Osmin's Rage: Philosophical Reflections on Opera, Drama, and Text, with a New Final Chapter

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Cornell University Press, 1999 - 317 páginas

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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Ecstasy and prophecy
3
opera as invented
16
Enter Philosophy in Classical attire
28
The musical parameters
49
Enter Orpheus Philosophy attending
62
Philosophy and Psychology in early modern dress
300
Happy endings
308
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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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