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Mozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now-popular operas has received little critical attention. In this richly detailed book, Mary Hunter offers a sweeping, synthetic view of opera buffa in the lively theatrical world of late-eighteenth-century Vienna. Opera buffa (Italian-language comic opera) persistently entertained audiences at a time when Joseph was striving for a German national theater. Hunter attributes opera buffa's success to its ability to provide "sheer" pleasure and hence explores how the genre functioned as entertainment. She argues that opera buffa, like mainstream film today, projects a social world both recognizable and distinct from reality. It raises important issues while containing them in the "merely entertaining" frame of the occasion, as well as presenting them as a series of easily identifiable dramatic and musical conventions. Exploring nearly eighty comic operas, Hunter shows how the arias and ensembles convey a multifaceted picture of the repertory's social values and habits. In a concluding chapter, she discusses Cos" fan tutte as a work profoundly concerned with the conventions of its repertory and with the larger idea of convention itself and reveals the ways Mozart and da Ponte pointedly converse with their immediate contemporaries.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Operas. --- Opera -- Austria -- Vienna -- 18th century. --- Opera, Comic --- Opera --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, --- Comic opera --- Lyric drama --- Operas --- Drama --- Dramatic music --- Singspiel --- History and criticism --- Austria --- Vienna (Austria) --- 18th century --- E-books --- Theatrical science --- anno 1500-1599 --- Vienna

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Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation as one of the towering figures of Western music history. This lively collection builds upon this resurgence of interest, with chapters exploring the nature of Haydn's invention and the cultural forces that he both absorbed and helped to shape and express. The volume addresses Haydn's celebrated instrumental pieces, the epoch-making Creation and many lesser-known but superb vocal works including the Masses, the English canzonettas and Scottish songs and the operas L'isola disabitata and L'anima del filosofo. Topics range from Haydn's rondo forms to his violin fingerings, from his interpretation of the Credo to his reading of Ovid's Metamorphoses, from his involvement with national music to his influence on the emerging concept of the musical work. Haydn emerges as an engaged artist in every sense of the term, as remarkable for his critical response to the world around him as for his innovations in musical composition.

Composers --- Songwriters --- Musicians --- Haydn, Joseph, --- Gaĭdn, Ĭ., --- Gaĭdn, Ĭosif, --- Gaĭdn, Ĭozef, --- Haiden, Josip, --- Haidnas, J., --- Haidun, --- Hayden, Joseph, --- Haydn, --- Haydn, F. J. --- Haydn, Franz Josef, --- Haydn, Franz Joseph, --- Haydn, Giuseppe, --- Haydn, Ios. --- Haydn, J. --- Haydn, Jos. --- Haydn, Josef, --- Haydn, Joseph --- Heyden, Joseph, --- Khaĭdn, Ĭozef, --- היידן, י., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Haydn, Franz Joseph