Opera and the Enlightenment / edited by Thomas Bauman and Marita Petzoldt McClymonds.
| Other author | Bauman, Thomas, 1948- editor. |
| Other author | McClymonds, Marita P., editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995. |
| Description | xiii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Thomas Bauman -- Prologue. Pastoral and musical magic in the birth of opera / Gary Tomlinson -- Opera and the visual arts. Moralizing at the tomb: Poussin's Arcadian shepherds in eighteenth-century England and Germany / Thomas Bauman -- Dr. Burney, the bear, and the knight: E.F. Burney's Amateurs of Tye-Wig Music / Kerry S. Grant -- New light(s) on Weber's Wolf's Glen Scene / Anthony Newcomb -- Serious opera. Sinfonia and drama in early eighteenth-century opera seria / Reinhard Strohm -- The dramatic role of the chorus in French opera: evidence for the use of gesture, 1670-1770 / Mary Cyr -- Transforming opera seria: Verazi's innovations and their impact on opera in Italy / Marita Petzoldt McClymonds -- Handel and Gluck. Handel's Serse / Winton Dean -- The "sweet song" in Demofoonte: a Gluck borrowing from Handel / John H. Roberts -- Zéphire et Flore: a "galant" early ballet by Angiolini and Gluck / Bruce Alan Brown -- Gluck's Iphigenia operas: sources and strategies / Julie E. Cumming -- Concerning Mozart: 12. The "storm" music of Beaumarchais' Barbier de Séville / Walter E. Rex -- On Don Giovanni, No. 2 / Joseph Kerman -- Leopold II, Mozart, and the return to a Golden Age / John A. Rice -- Epilogue. From fairy tale to opera in four moves (not so simple) / Richard Taruskin. |
| Abstract | This is the first collection of essays to explore the wide dimensions and influence of eighteenth-century opera. In a series of fresh articles by leading scholars in the field, new perspectives are offered on the important figures of the day, including Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck, Rameau, and Mozart, and on the fundamental problems of creation, revision, borrowing, influence, and intertextuality. Other essays reinterpret librettos of serious opera in the French and Italian theater during the later eighteenth century. Sister arts, notably painting, the novel, ballet, and the spoken stage are also examined in their relationship to the development of opera. Bracketing the collection are studies of the early pastoral opera and of Prokofief, which expand our historical view of operatic life during the Age of Reason. The book contains numerous rare illustrations, and will be of interest to scholars and students of opera and theater history. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 94011009 |
| ISBN | 0521461723 |
| ISBN | 9780521461726 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML1720.3 .O64 1995 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |