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- catalog contributor b1151645.
- catalog created "c1981.".
- catalog date "1981".
- catalog date "c1981.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1981.".
- catalog description "1. Defining opera : Drama as the essence of opera ; A totality of staged words and music -- 2. The philosophical ingredient : The long arm of neoplatonism ; The start of renaissance neoplatonism ; Ficino's platonic inwardness -- 3. The poetical ingredient : Neoplatonic poetry in Italy ; Pastoral drama ; Allegory and symbolism -- 4. The musical ingredient : Music and drama ; Modulation and monody -- 5. The threshold : Neoplatonic spectacles in Italy ; A union of the arts in France ; Circe: a French court ballet ; Conti's contemporary explanation ; Bardi's Florentine interludes -- 6. The reciting style : Declamation the central problem ; Sound and sense in poetry ; Poetry in music ; groups and personalities at Florence ; The start of the reciting style ; Varieties of the reciting style -- 7. The modern style : The reciting style as modern style ; The second practice ; The emulating style ; A blend of styles in early opera -- 8. Across the threshold : Three pastorals near to opera ; Dafne: the earliest opera ; Cavalieri's contribution ; Peri's achievement ; Caccini's exaggerated claims ; Doni's balanced summary -- 9. Opera achieved : The structure of Dafne ; The story of Dafne ; The neoplatonic images -- 10. Opera comes into fashion ; Borderline opera ; The genre arrives ; A Florentine wedding ; Opera thereafter taken for granted -- 11. Monteverdi and his 'orfeo' : From Florence to Mantua ; And opening Toccata ; A neoplatonic personification ; Act I: a pastoral idyll ; A dramatic irony ; Act II: sudden catastrophe ; The mythology of snakes ; Act III: the descent ; Act IV: the underworld ; The prohibition disobeyed ; Act V: immortality ; The neoplatonic ending".
- catalog description "12. Consolidation : The human touch ; Neoplatonic opera in decline ; Initiatives outside Italy -- 13. Rome and Venice compared ; Roman spectacle ; Neoplatonism again ; Roman opera falls back ; Venetian opera takes up ; Popular opera at Venice -- 14. Monteverdi at Venice : Monteverdi's later output ; Gods and men ; The familiar Homeric scenario unfolds ; Monteverdi's last opera ; What happens to the history ; The fairy-tale beneath the history -- 15. The Venetian succession : The end of the beginning ; Cavalli as successor ; A pioneering opera of intrigue ; Relaxing the craftsmanship ; Comedy and pathos ; Symptoms of transition -- 16. The Italian sequel : Italian opera on the change ; Mid-baroque opera ; Chamber cantata in advance of opera ; Transition accelerates -- 17. The approach to French opera : French court ballet ; The Italian influence ; The anti-Italian reaction -- 18. The rise of French opera : Two failed attempts ; Lully successful ; Lully and Quinault ; The French Academy ; The French convention -- 19 Love and glory : A chivalric fantasy ; A dark forest of misunderstanding ; A dark prison of the spirit ; The answering glow.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 345-361.".
- catalog extent "399 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Rise of opera.".
- catalog identifier "0684171651 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Rise of opera.".
- catalog issued "1981".
- catalog issued "c1981.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : C. Scribner's Sons,".
- catalog relation "Rise of opera.".
- catalog subject "782.1/09/032 19".
- catalog subject "ML1700 .D67".
- catalog subject "Opera.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Defining opera : Drama as the essence of opera ; A totality of staged words and music -- 2. The philosophical ingredient : The long arm of neoplatonism ; The start of renaissance neoplatonism ; Ficino's platonic inwardness -- 3. The poetical ingredient : Neoplatonic poetry in Italy ; Pastoral drama ; Allegory and symbolism -- 4. The musical ingredient : Music and drama ; Modulation and monody -- 5. The threshold : Neoplatonic spectacles in Italy ; A union of the arts in France ; Circe: a French court ballet ; Conti's contemporary explanation ; Bardi's Florentine interludes -- 6. The reciting style : Declamation the central problem ; Sound and sense in poetry ; Poetry in music ; groups and personalities at Florence ; The start of the reciting style ; Varieties of the reciting style -- 7. The modern style : The reciting style as modern style ; The second practice ; The emulating style ; A blend of styles in early opera -- 8. Across the threshold : Three pastorals near to opera ; Dafne: the earliest opera ; Cavalieri's contribution ; Peri's achievement ; Caccini's exaggerated claims ; Doni's balanced summary -- 9. Opera achieved : The structure of Dafne ; The story of Dafne ; The neoplatonic images -- 10. Opera comes into fashion ; Borderline opera ; The genre arrives ; A Florentine wedding ; Opera thereafter taken for granted -- 11. Monteverdi and his 'orfeo' : From Florence to Mantua ; And opening Toccata ; A neoplatonic personification ; Act I: a pastoral idyll ; A dramatic irony ; Act II: sudden catastrophe ; The mythology of snakes ; Act III: the descent ; Act IV: the underworld ; The prohibition disobeyed ; Act V: immortality ; The neoplatonic ending".
- catalog tableOfContents "12. Consolidation : The human touch ; Neoplatonic opera in decline ; Initiatives outside Italy -- 13. Rome and Venice compared ; Roman spectacle ; Neoplatonism again ; Roman opera falls back ; Venetian opera takes up ; Popular opera at Venice -- 14. Monteverdi at Venice : Monteverdi's later output ; Gods and men ; The familiar Homeric scenario unfolds ; Monteverdi's last opera ; What happens to the history ; The fairy-tale beneath the history -- 15. The Venetian succession : The end of the beginning ; Cavalli as successor ; A pioneering opera of intrigue ; Relaxing the craftsmanship ; Comedy and pathos ; Symptoms of transition -- 16. The Italian sequel : Italian opera on the change ; Mid-baroque opera ; Chamber cantata in advance of opera ; Transition accelerates -- 17. The approach to French opera : French court ballet ; The Italian influence ; The anti-Italian reaction -- 18. The rise of French opera : Two failed attempts ; Lully successful ; Lully and Quinault ; The French Academy ; The French convention -- 19 Love and glory : A chivalric fantasy ; A dark forest of misunderstanding ; A dark prison of the spirit ; The answering glow.".
- catalog title "The rise of opera / Robert Donington.".
- catalog type "text".