Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 316 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781139002585
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to music
Content:
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
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015)
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Opera as process
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Aria as drama
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Ensembles and finales
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Metastasio : the dramaturgy of eighteenth-century heroic opera
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Roles and acting
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Ballet
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Orchestra and voice in eighteenth-century Italian opera
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To look again (at Don Giovanni)
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Genre and form in French opera
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Genre and form in German opera
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Opera in eighteenth-century England : English opera, masques, ballad operas
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Opera in Naples
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Portugal and Brazil
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Opera, genre, and context in Spain and its American colonies
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521873581
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521695381
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521873581
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CCOL9780521873581
