Author: Carlo Blasis
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Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Author: David J. Buch
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226078116
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 483

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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 Italian mainstream. Considering prominent compositions by Gluck, Rameau, and Haydn, as well as many seminal contributions by lesser-known artists, Buch locates the origins of these magical elements in such historical sources as ancient mythology, European fairy tales, the Arabian Nights, and the occult. He concludes with a brilliant excavation of the supernatural roots of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, building a new foundation for our understanding of the magical themes that proliferated in Mozart’s wake.

Author: Library of Congress. Music Division
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1196

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Author: Peter Vassallo
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349174556
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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Author: Oscar George Theodore Sonneck
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Author: Library of Congress. Music Division
Publisher:
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Category : Librettos
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: Ralph J. Coffman
Publisher: Hall Reference Books
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: Marian Hannah Winter
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Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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