div.javascriptErrorPage { background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.3); width: 100%; text-align: center; height: 100vh; } div.javascriptErrorPageContent { position: fixed; top : 50%; left: 50%; -ms-transform: translate(-50%, -50%); transform : translate(-50%, -50%); border-radius: 20px; background: #FFFFFF; box-shadow: 0px 3px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2), 0px 6px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.14), 0px 1px 18px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); } /* This is mobile */ @media (max-width:600px) { div.javascriptErrorPage { background-color: none; width: 100%; text-align: center; height: auto; } div.javascriptErrorPageContent { width: 100%; border-radius: none; box-shadow: none; } }

image for error

JavaScript required

We’re sorry, but WorldCat does not work without JavaScript enabled. Please enable JavaScript on your browser.

Front cover image for Dramma per musica : Italian opera seria of the eighteenth century

Dramma per musica : Italian opera seria of the eighteenth century

Author:Reinhard Strohm

Summary:'Dramma per musica', the most usual term for Italian serious opera from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, was a modern, enlightened form of theater that presented a unified, artistically designed, dramatic enactment of human stories, expressed by the voice and underscored by the orchestra. This book illustrates the diversity of this baroque art form and explains how it has given us opera as we know it

Print Book, English, ©1997

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher:Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, ©1997

Physical Description:x, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9780300064544, 0300064543

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:37221010

Subjects:

Geschichte 1700-1800

Opera Italy 18th century

Opera seria Italie 18e siècle

Opéra Italie 18e siècle

Contents:

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

vi

(1)

PREFACE

vii

1 Introduction: the dramma per musica in the eighteenth century

1

(32)

Court and city opera

33

(88)

2 A context for Griselda: the Teatro Capranica in Rome, 1711-1724

33

(28)

3 The Neapolitans in Venice

61

(20)

4 The crisis of Baroque opera in Germany

81

(16)

5 Francesco Corselli's drammi per musica for Madrid

97

(24)

Tragedie into dramma per musica

121

(80)

6 Apostolo Zeno's Teuzzone and its French models

121

(13)

7 Antonio Vivaldi's setting of Teuzzone: dramatic speech and musical image

134

(31)

8 Antonio Salvi's Amore e maesta and the funesto fine in opera

165

(12)

9 Amore e maesta: the emancipation of an opera libretto

177

(24)

Theory and practice

201

(54)

10 Tolomeo: Handel's opera and the rules of tragedy

201

(19)

11 Arianna in Creta: musical dramaturgy

220

(17)

12 Sinfonia and drama in opera seria

237

(18)

Themes and dreams

255

(51)

13 Handel's Ariodante: Scotland and Arcadia

255

(15)

14 Rulers and states in Hasse's drammi per musica

270

(24)

15 The Earl of Essex, servitore di due padrone

294

(12)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

306

(11)

INDEX

317