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Control # 1 hbl99076420
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Date 5 20190911110921.0
Fixed Data 8 160720s2016 iluag b 001 0 eng c
LC Card 10    $a 2016033174
ISBN 20    $a9780226401577$qhardcover$qalkaline paper
ISBN 20    $z9780226401607$qelectronic book
Obsolete 39    $a306931$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aICU/DLC$beng$cICU$erda$dDLC$dGCG
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
Geog. Area 43    $ae-it---
LC Call 50 00 $aML1733.2$b.W55 2016
Dewey Class 82 00 $a782.109/032$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aWilbourne, Emily,$eauthor.
Title 245 10 $aSeventeenth-century opera and the sound of the commedia dell'arte /$cEmily Wilbourne.
Title:Varint 246 $a17th century opera and the sound of the commedia dell'arte
Title:Varint 246 $aXVII century opera and the sound of the commedia dell'arte
Imprint 260    $aChicago :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c2016.
Phys Descrpt 300    $a229 pages :$billustrations, music ;$c24 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 336 336    $anotated music$bntm$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 209-224) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aIntroduction. The tragedies and comedies recited by the Zanni -- The commedia dell'arte as theater -- "Ma meglio di tutti Arianna comediante" -- The serious elements of early comic opera -- Penelope and Poppea as stock figures of the commedia dell'arte -- Conclusion. Seventeenth-century opera and the sound of the commedia dell'arte.
Abstract 520    $aIn 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.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aOpera$zItaly$y17th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aCommedia dell'arte$xHistory and criticism.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aCommedia dell'arte$xInfluence.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aCharacters and characteristics in music.