title: Opera: A Research and Information Guide (Routledge Music Bibliographies)
author:  Guy A. Marco 
description: I find this an absolutely essential research tool. The best proof I can give is that I have room for exactly three books on opera in the tiny book shelf on my PC work-station, and that this is one of them.<br /><b>Tom Kaufman, The Opera Quarterly, summer 2002</b><br /><br />This effort surpasses the first edition in content, quality, and design.<br /><b>Choice</b><br /><br />An essential reference tool for all academic libraries as well as public libraries.<br /><b><i>Choice</i> _</b><br /><br />[e]xtremely useful annotated bibliography....[Marco] deserves thanks for the enormous amount of research expended on [this] project.<br /><b><i>Opera Quarterly</i></b>
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  # How to Listen to Music, 7th ed.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Henry Edward Krehbiel
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  How to Listen to Music
  
  
    
  I. Introduction
  
  
    
  II. Recognition of Musical Elements
  
  
    
  III. The Content and Kinds of Music
  
  
    
  IV. The Modern Orchestra
  
  
    
  V. At an Orchestral Concert
  
  
    
  VI. At a Pianoforte Recital
  
  
    
  VII. At the Opera
  
  
    
  VIII. Choirs and Choral Music
  
  
    
  IX. Musician, Critic, and Public
  
  
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      How to Listen to Music, 7th ed.
  
  
  Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art
  
  
  
  
      
  
  Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Linda Cantoni, and the
  
  
  Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  HOW TO LISTEN TO MUSIC
  
  
  HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS TO UNTAUGHT LOVERS OF THE ART
  
  
  BY
  
  
  HENRY EDWARD KREHBIEL
  
  
  _Author of “Studies in the Wagnerian Drama,” “Notes on the
  
  
  Cultivation of Choral Music,” “The Philharmonic Society of New York,”
  
  
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