An essay on the opera

• Verfasst von: Algarotti, Francesco [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: An essay on the opera
• Mitwirkende: Burgess, Robin [HerausgeberIn]
• Institutionen: Peter Lang Ltd. [Verlag]
• Werktitel: Saggio sopra l'opera in musica
• Paralleltitel: Saggio sopra l'opera in musica
• Paralleltitelzusatz: the editions of 1755 and 1763
• Verf.angabe: Francesco Algarotti ; edited with notes and introduction by Robin Burgess
• Verlagsort: Oxford ; Bern ; Berlin ; Wien
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: [2022]
• Umfang: xxvi, 148 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Peter Lang Prompt
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-80079-505-1
• ISBN: 1-80079-505-X
• Bestellnr.: 079505
• Schlagwörter: (g)Italien / (s)Oper / (s)Musiktheorie / (z)Geschichte 1755-1763
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712-1764: Essay on the opera. - Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2022 |(DLC)2021038056
• K10plus-PPN: 1766070442

Abstract

"This book is the first translation into the English language of a comprehensive study of opera and its constituent parts by an accomplished writer of the Eighteenth Century. Francesco Algarotti was concerned with developing opera as drama and a move away from the elaborate formality of the Baroque to a more naturalistic style. The Essay in its original Italian had considerable influence on the reform opera of Christoph Willibald Gluck"--