An Essay on the Opera? Saggio Sopra L'opera in Musica: Anonymous English Translation 1768: v. 120 (Studies in the History & Interpretation of Music S.) - Hardcover

Algarotti, Francesco

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773460489 ISBN 13: 9780773460485

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

This essay on opera by Francesco Algarotti is an important, but neglected treatise of eighteenth century musical aesthetics. It belongs to that movement in the arts that rejected the artificiality and formality of Baroque style and moved towards the naturalness of expression characteristic of the painting, literature, drama, fashion, and gardening of the latter part of that century.

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Review:

"This work has not been readily available in English for a considerable time and a new edition will be of great assistance to all students and scholars of the period." - Professor Julian Rushton, University of Leeds"

About the Author:

Robin Burgess is Director of the Westminster Cathedral Centre for Spirituality.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0773460489
• ISBN 13: 9780773460485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 148
• Editor: Burgess Robin