Opera From The Greek: Studies in the Poetics of Appropriation
2008; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 30; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/08145857.2008.10416735
ISSN1949-453X
Autores Tópico(s)Renaissance Literature and Culture
ResumoAbstract Opera is the adaptive art form par excellence and throughout its history has been voracious in drawing on myth and literature in many forms. The raison d'être for its development was the desire to revivify Greek drama, ‘rediscovered’ during the Renaissance. The Florentine Camerata of the late sixteenth century saw as their project the development of a musico-dramatic form that would find a method of ‘authentically’ performing dramatic works from Greek antiquity, but also as a means of bringing them to life for a contemporary audience. As part of this project they were also intent on reforming musical practice after the excesses, in their eyes, of Renaissance polyphony, as well as a desire to find a ‘pure’, monodic form that would both serve the needs of the drama as well as provide vocal textual clarity.
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