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Author Hunter, Mary Kathleen, 1951-

Title The culture of opera buffa in Mozart's Vienna : a poetics of entertainment / Mary Hunter.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1999]
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 331 pages) : music.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Princeton studies in opera
Princeton studies in opera.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-322) and index.
Contents pt. 1. Opera Buffa as Entertainment. Ch. 1. Opera Buffa as Sheer Pleasure. Ch. 2. Opera Buffa's Conservative Frameworks. Ch. 3. Opera Buffa's Social Reversals -- pt. 2. Closed Musical Numbers of Opera Buffa and Their Social Implications. Ch. 4. Arias: Some Issues. Ch. 5. Class and Gender in Arias: Five Aria Types. Ch. 6. Ensembles. Ch. 7. Beginning and Ending Together: Introduzioni and Finales -- pt. 3. Cosi Fan Tutte le Opere? A Masterwork in Context. Ch. 8. Cosi fan tutte in Conversation. Ch. 9. Cosi fan tutte and Convention. App. 1. Operas Consulted -- App. 2. Musical Forms in Opera Buffa Arias -- App. 3. Plot Summaries for I finti eredi, Le gare generose, and L'incognita perseguitata.
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Subject Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Operas.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Operas (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
Opera -- Austria -- Vienna -- 18th century.
Opera.
Austria -- Vienna.
Chronological Term 18th century
1700 - 1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Hunter, Mary Kathleen, 1951- Culture of opera buffa in Mozart's Vienna. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999 0691058121 (DLC) 98012583 (OCoLC)38304648
ISBN 1400812151 (electronic book)
9781400812158 (electronic book)
0691058121 (cl ; alkaline paper)
9780691058122 (cl ; alkaline paper)