Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests The Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century Musical Theater

Name: Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests The Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century Musical Theater
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ISBN: 9780226078090

ISBN-10: 0226078094

ISBN-13: 9780226078090

Edition: 2008

Authors: David J. Buch, David Joseph Buch

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Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes,Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forestsargues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them. David J. Buch reveals that despite-and perhaps even because of-their fundamental irrationality, fantastic and exotic themes acquired extraordinary force and popularity during the period, pervading theatrical works with music in the French, German, and Italian mainstream. Considering prominent compositions by Gluck, Rameau, and Haydn, as well as many…

Book details

List price: $68.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/30/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 0.71" wide x 1.06" long x 0.13" tall
Weight: 2.310
Language: English



Contents


List of Illustrations


Preface


Abbreviations


Introduction Precedents & Sources of Magic & the “Marvelous”



L’Acadï¿½mie Royale de Musique



Opï¿½ra-comique



Italian Serious Genres



Italian Comic Genres



German Musical Theater



The Supernatural in the Operas of Mozart Postscript The Significance & Influence of Supernatural Topics



Chronological List of Operas, Ballets, Comï¿½dies, Fï¿½eries, Pantomimes & Other Plays with Magic & Supernatural Content, 1699–1791



Selected Italian Circe, Medea & Orpheus Operas, 1700–1791



Operas Based on Ariosto & Tasso, 1700–1791



Some Eighteenth-Century Italian Don Juan Settings



Chronological List of German Theatrical Works with Magic & Supernatural Content, 1728–92


Bibliography


Index