Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice

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Acknowledgments

Editorial Procedure

Abbreviations

Introduction

1— Far recitare un'opera a Venezia :  Origins and Sources

2— Dramma per musica :  The Question of Genre

3— Da rappresentare in musica :  The Rise of Commercial Opera

4— La finta pazza :  Mirror of an Audience

5— All'immortalità del nome di Venetia :  The Serenissima on Stage

6— La nausea di chi ascolta :  The Consequences of Success

7— I compositori scenici :  Librettist and Composer

8— I più canori cigni e le suavissime sirene :  The Singers

9— Gran dicerie e canzonette :  Recitative and Aria

10— Il diletto :  Aria, Drama, and the Emergence of Formal Conventions

11— Le convenienze teatrali :  The Conventions of Dramma Per Musica

12— Il lamento :  The Fusion of Music and Drama

13— Il ritorno d'Orfeo :  The Decline of a Tradition

Appendix I—  Librettos

Appendix II—  Treatises, Critical and Historical Accounts

Appendix III—  Correspondence and Documents

Bibliography

Musical Examples

Index

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