Osmin's Rage: Philosophical Reflections on Opera, Drama, and Text

by Peter Kivy

2021-01-02 12:50:55

In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical?as opposed to a dramatic?necessity for opera during th... Read more

In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical?as opposed to a dramatic?necessity for opera during this period and that Mozart''s Idomeneo is properly enjoyed and judged only when listeners are attuned to its seventeenth and eighteenth-century forebears.

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File size9 X 6 X 0.74 in
Print pages336
PublisherCornell University Press
Publication date March 30, 1999
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780691073248

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