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100 1 $aCannon, Robert,$d1947-
245 10 $aOpera /$cRobert Cannon.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$cc2012.
300 $axvii, 431 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aCambridge introductions to music
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 2 $apt. I. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 1. Pre-operatic forms : Pre-opera: Greek drama ; Pre-opera: mediaeval music theatre (liturgical, sacred and secular drama) ; Mannerism and the growth of overtly expressive music ; Italy: the Intermedii ; France and England -- 2. First operatic forms : The stile rappresentativo ; Aria, arioso, recitative, singers ; First and second practice ; Rome and Venice: entertainment and commerce ; France: the rule of Lully (Armide) ; Germany (Keiser's Croesus) -- 3. Formalisation : Towards opera seria: first stage: Apostolo Zeno ; The da capo aria ; Music and emotion ; Sentiment and rhetoric ; Handel (Rinaldo) ; Opera seria: second stage (Pietro Metastasio) ; Practicalities -- 4. Reform: the reintegration of elements : Differing aspects of reform ; Neo-classical ideals ; Internal reform ; Radical reform -- 5. Comedy and the 'real world': Realism and sentiment ; Intermezzi and the opera buffa ; Naples and the opera buffa ; Mozart -- 6. Authentic performance : The early music revival ; The score ; Technical elements ; Performance conditions ; Production ; The audience --
505 2 $apt. II. The nineteenth century. 7. Romanticism and romantic opera in Germany : Revolution and war ; History, art and myth ; Romanticism: national and international ; Germany -- 8. Opera in nineteenth-century Italy : The primo ottocento (Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti) ; Verdi -- 9. Grand opéra and the visual language of opera : The role of the Opéra ; Eugène Scribe and the 'pièce bien faite' -- 10. The Wagnerian revolution : Cultural and artistic purpose ; Convention and reform (Der fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin) ; Form and motif (Die Walküre) ; Rhythm ; Melody ; Prosody and text, harmony and time ; Formal moments ; Stage and theatre ; Inheritance -- 11. Nationalists: vernacular language and music : Nationalism and folk culture ; National struggle: Russia, Poland, Hungary and Bohemia ; The future of nationalism? -- 12. The role of the singer : The range of roles and attractions of the singer --
505 2 $apt. III. The twentieth and twenty-first centuries. 13. The turn of the century and the crisis in opera : Naturalism and Verismo ; Modernism and Richard Strauss -- 14. First modernism: Symbolist and Expressionist opera : Debussy and symbolism (Pelléas et Mélisande) ; Berg and expressionism (Wozzeck) -- 15. The dramaturgy of opera: libretto, words and structures : Plot: the order of incidents ; Retrospective narration ; Complication, discovery and reversal ; Words ; Points of division -- 16. Narrative opera: realistic and non-realistic : Realistic narratives ; Non-realistic narratives -- 17. Radical narratives : Dialectical organisation of text and score ; The totality of performance as meaning -- 18. Directors and the direction of opera -- Appendixes : 1. Motifs from The Ring used in Chapter 10 ; 2. The development of singing voices in opera ; 3. The development of lyric theatre alternatives to 'opera' ; 4. Some major operas and artistic and political events of the twentieth century, 1899-2008.
650 0 $aOpera.
830 0 $aCambridge introductions to music.
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