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What is opera and how does it work? How has this dramatic form developed and what is its relevance in the modern world? Perfect for music students and opera-goers, this introductory guide addresses these questions and many more, exploring opera as a complete theatrical experience. Organised chronolo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Cambridge introductions to music.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Part I : The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Pre-operatic forms
- First operatic forms
- Formalisation
- Reform : the reintegration of elements
- Comedy and the 'real world'
- Authentic performance
- Part II : The nineteenth century. Romanticism and romantic opera in Germany
- Opera in nineteenth-century Italy
- Grand opéra and the visual language of opera
- The Wagnerian revolution
- Nationalists : vernacular language and music
- The role of the singer
- Part III : The twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The turn of the century and the crisis in opera
- First modernism : Symbolist and Expressionist opera
- The dramaturgy of opera : libretto
- words and structures
- Narrative opera : realistic and non-realistic
- Radical narratives
- Directors and the direction of opera.
