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The Secular Commedia

- Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music

About The Secular Commedia

Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners did, this book shows that this familiar music is built on a set of mimetic associations drawn from conventional modes of depicting character and emotion in opera buffa.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780520274075
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 256
  • Published:
  • June 6, 2014
  • Dimensions:
  • 158x230x21 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 532 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: December 8, 2024

Description of The Secular Commedia

Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners did, this book shows that this familiar music is built on a set of mimetic associations drawn from conventional modes of depicting character and emotion in opera buffa.

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