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Opera's Orbit - Musical Drama and the Influence of Opera in Arcadian Rome (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,525
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Opera's Orbit - Musical Drama and the Influence of Opera in Arcadian Rome (Hardcover): Stefanie Tcharos

Opera's Orbit - Musical Drama and the Influence of Opera in Arcadian Rome (Hardcover)

Stefanie Tcharos

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Exploring the dynamic yet problematic context of musical drama in Rome, this study probes opera's relationship to modernity during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Opera instigated a range of discourses, most notably among Rome's Academy of Arcadians, whose apprehension towards opera refracted larger aesthetic and cultural debates, and socio-political tensions. Tcharos presents a unique perspective, engaging opera as a historical force that established a sphere of influence across several genres and matrices of culture. The juxtaposition of opera against the prominent forms of the oratorio, serenata and cantata illustrates opera's constitutive role in a trans-genre cultural matrix, where the dialogical connections between musico-dramatic forms vividly capture the historicism, nostalgia, contradiction and cultural reform that opera inspired. By illuminating other genres as reactionary sites of music and drama, Opera's Orbit boldly reconstructs opera's eighteenth-century critical turn.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2011
First published: February 2011
Authors: Stefanie Tcharos
Dimensions: 254 x 183 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-11665-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Opera
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)
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LSN: 0-521-11665-1
Barcode: 9780521116657

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