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The Secular Commedia: Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music
Wye Jamison Allanbrook
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Description for The Secular Commedia: Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music
Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Smart, Mary Ann; Taruskin, Richard. Series: Ernest Bloch Lectures. Num Pages: 256 pages, 24 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
Wye Jamison Allanbrook's The Secular Commedia is a stimulating and original rethinking of the music of the late eighteenth century. Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners did, Allanbrook 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. Allanbrook mines a rich trove of writings by eighteenth-century philosophers and music theorists to show that vocal music was considered aesthetically superior to instrumental music and that listeners easily perceived the theatrical tropes ... Read more
Wye Jamison Allanbrook's The Secular Commedia is a stimulating and original rethinking of the music of the late eighteenth century. Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners did, Allanbrook 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. Allanbrook mines a rich trove of writings by eighteenth-century philosophers and music theorists to show that vocal music was considered aesthetically superior to instrumental music and that listeners easily perceived the theatrical tropes ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Ernest Bloch Lectures
Condition
New
Weight
665g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520274075
SKU
V9780520274075
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About Wye Jamison Allanbrook
Wye Jamison Allanbrook was Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart. Mary Ann Smart is Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera. Richard Taruskin is Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of ... Read more
Reviews for The Secular Commedia: Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music
"Consistently accessible, quick-witted and amusing ... One must be grateful to Smart and Taruskin for asserting the virtues of scholarly community by taking up Wendy Allanbrook's unfinished opus and delivering it to the world."
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