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EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW DESCRIPTIONS OF THE TEXT AND MUSIC OF SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS MASTERPIECES BY

DOLORES BACON

FOREWORD

CONTENTS

BALFE

BEETHOVEN

BERLIOZ

BIZET

DeKoven

FLOTOW

HUMPERDINCK

MASCAGNI

MEYERBEER

MOZART

SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN

VERDI

WAGNER

FOOTNOTES

Title: Operas Every Child Should Know

Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces

Author: Mary Schell Hoke Bacon

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

Transcriber's Notes:

Click on the [Listen] link to hear a midi file of the music. Lyrics appearing in the music image are set out below the image.

Obvious typographical and musical errors have been corrected.

The cover image was scanned from the 1914 edition published by Doubleday, Page & Company.

The original frontispiece is a poor-quality reproduction of a detail from Arthur Rackham's 1910 painting of BrÜnnhilde. A better-quality reproduction has been used in in its place.

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