Ombra Supernatural Music in Tpb

Ombra is the musical language employed when a composer wishes to inspire awe and terror in an audience. Clive McClelland's Ombra: Supernatural Music in the Eighteenth Century explores the large repertoire of such music, focusing on the eighteenth century and Mozart in particular. He discusses a wide range of examples drawn from theatrical and sacred music, eventually drawing parallels between these features and Edmund Burke's 'sublime of terror,' thus placing ombra music in an important position in the context of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory.

List of contents

Introduction
Abbreviations
Chapter One - Ombra Music in Context
Chapter Two - Opera: Tonality and Key Characteristics
Chapter Three - Opera: Harmony and Line
Chapter Four - Opera: Tempo and Rhythm
Chapter Five - Opera: Texture, Dynamics, and Instrumentation
Chapter Six - Opera: Case Studies
Chapter Seven - Sacred Music (including Case Studies)
Chapter Eight - Instrumental Music (including Case Studies)
Chapter Nine - Ombra after Mozart
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Clive McClelland is associate professor of music at the University of Leeds, West Yorkshire

Product details

• Authors: Clive McClelland, McClelland Clive
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2013
• EAN: 9780739188170
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-8817-0
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, MUSIC / Ethnic, Opera, World Music, Theory of music & musicology, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Other global and regional music styles, Theory of music and musicology, Western "classical" music