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The Cambridge companion to eighteenth-century opera / edited by Anthony R. DelDonna and Pierpaolo Polzonetti.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Description
xxiii, 316 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm
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Mendel Music Library - Reference
ML1704 .C36 2009
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Opera
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18th century
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DelDonna, Anthony
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Polzonetti, Pierpaolo
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Cambridge companions to music
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Summary note
Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source. Viewing opera as a complex and fascinating form of art and social ritual, rather than reducing it simply to music and text analysis, individual essays investigate aspects such as audiences, architecture of the theaters, marketing, acting style, and the politics and strategy of representing class and gender. Overall, the volume provides a synthesis of well established knowledge, reflects recent research on eighteenth-century opera, and stimulates further research. The reader is encouraged to view opera as a cultural phenomenon that can reveal aspects of our culture, both past and present. Eighteenth-century opera is experiencing continuing critical and popular success through innovative and provoking productions world-wide, and this Companion will appeal to opera goers as well as to students and teachers of this key topic.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-307) and index.
Contents
Opera as process / Pierpaolo Polzonetti
Aria as drama / James Webster
Ensembles and finales / Caryl Clark
Metastasio : the dramaturgy of eighteenth-century heroic opera / Francesco Cotticelli and Paologiovanni Maione
Roles and acting / Gianni Cicali
Ballet / Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Orchestra and voice in eighteenth-century Italian opera / John Spitzer
To look again (at Don Giovanni) / Alessandra Campana
Genre and form in French opera / David Charlton
Genre and form in German opera / Estelle Joubert
Opera in eighteenth-century England : English opera, masques, ballad operas / Michael Burden
Opera in Naples / Anthony R. DelDonna
Portugal and Brazil / Manuel Carlos de Brito
Opera, genre, and context in Spain and its American colonies / Louise K. Stein and Jóse Máximo Leza.
Aria as drama/ James Webster
Opera in Naples /Anthony R. DelDonna
Portugal and Brazil / Manuel Carlosde Brito
Opera, genre, and context in Spain and its American colonies / Louise K. Stein and J鈕se M鈇ximo Leza.
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ISBN
9780521873581 ((hbk.))
0521873584 ((hbk.))
9780521695381 ((pbk.))
0521695384 ((pbk.))
9781139002585 ((ebook))
1139002589
LCCN
2009008250
OCLC
311310272
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