical literature through which musicians, critics and teachers organized knowledge about its subject. Its value in Classical Archive is not only bibliographic: the dossier records the edition identity, principal responsibility, publication context and the work's likely research role, while keeping the physical document unchanged.

RESEARCH VALUE

For present-day research, Massenet and His Operas is most useful when read simultaneously as a source on its stated subject and as evidence of the assumptions of its own period. Terminology, canon formation and critical judgements may reflect early twentieth-century or late nineteenth-century priorities; these features are therefore documented rather than silently modernized. Search aliases include common shortened forms of both title and author so that the record remains discoverable even when a PDF filename is incomplete.

EDITION AND CONTENT

The record identifies the historical edition at title-author-publisher-place-year level and preserves the stated physical extent where it can be established. The work is classified as opera biography / works study, allowing it to be retrieved both by person and by subject rather than depending on the attachment filename alone.

HISTORIOGRAPHICAL USE

The dossier distinguishes historical evidence from current scholarly consensus. Older terminology and aesthetic judgements are retained as attributes of the source, while the catalogue note explicitly encourages comparison with later critical editions, archival studies and modern scholarship.

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