General Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art, Opera - General & Miscellaneous, Aesthetics of Music
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Overview
In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical-as opposed to a dramatic-necessity for opera during this period and that Mozart's Idomeneo is properly enjoyed and judged only when listeners are attuned to its seventeenth and eighteenth-century forebears.
Book Details
Published
July 1, 1992
Publisher
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1988.
Pages
320
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780691073248