Author: Mary Hunter
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400822750
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Mozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now-popular operas has received little critical attention. In this richly detailed book, Mary Hunter offers a sweeping, synthetic view of opera buffa in the lively theatrical world of late-eighteenth-century Vienna. Opera buffa (Italian-language comic opera) persistently entertained audiences at a time when Joseph was striving for a German national theater. Hunter attributes opera buffa's success to its ability to provide "sheer" pleasure and hence explores how the genre functioned as entertainment. She argues that opera buffa, like mainstream film today, projects a social world both recognizable and distinct from reality. It raises important issues while containing them in the "merely entertaining" frame of the occasion, as well as presenting them as a series of easily identifiable dramatic and musical conventions. Exploring nearly eighty comic operas, Hunter shows how the arias and ensembles convey a multifaceted picture of the repertory's social values and habits. In a concluding chapter, she discusses Cos" fan tutte as a work profoundly concerned with the conventions of its repertory and with the larger idea of convention itself and reveals the ways Mozart and da Ponte pointedly converse with their immediate contemporaries.
Author: Mary Hunter
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400822750
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Mozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now-popular operas has received little critical attention. In this richly detailed book, Mary Hunter offers a sweeping, synthetic view of opera buffa in the lively theatrical world of late-eighteenth-century Vienna. Opera buffa (Italian-language comic opera) persistently entertained audiences at a time when Joseph was striving for a German national theater. Hunter attributes opera buffa's success to its ability to provide "sheer" pleasure and hence explores how the genre functioned as entertainment. She argues that opera buffa, like mainstream film today, projects a social world both recognizable and distinct from reality. It raises important issues while containing them in the "merely entertaining" frame of the occasion, as well as presenting them as a series of easily identifiable dramatic and musical conventions. Exploring nearly eighty comic operas, Hunter shows how the arias and ensembles convey a multifaceted picture of the repertory's social values and habits. In a concluding chapter, she discusses Cos" fan tutte as a work profoundly concerned with the conventions of its repertory and with the larger idea of convention itself and reveals the ways Mozart and da Ponte pointedly converse with their immediate contemporaries.
Author: Mary Hunter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781400816569
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Mozart's comic operas are among the master-works of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now-popular operas has received little critical attention. In this richly detailed book, Mary Hunter offers a sweeping, synthetic view of opera buffa in the lively theatrical world of late-eighteenth-century Vienna. Opera buffa (Italian-language comic opera) persistently entertained audiences at a time when Joseph II was striving for a German national theater. Hunter attributes opera buffa's success to the "sheer" pleasure it can provide, and hence explores how the genre functioned as entertainment. She argues that opera buffa, like mainstream film today, projects a social world both recognizable and distinct from reality. It raises important issues while containing them in the "merely entertaining" frame of the occasion, as well as presenting them as a series of easily identifiable dramatic and musical conventions. Exploring nearly eighty comic operas, Hunter shows how the arias and ensembles convey a multifaceted picture of the repertory's social values and habits. In a concluding chapter, she discusses Cosi fan tutte as a work profoundly concerned with the conventions of its repertory and with the larger idea of convention itself and reveals the ways Mozart and da Ponte pointedly converse with their immediate contemporaries.
Author: Assistant Professor of Art History Mary Hunter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521572392
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development of opera buffa in the second half of the eighteenth century. Although today Mozart remains one of the most well-known figures of the period, the era was filled with composers, librettists, writers and performers who created and developed opera buffa. Among the topics examined are the relationship of Viennese opera buffa to French theatre; Mozart and eighteenth-century comedy; gender, nature and bourgeois society on Mozart's buffa stage; as well as close analyses of key works such as Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro.
Author: Marcus Aydintan
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN: 3487158914
Category : Music
Languages : de
Pages : 556
Book Description
Inhalt: Kaiser: Von der Sequenz zur Kadenz. Zur Entstehungsgeschichte der Interpunktion von Sonatenmusik Jeßulat: Urchoräle Bahr: Das Vorspiel zu den Meistersingern, 3. Akt, und Bachs Fuga in g, BWV 861 Chernova: Die fünfte Klaviersonate op. 53 (1907) – das letzte ›tonale‹ Werk Skrjabins? Schreiber: Contemporary composers and the repertoire of the Viennese classics Habryka: Der Einfluss von Kanonmodellen auf Grundtonfortschreitungen Hardt: Vivaldi und das Bausteinprinzip Sprick: Überlegungen zur Anfangswendung von Bachs Suite für Violoncello solo, BWV 1011 Reichel: Dramaturgische und harmonisch kontrapunktische Zeitgestaltung in Mozarts Bühnenwerken Venegas: The Bruckner Challenge: The Third Symphony’s Slow Movement(s) Komatovic: Exemplarische Untersuchungen zu spättonalen Phänomenen im Werk César Francks Reutter: ›Alla napolitana‹ oder Abschiedsgestus. Ein ›Satzmodell‹ bei Strawinsky? Holm: Die Zeitgestaltung in der Interpretationskunst Wilhelm Furtwänglers Žuvela: Der ›Goldene Schnitt‹ und die Fibonacci-Folge als Zeitgliederungsmuster in der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts Olive: Temporal dimensions and expressive processes in Pierrot Lunaire of Arnold Schoenberg Schmidt: Polyphonie oder Kontrapunkt Dreps: Thema mit Variablen. Zur Phänomenologie der Jazzkomposition und musikalischer Analyse Temes: Das Verbiegen des Zeitpfeils. Ligetis ametrische Uhren Knowles: Meter and Memory in George Crumb’s Dream Images from Makrokosmos Volume 1 Andreatta: On Two Computational Models of the Pitch-Rhythm Correspondence: A Focus on Milton Babbitt’s and Iannis Xenakis’s Theoretical Constructions Barthel-Calvet: Categories of Rhythmic Organization in Xenakian Textures Poller: Makro- und Mikrozeit. Zur Temporalität zeitgenössischer Musik Gatz: Zur Zeitartikulation in Chaya Czernowins Ensemblestück Lovesong Farolfi: Der Modernismus in den Schriften Pierre Boulez’, 1948–1952 Hyun Kim: Rhythmus als erlebtes Phänomen Fuß: Das musikalische Werkganze – ein rein theoretisches Konstrukt? Jerrold Levinsons Music in the Moment Pawlowska: Narrative and Time in Music: A Few Insights Zenkin: Time as the Material and Idea of Music Polak: Non-Isochronous Meter Is Not Irregular: A Review of Theory and Evidence Goldberg: Timing of Unequal Beats in Bulgarian Drumming Holzapfel: A Corpus Study on Rhythmic Modes in Turkish Makam Music and Their Interaction with Meter Guillot: Multi-level Anisochrony in Afro-Brazilian music London: Response to Goldberg, Holzapfel, and Guillot Maschke: Von Leonin und Perotin zum »Tod des Autors«. Aktuelle Notre-Dame-Forschung Sprau: Zur Umsetzung sprachlicher Akzentmuster in Vertonungen lateinischer Dichtung Bassani: Zur Interpretationsgeschichte von Loewes Die Uhr seit den Anfängen der Tonaufnahme Grabow: Voglers Modulationslehre im aktuellen Theorieunterricht Mooiman: Commonplacing: On Historically Inspired Improvisation and Music Theory Winter: Grund-, Sext-, Sext-, Grund- … Ein Vergleich von oktavregelähnlichen Systemen vor 1716 Graybill: Drawing Inspiration from Europe: A Three-Pronged Approach to Keyboard Pedagogy
Author: Jan Swafford
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 057132326X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 675
Book Description
From his celebrated early childhood, Mozart has been caught up in myths: the superhuman prodigy, the adult who was still a child, the neglect, the pauper's grave. None of these myths are true, at least not at face value. Wolfgang Amadè Mozart is not primarily a myth-busting book, but in the process of bringing to vivid life the man and composer absorbed in writing for his public rather than for posterity, the myths topple en route. Swafford portrays a man who had his sorrows like everybody else, but who was a high-spirited, high-living bon vivant fond of games of skill, well-read and thoughtful if also at times playing the clown: in the end fundamentally a happy and happily married man who had a wide circle of friends.
Author: Dorothea Link
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252053656
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Dorothea Link examines singers’ voices and casting practices in late eighteenth-century Italian opera as exemplified in Vienna’s court opera from 1783 to 1791. The investigation into the singers’ voices proceeds on two levels: understanding the performers in terms of the vocal-dramatic categories employed in opera at the time; and creating vocal profiles for the principal singers from the music composed expressly for them. In addition, Link contextualizes the singers within the company in order to expose the court opera's casting practices. Authoritative and insightful, The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart's Vienna offers a singular look at a musical milieu and a key to addressing the performance-practice problem of how to cast the Mozart roles today.
Author: SimonP. Keefe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351557920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
This volume of essays on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart reflects scholarly advances made over the last thirty years. The studies are broad and focused, demonstrating a large number of viewpoints, methodologies and orientations and the material spans a wide range of subject areas, including biography, vocal music, instrumental music and performance. Written by leading researchers from Europe and North America, these previously published articles and book chapters are representative of both the most frequently discussed and debated issues in Mozart studies and the challenging, exciting nature of Mozart scholarship in general. The volume is essential reading for researchers, students and scholars of Mozart's music.
Author: Martin Nedbal
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317094093
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book explores how the Enlightenment aesthetics of theater as a moral institution influenced cultural politics and operatic developments in Vienna between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Moralistic viewpoints were particularly important in eighteenth-century debates about German national theater. In Vienna, the idea that vernacular theater should cultivate the moral sensibilities of its German-speaking audiences became prominent during the reign of Empress Maria Theresa, when advocates of German plays and operas attempted to deflect the imperial government from supporting exclusively French and Italian theatrical performances. Morality continued to be a dominant aspect of Viennese operatic culture in the following decades, as critics, state officials, librettists, and composers (including Gluck, Mozart, and Beethoven) attempted to establish and define German national opera. Viennese concepts of operatic didacticism and national identity in theater further transformed in response to the crisis of Emperor Joseph II’s reform movement, the revolutionary ideas spreading from France, and the war efforts in facing Napoleonic aggression. The imperial government promoted good morals in theatrical performances through the institution of theater censorship, and German-opera authors cultivated intensely didactic works (such as Die Zauberflöte and Fidelio) that eventually became the cornerstones for later developments of German culture.
Author: Simon P. Keefe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107116716
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 719
Book Description
Comprehensive and engaging exploration of Mozart's greatest works, focussing on his dual roles as performer and composer in Vienna.
Author: Simon P. Keefe
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843833190
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The music Mozart composed in Vienna closely examined, bringing out the processes of re-invention and re-formulation it displays.
