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Full Description
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.
Contents
Contents: An Essay on the Opera: Edition of 1755 - An Essay on the Opera: Edition of 1763 - Of the form, argument or business of an opera - On the musical composition for operas - On the recitative and singing in operas - On the dances - On scenery, dress, etc. - On the structure of theatres - Aeneas in Troy - Iphigenia in Aulis.