| Series |
Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989 ; v. 102
Eastman studies in music ; v. 102. ^A494093
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| Contents |
Hearing voices, stories, and sounds in Eighteenth-century Opera and Cantata. The choices of Hercules and Handel / Ruth Smith -- The cantata as narrative: serials, colloquies, and commemoratives / Ellen T. Harris -- Continuities of time in Handel's operas / Nathan Link -- The Metastasian sonosphere / Giovanni Morelli -- Hearing voices in German Song. Music for a Saxon princess / Rebecca Cypess -- Text, voice, and genre in "Nun ist der Herr zu Ruh gebracht" BWV 244/67 / Daniel R. Melamed -- Ellen's songs (D. 837-39) / Joseph Kerman -- Happy and sad: Robert Schumann's art of ambiguity / Kristina Muxfeldt -- Hearing voices through time. Beethoven's Handel and the Messiah copies / Bathia Churgin -- The Livre d'or of Charlotte de Rothschild / Philip Gossett -- The art of artlessness, or, Adelina Patti teaches us how to be natural / Roger Freitas -- Manly music: reading Victorian language / Ruth A. Solie. |
| Abstract |
The rich cultural environment of early modern Italy inspired an array of musical innovations: this was the age of the virtuoso performer, the era that witnessed the beginnings of opera, the time when madrigals were blended with songs of all sorts. The book presents a broad range of studies on the music and related arts in this period. Topics include musical source studies, issues of performance, poetry and linguistics, influences on music from the classical tradition, and the interconnectedness of music and visual art. Their points of departure include well-known musical works, librettos of seventeenth-century operas, poetry, and paintings. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-258) and index. |
| LCCN | 2013027337 |
| ISBN | 9781580464307 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 1580464300 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
