Seeing Opera Anew offers a "stereo" perspective to opera, adding insights from the sciences closely related to human life, including evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience. It has a novel approach, and a "cultural and biological perspective."
Seeing Opera Anew offers a "stereo" perspective to opera, adding insights from the sciences closely related to human life, including evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience. It has a novel approach, and a "cultural and biological perspective."
Joseph Cone graduated from Yale University (literature, music, science) and the University of Oregon (communications), and for four decades at Oregon State University his faculty position involved research in, and the practice of, science communication with the public. His love and knowledge of opera began at home and school and grew through years of enjoyment, study, and attending performances. This book is his sixth.
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Contents Preface PART 1 Music-Dramas Evolutionary Biology and Psychology Part 1 Introduction: What Science has to Offer 1 Orfeo: Stories Singing and Sexuality 2 Rodelinda: Emotion Music and Drama 3 L'Elisir d'Amore: Mate Choice Comedy and Consonance 4 Le Nozze di Figaro: Marital Commitment and Challenges to it 5 Don Giovanni Wozzeck: Assessing Adult Character 6 Die Walküre Simon Boccanegra: Parenting Power and Posterity 7 The Tempest Lear Falstaff: Aging and Wisdom PART 2 Cultural Considerations Regarding Opera Part 2 Introduction: What is meant by "Culture" 8 Attracting Audiences: War and Peace Omar Song from the Uproar 9 Origins and Innovations: Before and After La Bohème (the movie) 10 Affording Extraordinary Experiences: Les Troyens Akhnaten Index
Contents Preface PART 1 Music-Dramas Evolutionary Biology and Psychology Part 1 Introduction: What Science has to Offer 1 Orfeo: Stories Singing and Sexuality 2 Rodelinda: Emotion Music and Drama 3 L'Elisir d'Amore: Mate Choice Comedy and Consonance 4 Le Nozze di Figaro: Marital Commitment and Challenges to it 5 Don Giovanni Wozzeck: Assessing Adult Character 6 Die Walküre Simon Boccanegra: Parenting Power and Posterity 7 The Tempest Lear Falstaff: Aging and Wisdom PART 2 Cultural Considerations Regarding Opera Part 2 Introduction: What is meant by "Culture" 8 Attracting Audiences: War and Peace Omar Song from the Uproar 9 Origins and Innovations: Before and After La Bohème (the movie) 10 Affording Extraordinary Experiences: Les Troyens Akhnaten Index
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