Stefanie Tcharos

Opera's Orbit

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Produktbeschreibung

Tcharos illustrates opera's engagement in a larger musical sphere of Arcadian Rome, where opera inspired debate and fuelled ideological reform.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 762g
• ISBN-13: 9780521116657
• ISBN-10: 0521116651
• Artikelnr.: 31193075

Autorenporträt

Stefanie Tcharos is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she specializes in early modern Italian opera and related dramatic vocal music, issues of aesthetics, cultural history, and genre theory. She has published articles and reviews in the Journal of Musicology, the Cambridge Opera Journal, and Music and Letters, and was a contributor to The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Opera's orbit
1. Enclosures, crises, polemics: opera production in 1690s Arcadian Rome
2. Disrupting the oratorio
3. The serenata's discourses of duality
4. The cantata, the pastoral, and the ideology of nostalgia
5. Epilogue.