| W. A. Mozart: Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail Contributor(s): Bauman, Thomas (Author), Thomas, Bauman (Author), Wagner, Richard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521310601 ISBN-13: 9780521310604 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $24.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1988 Annotation: This addition to the Cambridge Opera Handbooks series is also the first full-length study of Mozart's Die Entf??hrung aus dem Serail. It aims to familiarize the reader with all aspect of the work: Mozart's writing of the opera and its literary antecedents, its plot, its musical structure, its reception and performance history. The reader will find much that is new in Thomas Bauman's study. He discusses the opera in relation to other Oriental operas, in the light of eighteenth-centruy apprehensions of the East, and as an attempt to reconcile the conventions of German opera in the early 1780s with Viennese taste and Mozart's own maturing operatic aesthetic. The text is well illustrated with pictures and music examples and a full discography lists the available recordings of the opera. This will be essential reading for all who have an interest in Mozart's operas, whether as student, scholar or opera-lover. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Music - Music | Genres & Styles - Opera |
| Dewey: 782.109 |
| LCCN: 87010326 |
| Series: Cambridge Opera Handbooks |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.4" W x 8.41" (0.44 lbs) 156 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This addition to the Cambridge Opera Handbooks series is also the first full-length study of Mozart's Die Entf hrung aus dem Serail. It aims to familiarize the reader with all aspect of the work: Mozart's writing of the opera and its literary antecedents, its plot, its musical structure, its reception and performance history. The reader will find much that is new in Thomas Bauman's study. He discusses the opera in relation to other Oriental operas, in the light of eighteenth-centruy apprehensions of the East, and as an attempt to reconcile the conventions of German opera in the early 1780s with Viennese taste and Mozart's own maturing operatic aesthetic. The text is well illustrated with pictures and music examples and a full discography lists the available recordings of the opera. This will be essential reading for all who have an interest in Mozart's operas, whether as student, scholar or opera-lover. |