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Author Buch, David J., 1950-

Title Magic flutes & enchanted forests : the supernatural in eighteenth-century musical theater / David J. Buch
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008

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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
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Subject Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Zauberflöte.
SUBJECT Zauberflöte (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus) fast
Subject Musical theater -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Supernatural in musical theater.
Music and magic.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Opera.
Music and magic
Musical theater
Supernatural in musical theater
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008010681
ISBN 9780226078113
0226078116
0226078094
9780226078090
0226078108
9780226078106
9786612239434
6612239433
Other Titles Magic flutes and enchanted forests