The University of North Carolina Press is proud to announce Howard Smither's ground-breaking four-volume A History of the Oratorio, are now available in one con

With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio. Volumes 1 and 2, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1977,

This is the third volume of Professor Smither's four-volume History of the Oratorio, the first two of which, on the Baroque era, are still available from the Un