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Author : Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
Release : 2009
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 04X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cosi by : Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
Download or read book Cosi written by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most respected, authoritative study guide on Cosi is written by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg who is a published playwright and author of short fiction and teaches English at the University of Tasmania. She wrote the Insight Text Guide on The Secret River which was the subject of her Masters thesis.
Author : Bruce Alan Brown
Release : 1995-11-24
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 356/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis W. A. Mozart: Così Fan Tutte by : Bruce Alan Brown
Download or read book W. A. Mozart: Così Fan Tutte written by Bruce Alan Brown. This book was released on 1995-11-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once the most light-hearted and disturbing of Mozart and Da Ponte's Italian comic works, the opera has provoked widely differing reactions from listeners for more than two centuries. This study provides a detailed account of the libretto's complex origins in myth and Italian literary classics.
Author : Ian Woodfield
Release : 2008
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 065/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mozart's Così Fan Tutte by : Ian Woodfield
Download or read book Mozart's Così Fan Tutte written by Ian Woodfield. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking new approach proposes answers to many of the opera's unresolved questions.
Author : Charles Ford
Release : 2016-04-29
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 566/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte by : Charles Ford
Download or read book Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte written by Charles Ford. This book was released on 2016-04-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment explains how Mozart's music for Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte 'sounds' the intentions of Da Ponte's characters and their relationships with one another. Mozart, by way of the infinitely generative and beautiful logic of the sonata principle, did not merely interpret Da Ponte's characterizations but lent them temporal, musical forms. Charles Ford's analytic interpretation of these musical forms concerns processes and structures in detail and at medium- to long-term levels. He addresses the music of a wide range of arias and ensembles, and develops original ways to interpret the two largely overlooked operatic genres of secco recitative and finales. Moreover, Ford presents a new method by which to relate musical details directly to philosophical concepts, and thereby, the music of the operas to the inwardly contradictory thinking of the European Enlightenment. This involves close readings of late eighteenth-century understandings of 'man' and nature, self and other, morality and transgression, and gendered identities and sexuality, with particular reference to contemporary writers, especially Goethe, Kant, Laclos, Rousseau, Sade, Schiller, Sterne and Wollstonecraft. The concluding discussion of the implied futures of the operas argues that their divided sexualities, which are those of the Enlightenment as a whole, have come to form our own unquestioned assumptions about gender differences and sexuality. This, along with the elegant and eloquent precision of Mozart's music, is why Figaro, Giovanni and Così still maintain their vital immediacy for audiences today.
