Dramma per musica : Italian opera seria of the eighteenth century / Reinhard Strohm.
| Author/creator |
Strohm, Reinhard |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1997. |
| Description | x, 326 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Introduction: the dramma per musica in the eighteenth century -- A context for Griselda: the Teatro Capranica in Rome, 1711-1724 -- The Neapolitans in Venice -- The crisis of Baroque opera in Germany -- Francesco Corselli's drammi per musica for Madrid -- Apostolo Zeno's Teuzzone and its French models -- Antonio Vivaldi's setting of Teuzzone: dramatic speech and musical image -- Antonio Salvi's Amore e maesta and the funesto fine in opera -- Amore e maesta: the emancipation of an opera libretto -- Tolomeo: Handel's opera and the rules of tragedy -- Arianna in Creta: musical dramaturgy -- Sinfonia and drama in opera seria -- Handel's Ariodante: Scotland and Arcadia -- Rulers and states in Hasse's drammi per musica -- The Earl of Essex, servitore di due padrone. |
| Abstract | '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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-316) and index. |
| LCCN | 97027576 |
| ISBN | 0300064543 |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML1733.3 .S87 1997 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |