Opera and the Enlightenment
- Editor: Bauman, Thomas
- Editor: McClymonds, Marita Petzoldt
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Contents
- List of plates; Library abbreviations;
- Introduction Thomas Bauman;
- Part I . Prologue:
- 1. Pastoral and musical magic in the birth of opera Gary Tomlinson;
- Part II . Opera and the Visual Arts:
- 2. Moralizing at the tomb: Poussin's Arcadian shepherds in eighteenth-century England and Germany Thomas Bauman;
- 3. Dr Burney, the bear, and the knight: E. F. Burney's Amateurs of Tye-Wig Music Kerry S. Grant;
- 4. New light(s) on Weber's Wolf's Glen scene Anthony Newcomb;
- Part III . Serious Opera:
- 5. Sinfonia and drama in early eighteenth-century opera seria Reinhard Strohm;
- 6. The dramatic role of the chorus in French opera: evidence for the use of gesture, 1670-1770 Mary Cyr;
- 7. Transforming opera seria: Verazi's innovations and their impact on opera in Italy Marita Petzoldt McClymonds;
- Part IV . Handel and Gluck:
- 8. Handel's Serse Winton Dean;
- 9. The 'sweet song' in Demofoonte: a Gluck borrowing from Handel John H. Roberts;
- 10. Zephire et Flore: a 'galant' early ballet by Angiolini and Gluck Bruce Alan Brown;
- 11. Gluck's Iphigenia operas: sources and strategies Julie E. Cumming;
- Part V . Concerning Mozart:
- 12. The 'storm' music of Beaumarchais' Barbier de Seville Walter E. Rex;
- 13. On Don Giovanni, No. 2 Joseph Kerman;
- 14. Leopold II, Mozart, and the return to a Golden Age John A. Rice;
- Part VI . Epilogue:
- 15. From fairy tale to opera in four moves (not so simple) Richard Taruskin; Index.