The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna : : A Poetics of Entertainment / / Mary Hunter.
Mozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now-popular operas has received little critical attention. In this richly detailed book, Mary Hunter offers a sweeping, synthe...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1999] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Opera ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 54 music examples |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Editorial Policies
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE: Opera Buffa as Entertainment
- CHAPTER ONE. Opera Buffa as Sheer Pleasure
- CHAPTER TWO. Opera Buffa's Conservative Frameworks
- CHAPTER THREE. Opera Buffa's Social Reversals
- PART TWO: The Closed Musical Numbers of Opera Buffa and Their Social Implications
- CHAPTER FOUR. Arias: Some Issues
- CHAPTER FIVE. Class and Gender in Arias: Five Aria Types
- CHAPTER SIX. Ensembles
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Beginning and Ending Together: Introduzioni and Finales
- PART THREE: Così Fan Tutte le Opere? A Masterwork in Context
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Così fan tutte in Conversation
- CHAPTER NINE. Così fan tutte and Convention
- APPENDIX ONE. Operas Consulted
- APPENDIX TWO. Musical Forms in Opera Buffa Arias
- APPENDIX THREE. Plot Summaries for I finti eredi, Le gare generose, and L'incognita perseguitata
- Works Cited
- Index