Dramma per Musica: Italian Opera Seria of the Eighteenth Century
ISBN-13:
9780300064544
ISBN-10:
0300064543
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Reinhard Strohm
Publication date:
1997
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Format:
Hardcover
336 pages
Category:
Musical Genres
,
Music
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ISBN-13:
9780300064544
ISBN-10:
0300064543
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Reinhard Strohm
Publication date:
1997
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Format:
Hardcover
336 pages
Category:
Musical Genres
,
Music
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Dramma per Musica: Italian Opera Seria of the Eighteenth Century (ISBN-13: 9780300064544 and ISBN-10: 0300064543), written by authors
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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 by one of the world’s most eminent musicologists illustrates the diversity of this baroque art form and explains how it has given us opera as we know it.
Reinhard Strohm introduces the concept and history of dramma per musica and then examines the contemporary reception and environment of this operatic tradition, analyzing its social and repertorial patterns and comparing it to theories on the roles of French spoken drama and Italian libretto reform. In describing the principles observed by poets, composers, and performers, Strohm discusses such central concepts of theory and practice as verisimilitude, decorum, gesture, and rhetoric. He also decodes various works, including Handel’s Ariodante, operas by Hasse, and stage works featuring the Earl of Essex. Throughout the book, Strohm surveys the traditions of the spoken theater and pays special attention to the subject matter of the librettos, as well as to drama theory, stage action, patronage, political history, and ideology. His account covers opera houses in Rome, Naples, Venice, Hamburg, Dresden, Vienna, Madrid, London, and Warsaw, as he follows one character of the dramatic tradition across the European stages for more than two centuries.
Authoritative and enlightening, this book reveals how dramma per musica forms a vital part of our theatrical and musical heritage.
Reinhard Strohm introduces the concept and history of dramma per musica and then examines the contemporary reception and environment of this operatic tradition, analyzing its social and repertorial patterns and comparing it to theories on the roles of French spoken drama and Italian libretto reform. In describing the principles observed by poets, composers, and performers, Strohm discusses such central concepts of theory and practice as verisimilitude, decorum, gesture, and rhetoric. He also decodes various works, including Handel’s Ariodante, operas by Hasse, and stage works featuring the Earl of Essex. Throughout the book, Strohm surveys the traditions of the spoken theater and pays special attention to the subject matter of the librettos, as well as to drama theory, stage action, patronage, political history, and ideology. His account covers opera houses in Rome, Naples, Venice, Hamburg, Dresden, Vienna, Madrid, London, and Warsaw, as he follows one character of the dramatic tradition across the European stages for more than two centuries.
Authoritative and enlightening, this book reveals how dramma per musica forms a vital part of our theatrical and musical heritage.
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