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Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage (Paperback)
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Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage (Paperback)
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Opera was invented at the end of the sixteenth century in imitation
of the supposed style of delivery of ancient Greek tragedy, and,
since then, operas based on Greek drama have been among the most
important in the repertoire. This collection of essays by leading
authorities in the fields of Classics, Musicology, Dance Studies,
English Literature, Modern Languages, and Theatre Studies provides
an exceptionally wide-ranging and detailed overview of the
relationship between the two genres. Since tragedies have played a
much larger part than comedies in this branch of operatic history,
the volume mostly concentrates on the tragic repertoire, but a
chapter on musical versions of Aristophanes' Lysistrata is
included, as well as discussions of incidental music, a very
important part of the musical reception of ancient drama, from
Andrea Gabrieli in 1585 to Harrison Birtwistle and Judith Weir in
the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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