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Opera in seventeenth-century Venice : the creation of a genre /
Ellen Rosand shows how opera, born of courtly entertainment, took root in the special social and economic environment of seventeenth-century Venice and there developed the stylistic and aesthetic characteristics we recognize as opera today. With ninety-one music examples, most of them complete piece...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©1991.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Far recitare un'opera a Venezia : origins and sources. Venetian foundations ; Monteverdi in the wings ; Orfeo and Poppea ; The documents of a history
- Dramma per musica : the question of genre. The Accademia degli Incogniti ; Music and drama ; Dramatic structure : the unities ; Division into acts ; Chorus ; Modern taste and ethics ; Subject matter
- Da rappresentare in musica : the rise of commercial opera. The beginning of competition ; The scenario and the libretto ; The teatro novissimo
- La finta pazza : mirror of an audience
- All'immortalità del nome di Venetia : the serenissima on stage. The myth of Venice ; The reality of Venice
- La nausea di chi ascolta : the consequences of success. Making histories ; Giovanni Faustini, "librettist" ; Faustini's heirs ; Marco Faustini, impresario ; Marco's guerra dei teatri
- I compositori scenici : librettist and composer. Collaborative talents ; Librettists' tribulations ; Composers' obligations
- I più canori cigni e le suavissime sirene : the singers. The wages of singing ; The prima donna ; Primi uomini ed altre ; Singing and/or acting
- Gran dicerie e canzonette : recitative and aria. The Florentine background ; Venetian conservatism ; Monteverdi and his collaborators ; Busenello and Cavalli ; Cavalli and Faustini ; Cavalli and Cicognini ; Cicognini's legacy
- Il diletto : aria, drama, and the emergence of formal conventions. The bipartite aria ; Tripartite forms
- Le convenienze teatrali : the conventions of dramma per musica. The comic aria ; The trumpet aria ; The music scene ; The love duet ; Sleep ; Invocation ; Madness
- Il lamento : the fusion of music and drama. The recitative model ; The strophic lament ; The descending tetrachord : an emblem of lament ; The lament aria : variations on a theme
- Il ritorno d'Orfeo : the decline of a tradition. Il volgo tumultuario ; In defense of decorum ; Ivanovich's history and criticism ; Tradition and revival
- Appendix I : Librettos
- Appendix II : Treatises, critical and historical accounts
- Appendix III : Correspondence and documents.