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(Dis)embodying myths in Ancien Régime opera : multidisciplinary perspectives
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Year: 2012 Publisher: Leuven Leuven University Press

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L'ingegnosa congiunzione : melos e immagine nella "favola" per musica
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ISBN: 8822232755 Year: 1984 Volume: vol 30 Publisher: Firenze Olschki

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(Dis)embodying myths in Ancien Régime opera
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ISBN: 946166057X 9789461660572 9789058679000 9058679004 Year: 2012 Publisher: Leuven Leuven UP

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Throughout the Ancien Regime, mythology played a vital role in opera, defining such epoch-making works as Claudio Monteverdi's 'La favola d'Orfeo' (1607) and Christoph Gluck's 'Iphigenie en Tauride' (1779). The operatic presence of the Greco-Roman gods and heroes was anything but unambiguous or unproblematic, however. This book highlights myth's chameleonic life in the Italian 'dramma per musica' and French 'tragedie en musique' of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Opera and sovereignty : transforming myths in eighteenth-century Italy
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ISBN: 9780226241135 9780226241128 0226241130 Year: 2007 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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"Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Mozart, and Cimarosa. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria was a product of its time, indexing the confident claims of absolutism early in the century and the political and social upheavals of its later years." "Taking an anthropological approach to European music that is as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera's shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, embedded in festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolutist ideals while demanding sustained audience attention. She situates these transformations against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture to show how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in the face of a growing public sphere. In doing so, Feldman brings to life what audiences experienced, demonstrating why the form was such a great international success and explaining ways that audience experiences of the period differed from ours today. Interdisciplinary, with provocative new tools for approaching all opera, Opera and Sovereignty will appeal not only to scholars of music and anthropology, but also to those interested in theater, dance, performance studies, and the history of the Enlightenment."--Jacket.


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Priape : opéra en musique, 1694
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Year: 1868 Publisher: [Genève] : Genève : impression spéciale faite pour la Bibliomaniac society [J. Gay et Fils], 1868 Imprimerie A. Blanchard,


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(Dis)embodying myths in Ancien Régime opera : multidisciplinary perspectives
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ISBN: 9789058679000 9058679004 Year: 2012 Publisher: Leuven University Press

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Throughout the Ancien Régime, mythology played a vital role in opera, defining such epoch-making works as Claudio Monteverdi's 'La favola d'Orfeo' (1607) and Christoph Gluck's 'Iphigénie en Tauride' (1779). The operatic presence of the Greco-Roman gods and heroes was anything but unambiguous or unproblematic, however. This book highlights myth's chameleonic life in the Italian 'dramma per musica' and French 'tragédie en musique' of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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