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Fetonte / Pietro Domenico Paradies ; edited by Michael Burden.
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Paradies, Pietro Domenico, 1707-1791, composer.
- Series:
- Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.
- Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; v. 242.
- Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573
- Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 242
- Standardized Title:
- Fetonte
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas--Scores.
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Operas.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 score (lvi, 483 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates)) : facsimiles.
- monochrome
- facsimile
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2025.
- Language Note:
- Italian words; also printed separately as text with English translation.
- Staff notation.
- Summary:
- "Fetonte was set by the composer Domenico Paradies for the London Italian opera season of 1746-47. The season was a fascinating and adventurous one, managed by the impresario Francesco Vanneschi, who is also credited with authoring the opera's text. Fetonte was the season's standout work; Vanneschi's libretto nodded to the structures of seventeenth-century French opera with integrated dance and action, the type of drama that would be cited in the discourse of later "opera reform" as an ideal way of dealing with abuses of composition and performance. These ideas were outlined in John Lockman's A Discourse on the Operas, published in Fetonte's libretto; he argued the case for a greater integration of all opera's elements and for making "no contemptible defense of the musical drama." Fetonte is an attempted realization of Lockman's ideals and an audacious move by Vanneschi to introduce a new genre of music theatre." -- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Opera in 3 acts.
- Preface and critical report in English.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed 9 June 2025).
- ISBN:
- 1-9872-0917-6
- OCLC:
- 1523657121
- Publisher Number:
- B242 A-R Editions, Inc. (score)
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