Secular commedia, the: comic mimesis in late eighteenth-century music
Auteur :
Allanbrook, Wye Jamison
Éditeur :
University of California Press
ISBN :
9780520274075
Date de publication :
7 juin 2014
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,3 cm
Poids :
499 g
Format :
Cloth over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners did, this book shows that this familiar music is built on a set of mimetic associations drawn from conventional modes of depicting character and emotion in opera buffa.