| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. The tragedies and comedies recited by the Zanni -- The commedia dell'arte as theater -- "Ma meglio di tutti Arianna comediante" -- The serious elements of early comic opera -- Penelope and Poppea as stock figures of the commedia dell'arte -- Conclusion. Seventeenth-century opera and the sound of the commedia dell'arte. |
| Summary |
In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell'arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages of Venice more than fifty years later. Wilbourne considers a series of case studies structured around the most important and widely explored operas of the period: Monteverdi's lost L'Arianna, as well as his Il Ritorno d'Ulisse and L'incoronazione di Poppea; Mazzochi and Marazzoli's L'Egisto, ovvero Chi soffre speri; and Cavalli's L'Ormindo and L'Artemisia. As she demonstrates, the sound-in-performance aspect of commedia dell'arte theater specifically, the use of dialect and verbal play produced an audience that was accustomed to listening to sonic content rather than simply the literal meaning of spoken words. This, Wilbourne suggests, shaped the musical vocabularies of early opera and facilitated a musicalization of Italian theater. Highlighting productive ties between the two worlds, from the audiences and venues to the actors and singers, this work brilliantly shows how the sound of commedia performance ultimately underwrote the success of opera as a genre. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Opera -- Italy -- 17th century.
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Opera. |
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Italy. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
Commedia dell'arte -- History and criticism.
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Commedia dell'arte. |
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Commedia dell'arte -- Influence.
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Commedia dell'arte -- Characters.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice. |
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MUSIC -- Lyrics. |
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
17th century opera and the sound of the commedia dell'arte |
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XVII century opera and the sound of the commedia dell'arte |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Wilbourne, Emily. Seventeenth-century opera and the sound of the commedia dell'arte. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016 9780226401577 (DLC) 2016033174 (OCoLC)944087620 |
| ISBN |
9780226401607 (electronic book) |
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022640160X (electronic book) |
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9780226401577 |
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022640157X |
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