| Description |
xxvi, 553 pages : illustration, facsimiles, music ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Ashgate library of essays in opera studies ; [v. 3]
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Ashgate library of essays in opera studies ; v. 3.
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| Note |
Essays and articles reprinted from a variety of sources. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages xxi-xxvi) index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Aesthetics and dramaturgy -- The theory and practice of piccinnisme / Julian Rushton -- Recitative and dramaturgy in the dramma per musica / Raymond Monelle -- Opera versus drama : Romeo and Juliet in 18th-century Germany / Thomas Bauman -- Mozart's operas and the myth of musical unity / James Webster -- -- pt. II. Singers -- Raaff's last aria : a Mozartian idyll in the spirit of Hasse / Daniel Heartz -- Galuppi, Tenducci, and Motezuma : a commentary on the history and musical style of opera seria after 1750 / Dale E. Monson -- "Ich bin die erste Sängerin" : vocal profiles of two Mozart sopranos / Patricia Lewy Gidwitz -- Mozart's Ilia and Elettra : new perspectives on Idomeneo / Paul Corneilson -- -- pt. III. Sensibility, sentiment, and the pastoral -- Pamela : the offspring of Richardson's heroine in eighteenth-century opera / Mary Hunter -- Human nature in the unnatural garden : Figaro as pastoral / Wye J. Allanbrook -- From Nina to Nina : psychodrama, absorption, and sentiment in the 1780s / Stefano Castelvecchi -- L'arbore di Diana : a model for Così fan tutte / Dorothea Link -- The sentimental muse of opera buffa / Edmund J. Goehring -- -- pt. IV. Orientalism and exoticism -- Mozart in Turkey / Benjamin Perl -- Oriental tyranny in the extreme West : reflections on Amiti e Ontario and Le gare generose / Pierpaolo Polzonetti -- -- pt. V. Opera and politics -- On the freedom of the theatre and censorship : the Adrien controversy (1792) / Elizabeth C. Bartlet -- Songs to shape a German nation : Hiller's comic operas and the public sphere / Estelle Joubert -- -- pt. VI. Mozart and his Viennese contemporaries -- Mozart's fee for Così fan tutte / Dexter Edge -- How original was Mozart? : evidence from opera buffa / John Platoff -- Salieri's Così fan tutte / Bruce Alan Brown and John A.Rice -- Die Zauberflöte, Masonic opera, and other fairy tales, David J. Buch -- -- pt. VII. Opera seria -- The Venetian role in the transformation of Italian opera seria during the 1790s / Marita P. McClymonds -- Mozart, Mayr, Rossini and the development of the opera seria duet : some preliminary conclusions / Scott L. Balthazar -- La clemenza di Tito and other two-act reductions of the late 18th century / Sergio Durante -- The absent mother in opera seria / Martha Feldman -- Producing the operatic chorus at Parma's Teatro Ducale, 1759-1769 / Margaret R. Butler. |
| Subject |
Opera -- 18th century.
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Opera. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Added Author |
Rice, John A.
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| ISBN |
9780754629047 hardback |
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075462904X hardback |
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