Description: Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia Dell'Arte, Hardcover by Wilbourne, Emily, ISBN 022640157X, ISBN-13 9780226401577, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell'arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages of Venice more than fifty years later. Wilbourne considers a series of case studies structured around the most important and widely explored operas of the period: Monteverdi's lost L'Arianna, as well as his Il Ritorno d'Ulisse and L'incoronazione di Poppea; Mazzochi and Marazzoli's L'Egisto, ovvero Chi soffre speri; and Cavalli's L'Ormindo and L'Artemisia. As she demonstrates, the sound-in-performance aspect of commedia dell'arte theater specifically, the use of dialect and verbal play produced an audience that was accustomed to listening to sonic content rather than simply the literal meaning of spoken words. This, Wilbourne suggests, shaped the musical vocabularies of early opera and facilitated a musicalization of Italian theater. Highlighting productive ties between the two worlds, from the audiences and venues to the actors and singers, this work brilliantly shows how the sound of commedia performance ultimately underwrote the success of opera as a genre.
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Book Title: Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia Dell'Arte
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia Dell'arte
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: History & Criticism, Europe / Italy, Genres & Styles / Opera
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.2 Oz
Author: Emily Wilbourne
Item Length: 0.9 in
Subject Area: Music, History
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
