The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera (Cambridge Companions to Music)
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (803 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521695384 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Anthony R. . DelDonna is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Georgetown University, Washington DC.Pierpaolo Polzonetti is Assistant Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana
"The divided authorship provides a rich fund of expertise This Companion has succeeded in its aim to address a wide range of skills and interests. The style is always accessible it is a pleasure to handle. It cannot fail to leave its readers enlightened." --Musical Times
Another excellent Cambridge Companion I now have read two Cambridge Companions, and I found both of them very well done. The other one was "The C C to Pascal," and it was great.
Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source. Eighteenth-century opera is experiencing continuing critical and popular success through innovative and provoking productions world-wide, and this Companion will appeal to opera goers as well as to students and teachers of this key topic.. Overall, the volume provides a synthesis of well established knowledge, reflects recent research on eighteenth-century opera, and stimulates further research. Viewing opera as a complex and fascinating form of art and social ritual, rather than reducing it simply to music and text analysis, individual essays investigate aspects such as audiences, architecture of the theaters, marketing, acting style, and the politics and strategy of representing class and gender. The reader is encouraged to view opera as a cultural phenomenon that can reveal aspects of our culture, both past and present