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Seventeenth-century opera and the sound of the commedia dell'arte / Emily Wilbourne.
Author
Wilbourne, Emily
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
©2016
Description
229 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
ML1733.2 .W55 2016
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Opera
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Italy
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17th century
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Commedia dell'arte
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History and criticism
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Commedia dell'arte
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Influence
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Summary note
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.
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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.
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17th century opera and the sound of the commedia dell'arte
XVII century opera and the sound of the commedia dell'arte
ISBN
9780226401577 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
022640157X
LCCN
2016033174
OCLC
944087620
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