| Description |
xvi, 335 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Opera series ; no. 1
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Opera series (Pendragon Press) ; no. 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Opera buffa. Vis comica : Goldoni, Galuppi, and L'Arcadia in Brenta ; The creation of the buffo finale ; Goldoni, opera buffa, and Mozart's advent in Vienna -- Opera seria. Metastasio, "Maestro dei maestri di capella drammatici" ; Hasse, Galuppi, and Metastasio ; Farinelli and Metastasio : rival twins of public favour ; Farinelli revisited : from the sublime to the ridiculous -- Opéra-comique. Terpsichore at the fair : old and new dance airs in two Vaudeville comedies by Lesage ; Watteau's Italian comedians ; The beggar's opera and opéra-comiques en vaudevilles ; The beginnings of the operatic romance : Rousseau, Sedaine, and Monsigny -- The querelle des bouffons. Grimm's Le petit prophëte de Boemischbroda ; Italian by intention, French of necessity : Rousseau's Le devin de village ; Diderot and the lyric theater : "the new style proposed by Le neveu de Rameau -- Reform opera. From Garrick to Gluck : the reform of theater and opera in the mid-eighteenth century ; Traetta in Parma : Ippolito ed Aricia ; Traetta in Vienna : Armida and Ifigenia in Tauride ; Orfeo ed Euridice : some criticisms, revisions, and stage realizations during Gluck's lifetime. |
| Subject |
Opera -- 18th century.
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Opera. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Enlightenment.
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Enlightenment. |
| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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Festschriften.
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| Added Author |
Rice, John A.
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| ISBN |
1576470814 alkaline paper |
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