Osmin's Rage : : Philosophical Reflections on Opera, Drama, and Text / / Peter Kivy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Kivy, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 4 drawings, 2 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface to the Cornell Paperbacks Edition --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; PART I: POSING THE PROBLEM --; I. Ecstasy and prophecy --; II. The art of invention: opera as invented art --; III. Enter Philosophy (in Classical attire) --; IV. The musical parameters --; V. Enter Orpheus (Philosophy attending) --; PART II: SOLVING THE PROBLEM --; VI. Philosophy and Psychology (in early modern dress) --; VII. The irrational entertainment as rational solution --; VIII. Listening with the ear of theory --; IX. Expanding universe --; X. Form, feeling, finale --; XI. Opera as music --; XII. Happy endings --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501727405; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501727405
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Kivy.

In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical—as opposed to a dramatic—necessity for opera during this period and that Mozart's Idomeneo is properly enjoyed and judged only when listeners are attuned to its seventeenth and eighteenth-century forebears.