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1 online resource |
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Lo scherno degli dei : myth and derision in the dramma per musica of the seventeenth century / Jean-François Lattarico -- Helpings from the great banquets of epic : Handel's Teseo, and Arianna in Creta / Robert C. Ketterer -- Envoicing the divine : oracles in lyric and spoken drama in seventeenth-century France / Geoffrey Burgess -- Addressing the divine : the 'numinous' accompagnato in opera seria / Bruno Forment -- Iphigenia's curious Menange à trois in myth, drama, and opera / Reinhard Strohm -- Spectatorship and involvement in Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride / Bram van Oostveldt |
| Summary |
Throughout the Ancien Régime, mythology played a vital role in opera, defining such epoch-making works as Claudio Monteverdi's 'La favola d'Orfeo' (1607) and Christoph Gluck's 'Iphigénie en Tauride' (1779). The operatic presence of the Greco-Roman gods and heroes was anything but unambiguous or unproblematic, however. This book highlights myth's chameleonic life in the Italian 'dramma per musica' and French 'tragédie en musique' of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Opera -- France -- 17th century
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Opera -- France -- 18th century.
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Opera -- Italy.
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Mythology, Classical, in opera.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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MUSIC -- Reference.
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MUSIC -- General.
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Mythology, Classical, in opera
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Opera
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France
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Italy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Forment, Bruno
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| ISBN |
9789461660572 |
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946166057X |
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