Dramma Per Musica: Italian Opera Seria of the Eighteenth CenturyYale University Press, 1 janv. 1997 - 326 pages 'Dramma per musica', the most usual term for Italian serious opera from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, was a modern, enlightened form of theater that presented a unified, artistically designed, dramatic enactment of human stories, expressed by the voice and underscored by the orchestra. This book illustrates the diversity of this baroque art form and explains how it has given us opera as we know it. |
Table des matières
2 | 33 |
4 | 57 |
The crisis of Baroque opera in Germany | 81 |
5 | 93 |
6 | 121 |
8 | 136 |
the emancipation of an opera libretto | 177 |
10 | 201 |
musical dramaturgy | 220 |
Sinfonia and drama in opera seria | 237 |
322 | |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Alessandro Scarlatti Amore e maestà Antonio Salvi Antonio Vivaldi Apostolo Zeno aria Arianna in Creta Ariodante Arsace Artaserse artistic Atalide Bajazet ballet Baroque Berenice Capeci Carlo carnival characters choruses composers Comte d'Essex conflict Corneille's Corselli court operas critics dialogue Didone abbandonata Domenico dramaturgical dramma per musica eighteenth century Essex ethos expressed Ezio Farnace Francesco Gasparini French genre Giovanni Grisostomo Griselda Hamburg Handel Hasse Hasse's heroic impresarios intermezzi Italian opera Johann Leonardo librettist libretto literary London Maria melodramma Milan Mingotti minuet Mitrane monologue music example Naples Neapolitan opera house opera seria Orlandini Ottoboni pastoral performed Peruzzi Pietro Metastasio play plot poet Porpora productions Queen recitative reform Reinhard Strohm role Rome Rosmiri scenic units Sciro score season settecento setting sinfonia singers Siroe stage stage-sets Statira Teatro Capranica Teuzzone theatre Thomas Corneille Tito Tolomeo tradition tragedy tragic Venetian Venice verisimilitude Vienna villain Vinci Zelinda Zeno's Zidiana
Fréquemment cités
Page 313 - Parallèle des Italiens et des François en ce qui regarde la Musique et les Opéra , qui occasionna une guerre littéraire.