Osmin's Rage : Philosophical Reflections on Opera, Drama, and Text / Peter Kivy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kivy, Peter, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Opera.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 317 p. :) ill., music ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface to the Cornell Paperbacks Edition

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I: POSING THE PROBLEM

I. Ecstasy and prophecy

II. The art of invention: opera as invented art

III. Enter Philosophy (in Classical attire)

IV. The musical parameters

V. Enter Orpheus (Philosophy attending)

PART II: SOLVING THE PROBLEM

VI. Philosophy and Psychology (in early modern dress)

VII. The irrational entertainment as rational solution

VIII. Listening with the ear of theory

IX. Expanding universe

X. Form, feeling, finale

XI. Opera as music

XII. Happy endings

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Originally published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1988.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-312) and index.

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ISBN:

9781501727405

1501727400

OCLC:

1132229522