Description
| Product ID: | 9780801485893 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Osmin's Rage |
| Subtitle: | Philosophical Reflections on Opera, Drama, and Text |
| Authors: | Author: Peter Kivy |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Theory of music and musicology, Theory of music & musicology, Opera, Philosophy: aesthetics, Opera, Philosophy: aesthetics |
| Description: | 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... 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Cornell University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cornell University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1999-03-30 |