Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice

  Acknowledgments
  Editorial Procedure
  Abbreviations

  Introduction
 expand section1— Far recitare un'opera a Venezia :  Origins and Sources
 expand section2— Dramma per musica :  The Question of Genre
 collapse section3— Da rappresentare in musica :  The Rise of Commercial Opera
 The Beginning of Competition
 The Scenario and the Libretto
 The Teatro Novissimo
  4— La finta pazza :  Mirror of an Audience
 expand section5— All'immortalità del nome di Venetia :  The Serenissima on Stage
 expand section6— La nausea di chi ascolta :  The Consequences of Success
 expand section7— I compositori scenici :  Librettist and Composer
 expand section8— I più canori cigni e le suavissime sirene :  The Singers
 expand section9— Gran dicerie e canzonette :  Recitative and Aria
 expand section10— Il diletto :  Aria, Drama, and the Emergence of Formal Conventions
 expand section11— Le convenienze teatrali :  The Conventions of Dramma Per Musica
 expand section12— Il lamento :  The Fusion of Music and Drama
 expand section13— Il ritorno d'Orfeo :  The Decline of a Tradition

  Appendix I—  Librettos
  Appendix II—  Treatises, Critical and Historical Accounts
 expand sectionAppendix III—  Correspondence and Documents
  Bibliography
  Musical Examples
 expand sectionIndex

collapse section Collapse All | Expand All expand section