Osmin's Rage: Philosophical Reflections on Opera, Drama, and Text - Softcover

Kivy, Peter

 
9780801485893: Osmin's Rage: Philosophical Reflections on Opera, Drama, and Text

Synopsis

In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical―as opposed to a dramatic―necessity for opera during this period and that Mozart's Idomeneo is properly enjoyed and judged only when listeners are attuned to its seventeenth and eighteenth-century forebears.

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About the Author

Peter Kivy is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and the author of Music Alone; Authenticities; and Sound and Semblance, all from Cornell.

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Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1992
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