From Garrick to Gluck : essays on opera in the age of Enlightenment / Daniel Heartz ; edited by John A. Rice.

Author/creator Heartz, Daniel
Other author Rice, John A. editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoHillsdale, N.Y. : Pendragon Press, ©2004.
Descriptionxvi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesOpera series ; no. 1
Opera series (Pendragon Press) ; no. 1. ^A587846
Contents Overture: Les lumières -- Opera buffa. Vis comica: Goldoni, Galuppi, and L'Arcadia in Brenta ; The creation of the buffo finale ; Goldoni, opera buffa, and Mozart's Advent in Vienna -- Opera seria. Metastasio, "Maestro dei maestri di capella drammatici" ; Hasse, Galuppi, and Metastasio ; Farinelli and Metastasio, rival twins of public favour ; Farinelli revisited: from the sublime to the ridiculous -- Opéra-comique. Terpsichore at the fair: old and new dance airs in two vaudeville comedies by Lesage ; Watteau's Italian comedians ; The Beggar's Opera and Opéra-comiques en vaudevilles ; The beginnings of the operatic romance: Rousseau, Sedaine, and Monsigny -- The Querelle des Bouffons. Grimm's Le petit prophëte de Boemischbroda ; Italian by intention, French of necessity: Rousseau's Le devin de village ; Diderot and the lyric theater: "The new style" proposed by Le neveu de Rameau -- Reform operas. From Garrick to Gluck: the reform of theater and opera in the mid-eighteenth century ; Traetta in Parma: Ippolito ed Aricia ; Traetta in Vienna: Armida and Ifigenia [Iphigénie] in Tauride ; Orfeo ed Euridice: Some criticisms, revisions, and stage realizations during Gluck's lifetime.
Abstract One of the most productive and influential musicologists of our time, Daniel Heartz has published many important books and musical editions. But much of his finest work has taken the form of essays, which he has continued to produce throughout his long career. This volume presents a collection of Heartz's essays on musical theater in the eighteenth century, bringing together articles written during the third of a century from 1967 (From Garrick to Gluck) to 2001 (Melchior Grimm's La petit prophete de Boemischbroda, published here for the first time). Heartz has always sought, in both his teaching and his writing, to communicate with those outside musicology. His essays often deal with literature, painting, and architecture as well as music and he maintains an informed voice in all these disciplines. The editor has organized the material for easy access under five rubriques: Opera Buffa, Opera Seria, Opera-Comique, The Querelle des Bouffons, and Reform Operas. This volume has been designed not only to honor this great teacher-scholar on his seventy-fifth birthday (October 2002) but also as a convenient means for musicologists, music-lovers, eighteenth-century specialists, and students to find and read Heartz's work.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004016983
ISBN1576470814 (alk. paper)

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