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Sentimental opera : questions of genre in the age of bourgeois drama / Stefano Castelvecchi

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Castelvecchi, Stefano, 1960-
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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1 online resource (300 pages).
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Contents
Cover; Contents; Figures; Music examples; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on editorial method; A prologue on genre; Against genre; How genres exist; Families; The critic's genre; 1 Pamela goes to the opera; The third genre; Painful delights: Richardson's Pamela; Interiors: Goldoni's La Pamela; The most perfect of opere buffe: Goldoni and Piccinni's La buona figliuola; 2 The emergence of bourgeois drama; Indecorous liaisons; Of tales of private woe, and poems in prose; Comédie larmoyante, tragédie bourgeoise; Why 'bourgeois'?; 3 The codification of bourgeois drama; Diderot's genre moyen., TableauxDiderotians; Mixed, median, monstrous; 4 Opera as drame; Mercier the dramaturge; On 'drame' and the use of words; Two déserteurs, or virtue rewarded and virtue chastised; Three Venetian disertori; 5 Sensibility and the moral cure; Sentiment and sensibility; In the labyrinth of the 'folles par amour'; Moral cure and absorption; A salon, a lodge, a circle; 6 A sentimental opera; An epoch-making experiment; A Utopian fantasy; Sentimental settings; To listen for the sentiment; 7 Sentimental, anti-sentimental; A perpetual interplay; Figaro's family; Society and its discontents; Dissonances., and 8 AvenuesThe weeds of opera; Matters of degree; A Muse of its own; The encoding of life; The waning of sensibility; Appendix: Bartolomeo Benincasa's preface to Il disertore (1784); References; Books, articles and other literature; Eighteenth-century periodicals; Plays; Librettos; Scores; Index.
Summary
Castelvecchi presents a critical re-evaluation of the operatic genre system and the cult of sensibility in the age of Mozart.
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9780511980244 (electronic bk.)
0511980248 (electronic bk.)
9781107471757 (electronic bk.)
1107471753 (electronic bk.)
9781461945055 (electronic bk.)
1461945054 (electronic bk.)
9781107464667
9780521632140 (print)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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