W. A. Mozart, Die Entführung aus dem Serail / Thomas Bauman.

Author/creator Bauman, Thomas, 1948-
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Descriptionxiii, 141 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCambridge opera handbooks
Cambridge opera handbooks. ^A127792
Contents Conception and creation -- Oriental opera -- Synopsis -- The musical language of the opera -- The opera in performance.
Abstract This addition to the Cambridge Opera Handbooks series is also the first full-length study of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail. It aims to familiarize the reader with all aspect of the work: Mozart's writing of the opera and its literary antecedents, its plot, its musical structure, its reception and performance history. The author discusses the opera in relation to other Oriental operas, in the light of eighteenth-century apprehensions of the East, and as an attempt to reconcile the conventions of German opera in the early 1780s with Viennese taste and Mozart's own maturing operatic aesthetic. The text is well illustrated with pictures and music examples and a full discography lists the available recordings of the opera.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 130-134), discography (pages 135-137), and index.
LCCN 87010326
ISBN0521325455
ISBN0521310601 (pbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML410.M9 B185 1987 ✔ Available Place Hold