Opera''s Orbit - Musical Drama and the Influence of Opera in Arcadian Rome

Informationen zum Autor Stefanie Tcharos is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she specializes in early modern Italian opera and related dramatic vocal music, issues of aesthetics, cultural history, and genre theory. She has published articles and reviews in the Journal of Musicology, the Cambridge Opera Journal, and Music and Letters, and was a contributor to The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music (2009). Klappentext Tcharos illustrates opera's engagement in a larger musical sphere of Arcadian Rome, where opera inspired debate and fuelled ideological reform. Zusammenfassung Tcharos captures opera within the vibrant yet problematic context of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Arcadian Rome. She reconstructs opera's critical turn by engaging opera within a larger cultural sphere! where tensions and relations with other musico-dramatic genres illuminate opera's revisionist role in social! political! and aesthetic conflicts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Opera's orbit; 1. Enclosures, crises, polemics: opera production in 1690s Arcadian Rome; 2. Disrupting the oratorio; 3. The serenata's discourses of duality; 4. The cantata, the pastoral, and the ideology of nostalgia; 5. Epilogue.

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• Authors: Stefanie Tcharos, Stefanie (University of California Tcharos, Tcharos Stefanie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521116657
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11665-7
• No. of pages: 334
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Opera, baroque, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)