Description: Further DetailsTitle: Tommaso Traetta and the Fusion of Italian and French Opera in ParmaCondition: NewEAN: 9781680532227ISBN: 9781680532227Publisher: Academica PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/30/2022Description: In 1759 the court of the Italian Duchy of Parma adopted the inspiration of cultural creators who recommended a reform of Italian opera along French lines. These writers favored combining Italian-style music with the wider range of musical genres and scenic variety of French opera. As the prize-winning music critic and commentator George W. Loomis shows in this groundbreaking volume, the young composer Tommaso Traetta was engaged to create new operas responding to these demands.As Loomis deftly demonstrates, Traetta’s operas were largely oriented toward the formal aria, a byproduct of making Italian music an essential component of this cross-cultural fusion. Nevertheless, they were strikingly innovative in their use of chorus, integrated dance, and accompanied recitative. Structurally, the operas reflect the French distinction between scenes of action and divertissements. After a brief flowering in the 1760s, the project was abandoned, primarily for lack of interest, but Traetta’s Parma operas deserve a previously unrecognized place in the history of Western music for their stimulation of opera seria in Italy and beyond. This included the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose genre-defining Idomeneo (1781) proved a turning point in the development of opera.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 633gAuthor: George W. Loomis, George W. Loomis (author)Genre: Music Dance & TheatreTopic: HistoryISBN-10: 1680532227Type: StylesRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Tommaso Traetta and the Fusion of Italian and French Opera in Par
Title: Tommaso Traetta and the Fusion of Italian and French Opera in Par
EAN: 9781680532227
ISBN: 9781680532227
Release Date: 10/30/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Weight: 633g
ISBN-10: 1680532227
Type: Styles
Book Title: Tommaso Traetta and the Fusion of Italian and French Opera in PARMA
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Academica Press
Topic: Europe / Italy, General, Genres & Styles / Opera
Publication Year: 2022
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Music, Performing Arts, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: George W. Loomis
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
