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Ellen Rosand
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of California Pr
Publication date
December 1, 1990
Pages
684
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780520068087
ISBN-10
0520068084
Dimensions
2.25 by 10.50 by 7.50 in.
Weight
3.75 lbs.
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Out of Print
Original list price
$150.00
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university press
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Describes how forty years of accutely conscious development by composers, librettists, singers, and others in Venice established the conventions which turned opera from a courtly entertainment into an art form found on the stages of all Europe
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
Ellen Rosand shows how opera, born of courtly entertainment, took root in the special social and economic environment of seventeenth-century Venice and there developed the stylistic and aesthetic characteristics we recognize as opera today. With ninety-one music examples, most of them complete pieces nowhere else in print, and enlivened by twenty-eight illustrations, this landmark study will be essential for all students of opera, amateur and professional, and for students of European cultural history in general.
Because opera was new in the seventeenth century, the composers (most notably Monteverdi and Cavalli), librettists, impresarios, singers, and designers were especially aware of dealing with aesthetic issues as they worked. Rosand examines critically for the first time the voluminous literary and musical documentation left by the Venetian makers of opera. She determines how these pioneers viewed their art and explains the mechanics of the proliferation of opera, within only four decades, to stages across Europe. Rosand isolates two features of particular importance to this proliferation: the emergence of conventionsâmusical, dramatic, practicalâthat facilitated replication; and the acute self-consciousness of the creators who, in their scores, librettos, letters, and other documents, have left us a running commentary on the origins of a genre.
Because opera was new in the seventeenth century, the composers (most notably Monteverdi and Cavalli), librettists, impresarios, singers, and designers were especially aware of dealing with aesthetic issues as they worked. Rosand examines critically for the first time the voluminous literary and musical documentation left by the Venetian makers of opera. She determines how these pioneers viewed their art and explains the mechanics of the proliferation of opera, within only four decades, to stages across Europe. Rosand isolates two features of particular importance to this proliferation: the emergence of conventionsâmusical, dramatic, practicalâthat facilitated replication; and the acute self-consciousness of the creators who, in their scores, librettos, letters, and other documents, have left us a running commentary on the origins of a genre.
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Hardcover
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from Univ of California Pr (December 1, 1990)
9780520068087 | details & prices | 684 pages | 10.50 × 7.50 × 2.25 in. | 3.75 lbs | List price $150.00
About: Describes how forty years of accutely conscious development by composers, librettists, singers, and others in Venice established the conventions which turned opera from a courtly entertainment into an art form found on the stages of all Europe
About: Describes how forty years of accutely conscious development by composers, librettists, singers, and others in Venice established the conventions which turned opera from a courtly entertainment into an art form found on the stages of all Europe
Paperback
1 edition from Univ of California Pr (October 9, 2007)
9780520254268 | details & prices | 684 pages | 7.00 × 9.75 × 1.75 in. | 2.75 lbs | List price $57.95
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