Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice
  Acknowledgments
  Editorial Procedure
  Abbreviations

  Introduction
 collapse section1— Far recitare un'opera a Venezia :  Origins and Sources
 •Venetian Foundations
 •Monteverdi in the Wings
 •Orfeo and Poppea
 •The Documents of a History
 collapse section2— Dramma per musica :  The Question of Genre
 •The Accademia degli Incogniti
 •Music and Drama
 •Dramatic Structure: The Unities
 •Division into Acts
 •Chorus
 •Modern Taste and Ethics
 •Subject Matter
 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
 collapse section5— All'immortalità del nome di Venetia :  The Serenissima on Stage
 •The Myth of Venice
 •The Reality of Venice
 collapse section6— La nausea di chi ascolta :  The Consequences of Success
 •Making Histories
 •Giovanni Faustini, "Librettist"
 •Faustini's Heirs
 •Marco Faustini, Impresario
 •Marco's Guerra dei teatri
 collapse section7— I compositori scenici :  Librettist and Composer
 •Collaborative Talents
 •Librettists' Tribulations
 •Composers' Obligations
 collapse section8— I più canori cigni e le suavissime sirene :  The Singers
 •The Wages of Singing
 •The Prima Donna
 •Primi uomini ed altre
 •Singing and/or Acting
 collapse section9— Gran dicerie e canzonette :  Recitative and Aria
 •The Florentine Background
 •Venetian Conservatism
 •Monteverdi and His Collaborators
 •Busenello and Cavalli
 •Cavalli and Faustini
 •Cavalli and Cicognini
 •Cicognini's Legacy
 collapse section10— Il diletto :  Aria, Drama, and the Emergence of Formal Conventions
 collapse sectionThe Bipartite Aria
 •The Exit Convention and the Bipartite Aria
 collapse sectionTripartite Forms
 •Refrain in Recitative
 •Da Capo Refrain Arias
 •Coherence in Da Capo and Da Capo Refrain Arias
 •Contrast in Da Capo Forms
 •Static Da Capo Arias
 collapse section11— Le convenienze teatrali :  The Conventions of Dramma Per Musica
 •The Comic Aria
 •The Trumpet Aria
 •The Music Scene
 •The Love Duet
 •Sleep
 •Invocation
 •Madness
 collapse section12— Il lamento :  The Fusion of Music and Drama
 •The Recitative Model
 •The Strophic Lament
 •The Descending Tetrachord: An Emblem of Lament
 •The Lament Aria: Variations on a Theme
 collapse section13— Il ritorno d'Orfeo :  The Decline of a Tradition
 •Il volgo tumultuario
 •In Defense of Decorum
 •Ivanovich's History and Criticism
 •Tradition and Revival

  Appendix I—  Librettos
  Appendix II—  Treatises, Critical and Historical Accounts
 collapse sectionAppendix III—  Correspondence and Documents
 •A—  Venice, Archivio di Stato:  Scuola grande di San Marco
 •B—  Hannover, Staatsarchiv:  Aktes-Korrespondenzen italienischer Kardinäle und anderer Personen, besonders Italiener an Herzog Johann Friedrich
 •C—  Venice, Biblioteca nazionale marciana:  Avvisi
  Bibliography
  Musical Examples
 collapse sectionIndex
 •A
 •B
 •C
 •D
 •E
 •F
 •G
 •H
 •I
 •K
 •L
 •M
 •N
 •O
 •P
 •Q
 •R
 •S
 •T
 •U
 •V
 •W
 •X
 •Z
collapse section Collapse All | Expand All expand section