2010, ISBN: 9780226044545

Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century… Mehr…

Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period's social and political upheavals.Taking an anthropological approach to European music that's as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera's shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, with its festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolute ideals. She situates these transformations against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture to show how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in the face of a growing public sphere. &nbsp;In so doing, Feldman explains why the form had such great international success and how audience experiences of the period differed from ours today. Ambitiously interdisciplinary, Opera and Sovereignty will appeal not only to scholars of music and anthropology, but also to those interested in theater, dance, and the history of the Enlightenment. [PU: University of Chicago Press], Seiten: 584, University of Chicago Press, 2010<

ISBN: 9780226044545

Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Hayd… Mehr…

Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period’s social and political upheavals.Taking an anthropological approach to European music that’s as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera’s shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, with its festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolute ideals. She situates these transformations against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture to show how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in the face of a growing public sphere.  In so doing, Feldman explains why the form had such great international success and how audience experiences of the period differed from ours today. Ambitiously interdisciplinary, Opera and Sovereignty will appeal not only to scholars of music and anthropology, but also to those interested in theater, dance, and the history of the Enlightenment.; EPUB; Music, Stage & Screen > Music, University of Chicago Press<

ISBN: 9780226044545

1st Edition, by Martha Feldman, PRINT ISBN: 9780226241135 E-TEXT ISBN: 9780226044545 University of Chicago Press eBook Other pricing structure might be available at vitalsource.com., Univ… Mehr…

1st Edition, by Martha Feldman, PRINT ISBN: 9780226241135 E-TEXT ISBN: 9780226044545 University of Chicago Press eBook Other pricing structure might be available at vitalsource.com., University of Chicago Press<

ISBN: 9780226044545

Media & Performing Arts Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy University of Chicago Press Music 9780226241128, 9780226241135 DE,GB,US English, The University of Chicago Press

2010, ISBN: 9780226044545

Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, [PU: University of Chicago Press], [ED: 1], University of Chicago Press, 2010