Opera and Sovereignty : Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy /

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Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that...

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Autor principal: Feldman, Martha (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2010]
Temas:
MUSIC / General.
opera, handel, haydn, mozart, social change, monarchy, political power, sovereignty, italy, form, ritual, rulers, dance, theater, music, performing arts, anthropology, enlightenment, history, politics, nonfiction, arias, parma, festivity, rome, naples, exchange, apocalypse, empire, caesar, brutus, joan of arc, alexander the great, valentian iii, hadrian, artaxerxes, arbaces, mythology, divinity, ridicule, laughter, themistocles, truth, bourgeoisie, la morte di mitridate, audience.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Editorial Principles
  • 1. Evenings at the Opera
  • 2. Arias: Form, Feeling, Exchange
  • 3. Programming Nature, Parma, 1759: First Case Study
  • 4. Festivity and Time
  • 5. Abandonments in a Theater State, Naples, 1764: Second Case Study
  • 6. Myths of Sovereignty
  • 7. Bourgeois Theatrics, Perugia, 1781: Third Case Study
  • 8. Morals and Malcontents
  • 9. Death of the Sovereign, Venice, 1797: Fourth Case Study
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • Index

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