Which Italian word meaning ‘little book’ is applied to the text of an opera?
Little Women (opera) Little Women (opera) Little Women (1998) is the first opera written by American composer Mark Adamo to his own libretto after Louisa May Alcott's tale of growing up in New England after the American Civil War, "Little Women". The opera also includes text by John Bunyan (Beth's setting of "The Pilgrim's Progress"), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dr. Bhaer sings "Kennst du das Land"), and Alcott herself (an excerpt of one of her thrillers at the beginning of Act II, which is spoken and mostly omitted on the audio recording). Commissioned by the Opera Studio of Houston Grand Opera (HGO), then
Meaning-text theory Meaning-text theory Meaning-text theory (MTT) is a theoretical linguistic framework, first put forward in Moscow by Aleksandr Žolkovskij and Igor Mel’čuk, for the construction of models of natural language. The theory provides a large and elaborate basis for linguistic description and, due to its formal character, lends itself particularly well to computer applications, including machine translation, phraseology, and lexicography. General overviews of the theory can be found in Mel’čuk (1981) and (1988). Linguistic models in MTT operate on the principle that language consists in a mapping from the content or meaning (semantics) of an utterance to its form or text