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- catalog abstract "While at work on The Abduction from the Seraglio, Mozart posed for himself the great aesthetic conundrum of opera: how does drama become music? Reflecting, in a letter to his father, on the angry outburst of his operatic villain Osmin, he wrote, "Just as a man in such a towering rage oversteps all the bounds of order, moderation and propriety and completely forgets himself, so must the music too forget itself." And yet, as Mozart went on to say, unpleasant emotions must not be expressed in unpleasant music. Even in depicting anger, music "must never offend the ear, but must please the hearer, or in other words must never cease to be music." In Peter Kivy's view, Mozart has here summarized the problem of opera: the transmutation of music into drama while remaining within the bounds of pure musical form. For to transgress these bounds would be to give up the game--to represent, perhaps, but not to represent in music. In pursuit of an understanding of such limits, Professor Kivy focuses on three crucial stages in operatic history--the invention of opera, Handelian opera seria, and the comic operas of Mozart. From the confrontation of philosophical theory and musical practice, he extracts an operatic "essence" that is characterized as "drama-made-music," as contrasted with "music drama." In conclusion, he compares the concept of "drama-made music" with other concepts of opera, especially Joseph Kerman's, and provides a philosophical rationale for its unique character [Publisher description].".
- catalog contributor b1953560.
- catalog created "c1988.".
- catalog date "1988".
- catalog date "c1988.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1988.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [295]-298.".
- catalog description "Ecstasy and prophecy -- The art of invention : opera as invented art -- Enter philosophy (in classical attire) -- The musical parameters -- Enter Orpheus (philosophy attending) -- Philosophy and psychology (in early modern dress) -- The irrational entertainment as rational solution -- Listening with the ear of theory -- Expanding the universe -- Form, feeling, finale -- Opera as music.".
- catalog description "While at work on The Abduction from the Seraglio, Mozart posed for himself the great aesthetic conundrum of opera: how does drama become music? Reflecting, in a letter to his father, on the angry outburst of his operatic villain Osmin, he wrote, "Just as a man in such a towering rage oversteps all the bounds of order, moderation and propriety and completely forgets himself, so must the music too forget itself." And yet, as Mozart went on to say, unpleasant emotions must not be expressed in unpleasant music. Even in depicting anger, music "must never offend the ear, but must please the hearer, or in other words must never cease to be music." In Peter Kivy's view, Mozart has here summarized the problem of opera: the transmutation of music into drama while remaining within the bounds of pure musical form. For to transgress these bounds would be to give up the game--to represent, perhaps, but not to represent in music. In pursuit of an understanding of such limits, Professor Kivy focuses on three crucial stages in operatic history--the invention of opera, Handelian opera seria, and the comic operas of Mozart. From the confrontation of philosophical theory and musical practice, he extracts an operatic "essence" that is characterized as "drama-made-music," as contrasted with "music drama." In conclusion, he compares the concept of "drama-made music" with other concepts of opera, especially Joseph Kerman's, and provides a philosophical rationale for its unique character [Publisher description].".
- catalog extent "xiii, 303 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691073244 (alk. paper) :".
- catalog issued "1988".
- catalog issued "c1988.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog subject "782/.01 19".
- catalog subject "ML3858 .K53 1988".
- catalog subject "Music Philosophy and aesthetics.".
- catalog subject "Opera.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ecstasy and prophecy -- The art of invention : opera as invented art -- Enter philosophy (in classical attire) -- The musical parameters -- Enter Orpheus (philosophy attending) -- Philosophy and psychology (in early modern dress) -- The irrational entertainment as rational solution -- Listening with the ear of theory -- Expanding the universe -- Form, feeling, finale -- Opera as music.".
- catalog title "Osmin's rage : philosophical reflections on opera, drama, and text / by Peter Kivy.".
- catalog type "text".