Title:
Magic flutes & enchanted forests : the supernatural in eighteenth-century musical theater / David J. Buch.
Author:
Buch, David J., 1950-
Publication Information:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Call Number:
ML1720.3 .B83 2008
Abstract:
Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets and plays with supernatural themes, this book argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of 18th-century musical theatre and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them.
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ISBN:
9780226078090
9780226078106
Physical Description:
xxvii, 450 p. : ill. (some col.), music ; 26 cm.
Contents:
L'Académie royale de musique -- Opéra-comique -- Italian serious genres -- Italian comic genres -- German musical theater -- The supernatural in the operas of Mozart.
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