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currentmusicology-3798	Grout, Donald Jay	Some Desiderata and Goals for the Study of 18th-Century Italian Opera	2019	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1227	59	61	Until such editions are available for at least a few composers beyond Handel, Gluck, and Mozart, we shall be in the position that, whatever general statements we may make about the history of Italian opera in this period, it will be almost literally the case that we don't know what we are talking about. Nevertheless, I shall list them, in the hope that someone who wants to earn the everlasting gratitude of his contemporary and future colleagues in the field of opera history may be moved to undertake one or another, or part of one or another, of the following publications: .	cache/currentmusicology-3798.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-3798.txt