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Song and Season - Science, Culture, and Theatrical Time in Early Modern Venice (Hardcover)
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Song and Season - Science, Culture, and Theatrical Time in Early Modern Venice (Hardcover)
Series: The Calendar of Venetian Opera
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Two systems of timekeeping were in concurrent use in Venice between
1582 and 1797. Government documents conformed to the Venetian year
(beginning 1 March), church documents to the papal year (from 1
January). "Song and Season" defines the many ways in which time was
discussed, resolving a long-standing fuzziness imposed on studies
of personnel, institutions, and cultural dynamics by dating
conflicts. It is in this context that the standardization of
timekeeping coincided with the collapse of the "dramma per musica"
and the rise of scripted comedy and the "opera buffa,"
Selfridge-Field discloses fascinating relationships between the
musical stage and the cultures it served, such as the residues of
medieval liturgical feasts embedded in the theatrical year. Such
associations were transmuted into lingering seasonal associations
with specific dramatic genres. Interactions between culture and
chronology thus operated on both general and specific levels. Both
are fundamental to understanding theatrical dynamics of the
sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.
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