| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 450 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
L'Académie royale de musique -- Opéra-comique -- Italian serious genres -- Italian comic genres -- German musical theater -- The supernatural in the operas of Mozart |
| Summary |
Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theatre and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them. David J. Buch reveals that despite-and even because of-their fundamental irrationality, fantastic and exotic themes acquired extraordinary force and popularity during the period, pervading theatrical works with music in the French, German, and Italian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-419) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Zauberflöte.
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| SUBJECT |
Zauberflöte (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus) fast |
| Subject |
Musical theater -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
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Supernatural in musical theater.
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Music and magic.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Opera.
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Music and magic
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Musical theater
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Supernatural in musical theater
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008010681 |
| ISBN |
9780226078113 |
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0226078116 |
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0226078094 |
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9780226078090 |
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0226078108 |
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9780226078106 |
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9786612239434 |
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6612239433 |
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