Opera and the Enlightenment
1995; Musical Times Publications; Volume: 136; Issue: 1831 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1003727
ISSN2397-5318
AutoresPatricia Howard, Thomas Bauman, Marita P. McClymonds,
Tópico(s)Theater, Performance, and Music History
ResumoList of plates Library abbreviations Introduction Thomas Bauman Part I. Prologue: 1. Pastoral and musical magic in the birth of opera Gary Tomlinson Part II. Opera and the Visual Arts: 2. Moralizing at the tomb: Poussin's Arcadian shepherds in eighteenth-century England and Germany Thomas Bauman 3. Dr Burney, the bear, and the knight: E. F. Burney's Amateurs of Tye-Wig Music Kerry S. Grant 4. New light(s) on Weber's Wolf's Glen scene Anthony Newcomb Part III. Serious Opera: 5. Sinfonia and drama in early eighteenth-century opera seria Reinhard Strohm 6. The dramatic role of the chorus in French opera: evidence for the use of gesture, 1670-1770 Mary Cyr 7. Transforming opera seria: Verazi's innovations and their impact on opera in Italy Marita Petzoldt McClymonds Part IV. Handel and Gluck: 8. Handel's Serse Winton Dean 9. The 'sweet song' in Demofoonte: a Gluck borrowing from Handel John H. Roberts 10. Zephire et Flore: a 'galant' early ballet by Angiolini and Gluck Bruce Alan Brown 11. Gluck's Iphigenia operas: sources and strategies Julie E. Cumming Part V. Concerning Mozart: 12. The 'storm' music of Beaumarchais' Barbier de Seville Walter E. Rex 13. On Don Giovanni, No. 2 Joseph Kerman 14. Leopold II, Mozart, and the return to a Golden Age John A. Rice Part VI. Epilogue: 15. From fairy tale to opera in four moves (not so simple) Richard Taruskin Index.
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