Author : Reinhard Strohm
Release : 1997-01-01
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 544/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dramma Per Musica by : Reinhard Strohm
Download or read book Dramma Per Musica written by Reinhard Strohm. This book was released on 1997-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Dramma per musica', the most usual term for Italian serious opera from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, was a modern, enlightened form of theater that presented a unified, artistically designed, dramatic enactment of human stories, expressed by the voice and underscored by the orchestra. This book illustrates the diversity of this baroque art form and explains how it has given us opera as we know it.