The culture of opera buffa in Mozart's Vienna [electronic resource] : a poetics of entertainment / Mary Hunter.
Mozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now-popular operas has received little critical attention. In this book, Mary Hunter offers a sweeping, synthetic view of oper...
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Opera Buffa as Entertainment. Ch. 1. Opera Buffa as Sheer Pleasure. Ch. 2. Opera Buffa's Conservative Frameworks. Ch. 3. Opera Buffa's Social Reversals
- pt. 2. The Closed Musical Numbers of Opera Buffa and Their Social Implications. Ch. 4. Arias: Some Issues. Ch. 5. Class and Gender in Arias: Five Aria Types. Ch. 6. Ensembles. Ch. 7. Beginning and Ending Together: Introduzioni and Finales
- pt. 3. Cosi Fan Tutte le Opere? A Masterwork in Context. Ch. 8. Cosi fan tutte in Conversation. Ch. 9. Cosi fan tutte and Convention. App. 1. Operas Consulted
- App. 2. Musical Forms in Opera Buffa Arias
- App. 3. Plot Summaries for I finti eredi, Le gare generose, and L'incognita perseguitata.