Opera's Orbit: Musical Drama and the Influence of Opera in Arcadian Rome - Rilegato

Tcharos, Stefanie

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ISBN 10: 0521116651 ISBN 13: 9780521116657

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Riassunto

Exploring the dynamic yet problematic context of musical drama in Rome, this study probes opera's relationship to modernity during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Opera instigated a range of discourses, most notably among Rome's Academy of Arcadians, whose apprehension towards opera refracted larger aesthetic and cultural debates, and socio-political tensions. Tcharos presents a unique perspective, engaging opera as a historical force that established a sphere of influence across several genres and matrices of culture. The juxtaposition of opera against the prominent forms of the oratorio, serenata and cantata illustrates opera's constitutive role in a trans-genre cultural matrix, where the dialogical connections between musico-dramatic forms vividly capture the historicism, nostalgia, contradiction and cultural reform that opera inspired. By illuminating other genres as reactionary sites of music and drama, Opera's Orbit boldly reconstructs opera's eighteenth-century critical turn.

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'An interesting survey of an intriguing period, with plenty of guidance for further investigation.' Opera

Descrizione del libro:

Tcharos captures opera within the vibrant yet problematic context of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Arcadian Rome. She reconstructs opera's critical turn by engaging opera within a larger cultural sphere, where tensions and relations with other musico-dramatic genres illuminate opera's revisionist role in social, political, and aesthetic conflicts.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521116651
• ISBN 13: 9780521116657
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 334