Opera's Orbit
Musical Drama and the Influence of Opera in Arcadian Rome
- Author: Stefanie Tcharos, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Date Published: February 2011
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521116657
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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.
Read more- Investigates the diffusion of opera across a multi-genre spectrum, arguing that a larger genre spectrum is critical in uncovering the broader cultural and ideological assumptions of an era
- Reveals the larger trajectory of opera's travels, from its seventeenth-century context and assumptions, to a more critical, reflective, and nostalgic eighteenth-century viewpoint
- Explores the impact of opera and its surrounding musical culture upon a larger historical landscape of cultural reform during the early Enlightenment period
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'An interesting survey of an intriguing period, with plenty of guidance for further investigation.' Opera
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- Date Published: February 2011
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521116657
- length: 334 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 183 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.82kg
- contains: 8 b/w illus. 9 music examples
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Introduction. Opera's orbit
1. Enclosures, crises, polemics: opera production in 1690s Arcadian Rome
2. Disrupting the oratorio
3. The serenata's discourses of duality
4. The cantata, the pastoral, and the ideology of nostalgia
5. Epilogue.
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