| Description |
1 online resource (300 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Cambridge Studies in Opera
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Cambridge studies in opera.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Figures; Music examples; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on editorial method; A prologue on genre; Against genre; How genres exist; Families; The critic's genre; 1 Pamela goes to the opera; The third genre; Painful delights: Richardson's Pamela; Interiors: Goldoni's La Pamela; The most perfect of opere buffe: Goldoni and Piccinni's La buona figliuola; 2 The emergence of bourgeois drama; Indecorous liaisons; Of tales of private woe, and poems in prose; Comédie larmoyante, tragédie bourgeoise; Why 'bourgeois'?; 3 The codification of bourgeois drama; Diderot's genre moyen. |
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TableauxDiderotians; Mixed, median, monstrous; 4 Opera as drame; Mercier the dramaturge; On 'drame' and the use of words; Two déserteurs, or virtue rewarded and virtue chastised; Three Venetian disertori; 5 Sensibility and the moral cure; Sentiment and sensibility; In the labyrinth of the 'folles par amour'; Moral cure and absorption; A salon, a lodge, a circle; 6 A sentimental opera; An epoch-making experiment; A Utopian fantasy; Sentimental settings; To listen for the sentiment; 7 Sentimental, anti-sentimental; A perpetual interplay; Figaro's family; Society and its discontents; Dissonances. |
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8 AvenuesThe weeds of opera; Matters of degree; A Muse of its own; The encoding of life; The waning of sensibility; Appendix: Bartolomeo Benincasa's preface to Il disertore (1784); References; Books, articles and other literature; Eighteenth-century periodicals; Plays; Librettos; Scores; Index. |
| Summary |
Castelvecchi presents a critical re-evaluation of the operatic genre system and the cult of sensibility in the age of Mozart. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Opera -- 18th century.
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Opera. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Domestic drama -- History and criticism.
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Domestic drama. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Castelvecchi, Stefano. Sentimental Opera : Questions of Genre in the Age of Bourgeois Drama. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2013 9780521632140 |
| ISBN |
9780511980244 (electronic book) |
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0511980248 (electronic book) |
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9781107471757 (electronic book) |
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1107471753 (electronic book) |
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9781461945055 (electronic book) |
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1461945054 (electronic book) |
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9781107464667 |
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9780521632140 (print) |
| Standard No. |
99955861133 |
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