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Title

Opera in perspective / by John D. Drummond.

Author

Drummond, John D.

Publication

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1980.

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Description

383 p. : ill., music; 24 cm.

Summary

For each stylistic period, the author analyzes exemplary works: Monteverdi's Orfeo; Handel's Rodelinda; Mozart's Marriage of Figaro; Verdi's Rigoletto; Wagner's Tristan und Isolde; Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande, among others.

Subject

Opera

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 365-369.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The origins of music drama. Music-drama and opera ; Beginnings ; Man the hunter ; Music-drama as image-making ; Images and music ; Apollo and Dionysos ; The image-maker ; Man the planter -- The music-drama of ancient Greece. Predecessors ; Greek music-drama ; Aeschylus' The Persians ; Sophocles' King Oedipus ; Euripides' The Bacchae ; Hellenistic culture ; Enthusiasm, ceremony and narrative ; Death and rebirth -- Rome and the middle ages. The music-drama of Rome ; The collapse of the Roman empire ; Christian ritual as music-drama ; Popular medieval music and drama ; Ecclesiastical music-drama ; The English mystery plays -- Rebirth. Orpheus ; Renaissance and reformation ; The music of the spheres ; Music and drama in the Italian renaissance ; The Florentine Camerata ; Peri's L'Euridici ; Monteverdi's L'Orfeo -- Opera seria. Baroque and classical ; Rhetoric ; The opera-house in the baroque period ; French drama and opera ; The conventions of opera seria ; Handel's Rodelinda ; Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice -- Comic music-drama. Comedy and tragedy ; Aristophanes and Menander ; The Commedia dell'arte ; Progress and music ; Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro -- Romantic opera. The sources of romantic opera ; Music and symbol ; French grand opera ; Italian romantic opera ; Verdi's Rigoletto ; German romantic opera ; Weber's Der Freischütz ; Romantic opera as music-drama -- Wagner and after. Wagner and romanticism ; Dramatic themes in Tristan und Isolde ; Musico-dramatic structures in Tristan und Isolde ; The twentieth-century confusion ; The nineteenth century continues ; New formal principles ; The return to the past -- Alternative realities. Music-drama as dream ; Debussy's Pelléas et Melisande ; The clash of worlds ; The avant-garde ; Paths to the hinterworld ; What next?

ISBN

0816608482 :

LCCN

^^^79028697^/MN/r862

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Harvard Library