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1 online resource (580 pages) |
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Ashgate Library of Essays in Opera Studies ; v. 3 |
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Ashgate library of essays in opera studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series Preface; Introduction; PART I AESTHETICS AND DRAMATURGY; 1 The Theory and Practice of Piccinnisme; 2 Recitative and Dramaturgy in the Dramma per Musica; 3 Opera versus Drama: Romeo and Juliet in Eighteenth-Century Germany; 4 Mozart's Operas and the Myth of Musical Unity; PART II SINGERS; 5 Raaff's Last Aria: A Mozartian Idyll in the Spirit of Hasse; 6 Galuppi, Tenducci, and Motezuma: A Commentary on the History and Musical Style of Opera Seria after 1750 |
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7 ""Ich bin die erste Sängerin": Vocal Profiles of Two Mozart Sopranos8 Mozart's Ilia and Elettra: New Perspectives on Idomeneo; PART III SENSIBILITY, SENTIMENT AND THE PASTORAL; 9 "Pamela": The Offspring of Richardson's Heroine in Eighteenth-Century Opera; 10 Human Nature in the Unnatural Garden: Figaro as Pastoral; 11 From Nina to Nina: Psychodrama, Absorption and Sentiment in the 1780s; 12 L'arbore di Diana: A Model for Così fan tutte; 13 The Sentimental Muse of Opera Buffa; PART IV ORIENTALISM AND EXOTICISM; 14 Mozart in Turkey |
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15 Oriental Tyranny in the Extreme West: Reflections on Amiti e Ontario and Le gare generosePART V OPERA AND POLITICS; 16 On the Freedom of the Theatre and Censorship: The Adrien Controversy (1792); 17 Songs to Shape a German Nation: Hiller's Comic Operas and the Public Sphere; PART VI MOZART AND HIS VIENNESE CONTEMPORARIES; 18 Mozart's Fee for Così fan tutte; 19 How Original was Mozart? Evidence from Opera Buffa; 20 Salieri's Così fan tutte; 21 Die Zauberflöte, Masonic Opera, and Other Fairy Tales; PART VII OPERA SERIA |
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22 The Venetian Role in the Transformation of Italian Opera Seria during the 1790s23 Mayr, Rossini, and the Development of the Opera Seria Duet: Some Preliminary Conclusions; 24 La clemenza di Tito and Other Two-Act Reductions of the Late 18th Century; 25 The Absent Mother in Opera Seria; 26 Producing the Operatic Chorus at Parma's Teatro Ducale, 1759-1769; Name Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Marvin, Professor Roberta Montemorra
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| ISBN |
9781351567886 |
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1351567888 |
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