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The Secular Commedia - Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music (Hardcover)
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The Secular Commedia - Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music (Hardcover)
Series: Ernest Bloch Lectures, 15
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Wye Jamison Allanbrook's "The Secular Commedia" is a stimulating
and original rethinking of the music of the late eighteenth
century. Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart
with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners
did, Allanbrook shows that this familiar music is built on a set of
mimetic associations drawn from conventional modes of depicting
character and emotion in opera buffa. Allanbrook mines a rich trove
of writings by eighteenth-century philosophers and music theorists
to show that vocal music was considered aesthetically superior to
instrumental music and that listeners easily perceived the
theatrical tropes that underpinned the style. Tracing Enlightenment
notions of character and expression back to Greek and Latin
writings about comedy and drama, she strips away preoccupations
with symphonic form and teleology to reveal anew the kaleidoscopic
variety and gestural vitality of the musical surface. In prose as
graceful and nimble as the music she discusses, Allanbrook
elucidates the idiom of this period for contemporary readers. With
notes, musical examples, and a foreword by editors Mary Ann Smart
and Richard Taruskin.
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