Magic flutes & enchanted forests: the supernatural in eighteenth-century musical theater
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1. Verfasser: Buch, David J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press ©2008
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-419) and index
L'Académie royale de musique -- Opéra-comique -- Italian serious genres -- Italian comic genres -- German musical theater -- The supernatural in the operas of Mozart
Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them. David J. Buch reveals that despite-and perhaps even because of-their fundamental irrationality, fantastic and exotic themes acquired extraordinary force and popularity during the period, pervading theatrical works with music in the French, German, and It
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 450 pages)
ISBN:0226078116
9780226078113

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