Hunter The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna

A Poetics of Entertainment
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2275-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in Opera

Mary Hunter is Professor of Music at Bowdoin College. She is the editor, with James Webster, of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hunter, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments

Editorial Policies

Abbreviations

Introduction 3

Pt. 1 Opera Buffa as Entertainment

Ch. 1 Opera Buffa as Sheer Pleasure 27

Ch. 2 Opera Buffa's Conservative Frameworks 52

Ch. 3 Opera Buffa's Social Reversals 71

Pt. 2 The Closed Musical Numbers of Opera Buffa and Their Social Implications

Ch. 4 Arias: Some Issues 95

Ch. 5 Class and Gender in Arias: Five Aria Types 110

Ch. 6 Ensembles 156

Ch. 7 Beginning and Ending Together: Introduzioni and Finales 196

Pt. 3 Cosi Fan Tutte le Opere? A Masterwork in Context

Ch. 8 Cosi fan tutte in Conversation 247

Ch. 9 Cosi fan tutte and Convention 273

App. 1 Operas Consulted 299

App. 2 Musical Forms in Opera Buffa Arias 305

App. 3 Plot Summaries for I finti eredi, Le gare generose, and L'incognita perseguitata 309

Works Cited 313

Index 323

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Hunter is Professor of Music at Bowdoin College. She is the editor, with James Webster, of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna.